Musings

I am pleased to attend the following session as a session Discussant. Please pass this on to any interested parties - note the archive URL below.

"Sathima's Windsong": Cape Jazz and the New African Diaspora
Chair: Carol Muller...

My friend and colleague, Fiona Ross, of the University of Cape Town's  (UCT) Department of Social Anthropology (where I am an Honorary Research Associate) did all the work in making this screening possible in the newly constituted Humanities...

The folks at the D6 Museum decided to make this screening part of their Womens' Week programme, and I appreciated the idea.  I  was really grateful for the great  care that Dean Jates (who...

I've given a number of papers at the University of the Western Cape (UWC), both in the History Department and at the Centre for the Study of the Humanities in Africa,  over the years.  I've also screened One Hundred Men there. The great...

I made a trip to Harare, after the Apartheid Archives Conference in Johannesburg. Going 'back' to Zimbabwe is a bit of an emotional roller-coaster - i lived and worked in Harare for much of the 1980s during that post-independence period of...

What an incredibly important conference and how very grateful I am for the invitation. The papers were consistently scholarly, thoughtful, engaged. I appreciated the intense and sometimes...

This is a wonderful festival and I was thrilled to have Sathima's Windsong accepted. There were a few technical difficulties in communication:  I arrived on the Wednesday night only to find my film had...

There was something almost surreal about doing this screening aboard the RMS St Helena, as we sailed to  St Helena.  The screening took place after  tea in the Sun Lounge -on two screens.  Some of the shooting for Sathima's...