Word 'n Sound

Word and sound spawns mix tape collage of interviews, reviews, biographical insights into artists and the upliftment of the artist in his or her totality. Words and sounds collide in this section as we endeavour to create icons on our continent for generations to come. We will honour, celebrate and critic the exponents of our rhythm and well as poetic voices that spew our wisdom through the winds.

1. Riddims ::
every time i open my mouth it is a mouthful \ the story i tell is full \ like a full-moon \ i am not ban ki-moon \ that one is a buffoon \ he sees in us only coons \ our life as just a carnival \ we say cancel the debt \ he organizes a festival...

2. Words... ::
the writer cannot be contained in the limits of time and space and cannot be a slave to practice\ convention, habit, custom, traditions and belief systems. that is not to say a writer cannot uphold an ideology or a belief system. it is to say...

3. What's Wrong with Groovin' ? ::
Fortunately for us we started making our music in the United States, South Afrikan music. We made our music and we sang Afrikan songs in the United States and we sent that music here so when we came back everyone wanted to hear this Afrikan...

4. The Living Legend of Letta Mbulu ::
In 1965, following the two year run and success of the all-black, all-star musical King Kong in South Africa, its year-long tour of London and the subsequent exile of most of its cast, Letta Mbulu arrived to stay, in the United States. She...