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Afr(Ind)ian Fiction: Reckoning with belonging
6 May 2021
Othnell Mangoma Moyo pictured on stage as part of Hope Masike’s band. He collaborates with Kinsmen as part of Afr(ind)ian Fiction. (Anatol Bogendorfer)
‘This music,” says Dhruv Sodha, “is owned by all of us equally. It’s four stories that come together, like a gathering around a fire.”
The sitar player is describing the sounds created as part of the Afr(ind)ian Fiction project: a collaboration between the musicians of South African Music Awards-nominated local improvising trio Kinsmen and Zimbabwean multi-instrumentalist, Othnell Mangoma Moyo. Kinsmen comprises Sodha, tabla player Shailesh Pillay and saxophonist Muhammad Dawjee.