The work of acclaimed playwright and researcher Mandla Mbothwe is rooted in cosmology and African storytelling traditions
Mbothwe is pleading with the ancestral bones to respond to the anxieties and material oppression of the living. Ancestral bones must help Frantz Fanon’s wretched of the earth survive life’s daunting storms.His latest play, iKrele leChiza … The Sermon, responds to the destruction of indigenous African spiritual beliefs and knowledge systems.
The stage resembles an African rondavel filled with the magic of traditional Xhosa songs, chants, dances and admonishing prayers in a cyclical festival full of mystique and engrossing ritualistic rhetoric.
iKrele offers varied dialectical conversations that move far beyond the narrow binaries of good and evil, power and powerlessness, African spirituality and Christianity, men and women.Africans must go all out in search of the foundation stones in the wild deserts of their forlorn dreams. “In my family for instance, imbozisa, or fennel in English, is integral to our daily rituals and totems. Few people realise that this herb is a powerful antioxidant and we all need it, not necessarily for spiritual purposes.”
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