We are proud to host Uhuru Phalafala in conversation with Phillippa Yaa de Villiers, Mpho Ndaba and Lwando Scott for the launch of two long-awaited books on our dearly departed teacher, Keorapetse Kgositsile. The first, Collected Works, 1969–2018 from the Broadside and Third World Press days to Beyond Words, a near 50-year journey of word-sound-power edited by Phillippa Yaa de Villiers and Uhuru Portia Phalafala. And Keorapetse Kgositsile & the Black Arts Movement Phalafala’s own pathbreaking study.
Join us Thursday, 30 January 2025 from 7pm at
Chimurenga Factory (157 Victoria Road, Woodstock, Cape Town)
or tune in to panafricanspacestation.org.za
(illustration by Medu for a concert by Gwangwa-led Shakawe feat. KK in Gaborone, circa 1982)
Check out the mix below, a sonic companion to Uhuru Phalafala’s Home is Where the Music Is, a published conversation with Keorapetse Kgositsile. This sonic documentary is a (astral) travelling with Uhuru Phalafala, Keorapetse Kgositsile, mam Miriam Makeba, bras Hugh Masekela, Jonas Gwangwa, and Kippie Moeketsi, The Jazz Epistles, Max Roach & Abbey Lincoln, Abdullah Ibrahim, Evelyn Neal, Letta Mbulu (& Caiphus Semenya), Lefifi Tladi, Pharoah Sanders, Ndikho Xaba, Festival National De La Jeunesse Nigerienne, Johnny Dyani, Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Philip Tabane & Malombo, mam Lindiwe Mabuza, Rangoato Hlasane, Bra Geoff Mphaketi, Nina Simone, The Last Poets, Gcina Mhlophe, and Earl Sweatshirt.
Dreamed by Uhuru Phalafala
with audio edits and weaving from Ben Verghese
To purchase Home is Where the Music Is in print visit the Chimurenga Factory (157 Victoria Rd, Woodstock, Cape Town) or order from our online store.
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