MakebaMusicEra

A blog celebrating South African, African music legends and highlighting their music and the impact it had at the time.

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PJ Powers - Jabulani Starting this grey, dull Monday with Pj Powers- Jabulani

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Join us tomorrow evening for a conversation with legendary jazz icon Hugh Masekela and friends, sponsored by our friends at Studio X Johannesburg. THEME: Deconstructing Xenophobia: Rebuilding Our Unified African Heritage from the African Perspective. Not in Jo'burg? A livestream link will be available soon!

(via ArchiAfrika)

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PJ Powers There is an answer

Enjoy your Wednesday wherever you may be in the world and enjoy the message in this song.

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Ruby Sue Woo  photographed by durtymota

Make up by Sierra Holloman ( copycatstyles )

Retouched by Marnus Meyner

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Pj Powers or Thandeka

Artist of the week. Thandeka or Pj Powers Penelope Jane was born in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal on 16 July 1960.[1] PJ's first musical group was an all-girl band called Pantha. About a year later she joined Jimslip which in time became the famous "Hotline". She was the lead singer for the rock band Hotline, which was formed in Johannesburg. She is known for her song titled: Jabulani. Any one who grew up in South Africa in the 80´s would know her song: Jabulani.

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Photo Credit: Lauren Fletcher editorial for Gaschette Magazine

Model: Aphelele-Mbiyo

Styling: Zakirah Rabaney

via: African Prints in Fashion

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Layers Of Life Under Apartheid - Images by South African Photographer Bob Gosani.

Photos via Bailey’s African History Archive.

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© sequoia ziff

www.sequoiaziff.com

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JULUKA - IMPI

Enjoy your Friday wherever you are in the world.

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‘RESILIENTS 2014’ by Joana Choumali

« Resilients » show that lineage is inextinguishable. Clothed with their mothers’s and grandmothers’s ornaments, they reveal legacies. Inheritance. The women revealed in their ancestrality through their photographies, demonstrate the importance of their cultural heritage.

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Dedicated to the Cultural Preservation of the African Aesthetic

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Savuka previously known as Juluka group.

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Scatterlings of Africa

I am sure people familiar with this song will nod in agreement when I say this song brings childhood memories, especially if you were born in the 70´s or even 80´s for that matter. A time where it was not hip to be balck in South African( not that is is hip today either) this song reminded us of who we were as a people. The beat, the chanting. It´s a beautiful song.

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“I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.” - Miriam Makeba.

Miriam Makeba by Musa Omusi.

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Juluka: South African Band

Juluka is a South African band that came into existence in 1969. Jonny Clegg: the White Zulu and Sipho Mchunu were then band members. Juluka: means sweat in Zulu These two formed a multi- cultural band at the time where apartheid was the ruling regime. Their multi-culturalism was authentic because the cutural exchange of music and lifestyle that took place could be enjoyed by South Africans a large. I grew up listening their music. Jonny Clegg is a favourite among black South Africans because he has proven that cultural exchange is a two way street. He is known to speak fluent Zulu and dance traditional Zulu dance like a Zulu boy. In my opinion, he has been able to do what the majority of white South Africans still have a hard time doing.

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Johnny Clegg (With Nelson Mandela) - Asimbonanga - 1999 Fran

To commemorate Freedom day which was yesterday and to say no Xenophobia in South Africa and around the world. Here is Mr Jonny Clegg, Asimbonanga.