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Culture as a Living System: Insights from Charlie Lockwood’s Eswatini Address

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In May 2026, amid the creative energy surrounding the MTN Bushfire Festival, the Eswatini Theatre Club (ENTC) hosted a vital conversation on heritage, sustainability, and community. As part of the USA Embassy Eswatini’s Freedom 250 Commemorations, Mr Charlie Lockwood, Director of the Museum of International Folk Art (MOIFA) in Santa Fe, New Mexico, delivered a keynote address exploring Arts, Culture, […]

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The Intellectual Practice of Mazisi Kunene & African Languages in the Future

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Few today can imagine that when Shakespeare was writing in English during his time, it was not fashionable to do so. During the 1500s educated English people wrote and read Latin. French was used for legal matters, while Latin was used to write science, philosophy and theology. That is what they learnt. They did not

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Africa: Why Sound Matters?

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In many African societies without written records, sound, whether through oral poetry, storytelling and music performance are ways in which we store the past—they are ways in which we remember. There are forever infrastructures to build, houses to clean, power grids to be put in place; but man does not live on this alone. We

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