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From left: Founders Kevin Reese, Chase Freeman and Gregory K Burton Jr. Photo: Supplied by Milk + Cookies.

More Than A Festival: Inside the Milk + Cookies Music Week Mission

Milk + Cookies Music Week returns to South Africa, thus cementing its status as more than a festival through its commitment to local talent and economic support.

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Supplied by Cristiana Mimmi
Istituto Italiano di Cultura – Pretoria

Italian Republic Day brings the Rome Opera Ensemble to SA

South Africa’s Embassy in Italy hosts Rome Opera Ensemble concerts in Johannesburg and Cape Town to celebrate Italian Republic Day.

Close to home: Legendary singer Miriam Makeba with fellow musician Hugh Masekela in Lesotho in 1980. (Gallo Images/Sunday Times and Gallo Images/Avusa)

Masekela’s Lesotho concerts: A bittersweet homecoming

Taking place after the musician had gone back to the United States and after a short sojourn to Liberia, the Live in Lesotho concerts are a musical and thematic pivot towards home.

Majority rule: Zimbabweans struggled for many years to achieve majority rule peacefully, but faced with a white minority determined to hold on to privileges, the armed struggle became the only option. (Basler Afrika Bibliographien)

Soon we’ll find out who is the real revolutionary: Marley and the birth of Zimbabwe

The iconic concert to celebrate independence in Zimbabwe would prove to contain a warning

Doing more harm than good: The 1985 Live Aid concert in London to raise funds for starving Ethiopians framed Africa as a stricken continent in desperate need of European generosity.

A song against Ebola is just a band-aid

Geldof’s project should highlight the geopolitical problems that allowed the disease to spread.

Fusion of African identity

Nigerian singer Asa’s travels between the old and the new worlds have elements of a grand narrative.

Politics and poetry

Zimbabwean poet Chirikure Chirikure will lead a concert aimed at raising awareness on Zimbabwe at Bassline. Precy Zvomuya spoke to him.