Kaya 959 Umoya: On African Spirituality

Episode 10: The Past and the Present: Freedom and Music with Thandiswa Mazwai

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For more than two decades, singer Thandiswa Mazwai has captured, probed and illuminated our public imagination with her unyielding loyalty to an African world view, shared through her music, first as a member of Bongo Maffin and in latter years, her solo career. In our final episode of Umoya, we journey with the rebel singer in a conversation that brought her indelible spirit to the politics of freedom.
29 Aug 2019 English South Africa Religion & Spirituality · Spirituality

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