Thando Hopa, model from Johannesburg
People living with albinism still face tremendous stigmatization, persecution and even murder in many African countries, including South Africa, due to traditional beliefs.
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Cassper Nyovest – Ksazobalit
https://amf.didiermary.fr/cassper-nyovest-ksazobalit/
Ksazobalit (K’Sazobalit) is a song by Cassper Nyovest in 2018, where he imagines “The Day we Take Back Our Land”.
"The rapper’s tongue-in-cheek video takes inspiration from the memes and tweets about what black South Africans will do with it when land that was stolen from them by colonialists is returned."
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AfroJazz sélection n°2 : 🇿🇦
(sur mon blog principal)
Sathima Bea Benjamin – Winnie Mandela Beloved Heroine
https://amf.didiermary.fr/sathima-bea-benjamin-winnie-mandela-beloved-heroine/
About Beloved Heroine in an interview with Carol Ann Muller in Musical Echoes:
“I wanted to write this song for Winnie [Mandela], because I absolutely identified with her,” says Benjamin. “I could feel her pain,” Benjamin writes of her subject’s “soft, gentle eyes reflecting those unshed tears”.
Winnie Nomzamo Madikizela-Mandela
26 September 1936 – 2 April 2018
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Confused Love - Billy Monama
Live at Soweto Theatre - 02/2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HLvWHBhypE
Internet Girl - Treat Him Like A Baby
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4czpckDF20s
A Cape Town band, mixing electronica, pop-rock & trap.
Sisonke Xonti – uGaba the Migration
https://amf.didiermary.fr/sisonke-xonti-ugaba-migration/
Saxophonist and composer Sisonke Xonti, winner of South Africa’s 2020 Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Jazz, released “uGaba the Migration” in 2020, that includes a four-part “Migration Suite”, exploring rural and urban identity and the perilous spiritual journey from homeland to the global village.
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Nduduzo Makhathini, Tiny Desk Concert, August 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWscjSp9B4w
More on AMF: https://amf.didiermary.fr/nduduzo-makhathini-amathambo-ikhambi/
M00tion - Brii Bass
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9LYxoJjwr8
Nakhane - Killer '25
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_3231Y795g
More music: https://amf.didiermary.fr/?s=nakhane
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Kabza De Small - Siyabonga Feat. featuring Nontokozo Mkhize and Mthunzi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lITUMwq2Cc
Samson Mthombeni & Gazankulu Girls – Miyela N’whanyana
https://amf.didiermary.fr/samson-mthombeni-gazankulu-girls/
Samson Mthombeni is a legend of Shangaan (Tsonga or Xitsonga) traditional music. Mthombeni passed away at the age of 75, in 2020.
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RIP Ismail Mohamed-Jan, aka Pops Mohamed (December 10, 1949 - December 4, 2025), was a South African multi-instrumentalist, jazz musician and producer.
https://amf.didiermary.fr/pops-mohamed-election-day-serenade/
Pops Mohamed had started his musical journey at Dorkay House, where he studied guitar and was able to hear the rehearsals of jazz legends such as saxophonist Kippie Moeketsi. Later, it became one of his meeting and rehearsal spaces. […]
#90smusic #Jazz #SoulJazz #SouthAfrica #Blaugust #Blaugust2025
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Jinji Boolin - Umdali Feat. Ovuyonke
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgJszOZzQMA
"Umdali" means "Creator."
Black Disco – Night Express
https://amf.didiermary.fr/black-disco-night-express/
2 albums with Pops Mohamed (Organ – Electric Piano) [RIP], Basil Coetzee (Flute, Tenor Sax), and Sipho Gumede (Bass), in two different styles with Black Disco and Movement in the City.
