20 Jul 2024
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Award winning musician Thandiswa returns to the Artscape Theatre after her sold-out show in 2023 with music from her new album Sankofa (to be launched in May 2024
Sankofa is a Twi word from the Akan people of Ghana. It means to "go back and fetch what has been left behind." In our journeys we may lose our sense of self, our history, our will to fight. We may lose language or ways of being. Sankofa invites us to go back and fetch what has been lost so that we can return whole. Recorded in Johannesburg, Dakar, and New York, Sankofa combines archival Xhosa music, jazz and west African music. Largely developed with co-composer Tendai Shoko, it includes tracks produced by Meshell Ndegeocello a
Duration: 90Min
