I grow up in Apartheid South Africa. You know the name Azania was very ubiquitous and at the time it was a Utopia that we imagined we would arrive at when we found freedom. My feeling right now is that the country is sinking into a dystopia that is moving further and further away from our vision of this new world where there would be no violence and there would be justice; and this world would be driven by ideas, ideologies such as Ubuntu which I think we’ve lost quite a lot of
The state we are in, is need for reawakening or reimagining of this new world. In the show I want to re-invigorate and bring back the interest in our history of Empire as Africans and the importance of feeling at home all over the place, all over Africa. When I’m in Senegal I’m home and when I’m in Ghana I’m home. That as an African, we really are one, but also finding the peace and the joy to be able to reimagine new worlds. At the moment, we are at the precipice of something that feels to me like a disaster for the entire continent not just for South Africa.
Dear Azania, I have searched for you all my life.
This letter calls us all to awaken our imagination and remember the teachings of old as we forge a new world.
We need to come back and be grounded.
Reintroduces certain practice back into our society.
To change fundamentals. Bring a change and birth a new world, a new reality.
Creating new policies, redefining ourselves, re-creating ourselves.
