Istihunzi: Monthati Masebe: Music theatre by Monthati Masebe

In Zulu, "Isithunzi" means "dignity," but also "spirit of death and renewal." Within each of us resides a spirit: a connection to our ancestors and to the cosmic energy that gives birth to all life. Monthati Masebe, a South African composer and initiator of an archive of African cultural sounds, tells the story of three protagonists on their journey to their inner selves in her first music theater piece, based on a text by the Afrofuturist author...