Hugh Masekela Archives - Consciousness.co.za Magazine https://consciousness.co.za/tag/hugh-masekela/ 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 [...]

The post We owe it to jazz appeared first on Consciousness.co.za Magazine.

]]> https://consciousness.co.za/we-owe-it-to-jazz/feed/ 0 A First for the first https://consciousness.co.za/a-first-for-the-first/ https://consciousness.co.za/a-first-for-the-first/#respond Thu, 15 Dec 2016 15:11:02 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=12705 We are well ushered into the silly season where the air is filled with a hive of activities, new habits, lifestyles and vices will suffice. Down the road there are sapiens retreating to a bucolic surrounding, two turns away another will be taking a well deserved interval in the backdrop of a fruitful year end. [...]

The post A First for the first appeared first on Consciousness.co.za Magazine.

]]> https://consciousness.co.za/a-first-for-the-first/feed/ 0