Thandiswa Mazwai : A Letter To Azania Live Show. Activist and singer Thandiswa Mazwai is set to write a musical letter to Azania which will be staged at the Lyric Theatre in Joburg on the 24th of November 2018.
As reported by Independent Online Mazwai will use her music to illustrate her early politicisation and visions of Azania.
“I think that for the suffering black masses, Azania has always represented a kind of paradise. It was the kind of holy land, promised land, and you know that was a very prominent idea when I was growing up. And so I decided to do a show about some of these ideas,” she says, unpacking the vision.
“And because we still don’t have autonomy, everything about where we live, our daily experience, is owned by someone else. Because we don’t have autonomy, we cannot move freely on the African continent because different parts are owned, and now there are these borders that don’t allow me to move freely on what is actually supposed to be my home – from Cape to Cairo.
“We don’t have autonomy because we cannot decide for ourselves what happens in our own world. Someone else always decides what will happen in a black person’s life, in a black person’s body, in a woman’s life. So we have no freedom because there is no freedom without land,” said Mazwai.
Source : Sunday Independent
