Episode 17 - Nduduzo Makhathini: African Rebirth and Improvisation.

In Conversation with Nduduzo Makhathini on the African Rebirth and Improvisation. Nduduzo Makhathini is a jazz musician from Umgungundlovu, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. Coming from a musical family, his love for music began at an early age. Makhathini has performed with Zim Ngqawana, Simphiwe Dana, Feya Faku, and McCoy Mrubata. Nduduzo completed his Diploma in Jazz Piano at the Durban University of Technology in 2005, and obtained a PhD in music from the University of Stellenbosch in 2023. Chapters: 00:00:00 Intro 00:00:20 Ya Laikaya: Slavery, Colonisation & What Was Broken 00:02:31 Music as Prophecy: The Tradition of Speaking Before It Happens 00:04:17 Post-Colonial Thought & the Idea of Total Erasure 00:05:36 Improvisation as Indigenous African Knowledge 00:07:34 Brokenness & Discontinuity: But Not a Death 00:09:09 Throwing the Bones: Divination as African Epistemology 00:09:53 Linguicide: The Death of a Language as a Death of a Self 00:12:05 The Postcolonial Idea & the Danger of Proclaiming Death 00:14:25 African Identity: Broken in Parts, Alive in Others 00:20:34 Jazz as a Site of African Knowledge Production 00:25:20 The Sangoma & the Musician: Overlapping Roles 00:35:35 Masters & PhD Research: What Makhathini Studies 00:40:20 Spirituality, the Ancestors & the Music That Calls Them 00:45:26 What Does Decolonisation of Sound Actually Mean? 00:55:23 African Renaissance as a Musical Project 01:00:24 What Would an African University of Sound Look Like? 01:10:21 Colonialism of the Mind: The Hardest Liberation 01:18:20 Afrofuturism, Afropessimism & the Third Way 01:22:20 Closing: The Unbroken Thread That Runs Through Everything The views expressed in this conversation are those of the participants and are shared to encourage informed discussion and critical engagement. *** Don't Forget To Share And Subscribe***