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Umzila: Keeping heritage alive through art and music

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Umzila (The Legacy) is an exhibition that explores instrument-making as an artistic and archival practice through the Xhosa musical bow, uhadi. Born in Nyanga, Cape Town, Thandeka Mfinyongo is an African musician, scholar, and lecturer in African Music and Ethnomusicology at North-West University. Thandeka joins Yolanda Maartens in the OFM Art Beat to talk about her heritage as artist. Umzila is on until 11 September at the NWU Gallery in Potchefstroom.
15 Jul English South Africa Performing Arts · Visual Arts

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