Left of Black S5:E13:  Music and Afropolitan Identities in South Africa

Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined in-studio musician and composer Neo Muyanga (@NeoMuyanga) and journalist Khadija Patel (@khadijapatel) in a conversation about contemporary South Africa.  Muyanga and Patel were in-residence at Duke University as part of the WiSER (Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research) – Duke Writing Fellowship.

Neo Muyanga is a composer and librettist. Born in Soweto, Johannesburg, he is the co-founder of the Pan African Space Station and is currently working on a libretto which re-imagines South African protest music in the present. Khadija Patel is a journalist and blogger who is writing a history of the suburb of Mayfair in Johannesburg, where she grew up.  Home these days to Somalis, Ethiopians, Turks, and Indian and Coloured South Africans, Mayfair is both negotiating newly Afropolitan identities and battling legacies of segregation.

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