Bokani Dyer Archives - Consciousness.co.za Magazine https://consciousness.co.za/tag/bokani-dyer/ Arts and African History Fri, 04 Oct 2019 12:35:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 We owe it to jazz https://consciousness.co.za/we-owe-it-to-jazz/ https://consciousness.co.za/we-owe-it-to-jazz/#respond Wed, 02 Oct 2019 13:07:30 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=13692 Who would have thought that something so good as South African jazz would be born from the darker days of apartheid? Well the likes of ntate Hugh Masekela, ntate Jonas Gwagwa, ntate Abdullah Abrahim, and mama Dolly Rathebe, mama Dorothy Masuka and mama Mirriam Makeba, didn’t let what the apartheid government and its oppressing laws [...]

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