Bringing together the traditional and the modern, Thandiswa Mazwai is taking her new album Sankofa to the world
Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.Transporting voice: Thandiswa Mazwai performs at the 25th Standard Bank Joy of Jazz festival, which was held in Sandton, Joburg, in September.
“Ilanga lashona emini,” sings Mazwai as she alerts us to the absurdity of the sun setting in the middle of the day. On a Zoom call late last month, Mazwai smiles: “My work seems to come out in election years, for some reason.” She continues to reflect, “You know, it’s always been like that because even with the very first group that I was with, Jack Knife, I remember that we were big the year that we went to Pretoria for the first inauguration.
As our conversation continues, I realise the category I offered seems too thin. She is not just an oral historian. As her website tells us, Mazwai’s “music travels through the village into the ghetto and raises the roof in the city”. The diasporic communities in the Americas also form part of this futuristic transportation device, powered by her voice.
“But home is a much larger idea, it is not just the loss of a mother or the township Soweto, or being umXhosa, it’s also about nationhood and it is also about belonging to the world, the universe and wherever you find yourself.”, I wonder if, in her singing of the song, she is able to open an intimate portal where the image of a home, animated by her late mother, still exists.
“With this album, I felt that it was about a much larger group of people and it made sense for us to try for the Grammys this time around,” she continues.
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