The Mail & Guardian | Africa's Better Future

indigenous african musiclatest news & developments

Queen of one-take: Mantombi Matotiyana recorded her first album in her eighties; this is the theme of the first edition of the herri website.

Our artistic herri-tage online

The viewer is in total control when navigating a website named after Herri the Strandloper, a soundmine of narratives and ideas

Derek Davey

Wired for sound: Spoek Mathambo on his tour to discover indigenous African sounds.

INDIGENOUS AFRICAN MUSIC

Future sounds mine the past

Spoek Mathambo explores the ancient music of the San and gets hip to maskandi for his latest project.

Sandiso Ngubane