Thandizwa Mazwai give more details on A Letter to Azania

In an Interview with the Citizen Mazwai gave more details on her show A Letter to Azania.

November 24, she will present a powerful live show entitled A Letter To Azania at Johannesburg’s Lyric Theatre.

Read the Interview here;

“Azania has always been the promised land for the oppressed black masses of the South. I want to do a show that highlighted my relationship with that promise. I want to communicate with Azania,” Mazwai said about her motivation to do the show and its title.

She uses her music to weave the threads that illustrate her early politicization and her visions of a place called Azania.

With A Letter To Azania she aims to engage the idea that freedom is a restless place and that we have not reached Azania.

“I will reveal intimate details of my childhood and my search for Azania, and what it has come to mean” said Mazwai, who is both nervous and excited about the show. “I have never done a show so personal. I believe my fans know that I get very spiritual in my work, but in this show there will be an intimacy that I have never explored before.”

Mazwai says music has been everything to her, it gave her the gift to imagine and escape. “Music gave me the ability to provide for myself and my family. Music has been my medicine, and a place of great interrogation and memory.”

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