As the 1970s were drawing to a close, the epic Black Disco studio project with its signature pairing of drum machine and organ had run […]
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The Indestructible Beat of Soweto
https://amf.didiermary.fr/indestructible-beat-soweto/
The Indestructible Beat of Soweto is a compilation album released in 1985, featuring twelve tracks by artists from South Africa. The sleeve notes state that all songs are in the mbaqanga style, a guitar-based style popular at the time in the townships of Johannesburg and Durban, but the tracks actually cover four different styles, […]
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Solomon Linda & the Evening Birds – Mbube
https://amf.didiermary.fr/solomon-linda-evening-birds-mbube-lion-king/
One of Disney’s most popular songs, “The Lion Sleeps Tonight,” is a cover of the late South African performer Solomon Ntsele (Linda)‘s song “Mbube”.
Here’s the Zulu-language original by the South African performer Linda with his musical group the Evening Birds. After discovering the family of Solomon Linda, [...]
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Jazz/The African Sound
https://amf.didiermary.fr/jazz-african-sound-chris-mcgregor/
“Jazz/The African Sound” by Chris McGregor & The Castle Lager Big Band, one of the most important African records of all time, a lost global Jazz classic, and a true holy grail for collectors of Jazz and WorldJazz.
Post also includes Archie Shepp live in Stuttgart, with Brotherhood of Breath.
#60smusic #Apartheid #BrassBand #Jazz #LiveMusic #SouthAfrica #Blaugust
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Emmanuel Jal – Chaak
https://amf.didiermary.fr/emmanuel-jal-chaak-bun-xapa/
“Chaak” is a collaboration between South Sudanese artist Emmanuel Jal and South African producer and DJ, Bun Xapa. Emmanuel Jal is a former child soldier, turned international recording artist, activist and philanthropist. Bun Xapa comes from a rural township and broke through into the AfroHouse scene in 2023.
“Chaak” which means ‘Milk’ in Emmanuel’s mother tongue […]
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Dollar Brand – Zimbabwe
https://amf.didiermary.fr/dollar-brand-zimbabwe-abdullah-ibrahim/
“Zimbabwe” is the name of a composition, on the album of the same name, released by Dollar Brand / Abdullah Ibrahim for Enja Records in 1983.
The track also appears in a shorter live version on “South Africa”, a 25th Anniversary Series album for the Enja Heritage Collection (first released in 1986), that is described […]
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Vuma Levin – Antique Spoons
https://amf.didiermary.fr/vuma-levin-antique-spoons/
Promising South African guitarist and composer Vuma Levin mixes styles from his home country with Jazz, Pop and Electronics. “Antique Spoons: Chapters on Love, Loss and The Politics of Memory”, his 4th album, was released in 2020.
Born a South African and raised during the unstable interregnum years of Post-Apartheid South Africa, Guitarist Vuma Ian […]
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Bokani Dyer – Radio Sechaba
https://amf.didiermary.fr/bokani-dyer-radio-sechaba/
A multi award-winning and established artist, with a growing global reputation, Bokani Dyer’s record “Radio Sechaba” provides an intimate view into South Africa’s multifaceted people – and an opportunity for global connection through music. The album continues Dyer’s creative journey of making rich and immersive music which places him amongst the new wave of South […]
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Jonas Gwangwa – Morwa (live)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/jonas-gwangwa-morwa-live/
Trombonist, composer and cultural activist Jonas Mosa Gwangwa, who was born on 19 October 1937 in Orlando East, Johannesburg, died on 23 January 2021 in Johannesburg aged 83. A mainstream player, producer and composer of SouthAfrican Jazz, Jonas Gwangwa chose to lead the Amandla Cultural Ensemble of the African National Congress (ANC) for 10 years […]
Kippie Moeketsi – African Day
https://amf.didiermary.fr/kippie-moeketsi-african-day/
Jeremiah “Kippie” Morolong Moeketsi (1925-1983) was a South African jazz alto saxophonist, sometimes referred to as “the father of South African jazz” and as “South Africa’s Charlie Parker.” […]
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Blue Note Africa
https://amf.didiermary.fr/blue-note-africa/
In 2022, the legendary jazz label Blue Note Records and UMG Africa launched a new brand to promote African Jazz outside of the continent.
The first release, in January 2023, was an album by South African pianist and composer Nduduzo Makhathini “In The Spirit Of Ntu.” […]
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