Register: Seeds of the Braced Bow with Nkosenathi Ernie Koela , Beheroze Shroff, and Jazmin Graves, Moderated by Hiba Ali on Friday, May 28th , 2021, 12pm – 1:30pm EST
The third and momentary closing event of the Black Indian Ocean Series entitled Seeds of the Braced Bow features Nkosenathi Ernie Koela’s dissertation on the shared heritage of musical braced bow, known as the Malunga, Chitende and uMaKhweyana, from India, Mozambique and KwaZulu-Natal /Swaziland. Akin to the germination of airborne seeds as they travel, Koela delineates how ancient African practices of sagacity travel far and wide as a living piece of memory through the music of the global African diaspora. The conversation will include Nkosenathi Ernie Koela, Beheroze Shroff and Jazmin Graves and will be moderated by Hiba Ali.
Register for the screening here.
Pedagogical readings:
Nkosenathi Ernie Koela, Introduction chapter (page 1-37), ‘Seeds of the Braced Bow’ (The Flower, the Seed and the Bee), Faculty of Humanities ,College of Music, University of Cape Town, Link.
Jazmin Graves, Through the Eyes of the Lyre: A Transoceanic Perspective on the Sidi Sufi Devotional Tradition of Western India, published in the African Diasporan Communities across South Asia Series Volume 2, Link
The Black Indian Ocean Series is funded by SAVAC and the Oregon Humanities Center’s Endowment for Public Outreach in the Arts, Sciences and Humanities.
The collage image features Sultan ChaCha holding a baby girl in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. The image was created from Nkosenathi Ernie Koela’s dissertation ‘Seeds of the Braced Bow’ (The Flower, the Seed and the Bee), Faculty of Humanities ,College of Music, University of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa. Photo credits belong to E. Koela, 2017.