Arts activist Xolile ‘X’ Madinda – CEO and founder of The Black Power Station in Makhanda, South Africa - has been artist in virtual residence in the UVA music department this semester thanks to the generous support of the Mellon Indigenous Arts Program and the Ethnography Lab.
Two informal conversations from The Black Power Station will explore African philosophy, and the relationships between music, sound and the spirit.
Conversation 1: A Black Power Station Conversation with Uchenna Okeja & Nomalanga Mkhize:
Exploring the practice and uses of African philosophy for young and old in the 21st century
Meeting ID: 994 5102 0437
Passcode: 320914
Uchenna Okeja (left) is a professor of philosophy based at Rhodes University in Makhanda, South Africa, and the Director of Emengini Institute for Comparative Global Studies in Worcester, MA, U.S.A. He plays an active role in building local and international Black networks in the pursuit of Pan- Africanism and African agency.
Nomalanga Mkhize (right) is a historian based at the Nelson Mandela University in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Her research interests are in oral history and African language historiography. Mkhize has been actively involved in building independent community arts programmes as well as fighting for better basic education in the Eastern Cape.