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Allen Kwela, Aaron Lerole, and Creda Mutwa respectively played kwela, jive, and township jazz.

Mushaandja said his favourite artists are Fella Khuti, Busi Mhlongo and locally Jackson Kaujeeua and Tate Kwela, and that he wants to make music that will heal this nation to be able to sing songs together no matter which tribe they are.

Starting with tunes on the simple pennywhistle, the musical journey will take listeners through to the Kwela jazz sound and on to tunes from vocal legend Miriam Makeba, as well as South African musical icons Johnny Clegg and Mango Groove.

were produced and aired, while national documentaries included Carte Blanche and Kwela. The media team was involved in the planning phases for the documentaries and was on-site during filming.

On feminist agency, see Jacklyn Cock, Colonels and Cadres: War and Gender in South Africa (Cape Town: Oxford University Press, 1991); Shamim Meer, ed., Women Speak: Reflections on Our Struggles, 1982-1997 (Cape Town: Kwela Books, 1998); Wendy Woodward, Patricia Hayes, and Gary Minkley, eds., Deep histories: Gender and Colonialism in Southern Africa (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2002); and Shelia Meintjes, Anu Pillay, and Meredeth Turshen, eds., The Aftermath: Women in Post-Conflict Transformation (London: Zed Books, 2001).

Previous winners include South Africa's Mary Watson, who won in 2006 for Jungfrau from Moss, Kwela Books, 2004.

It was here that I became fascinated by kwela and Afrikaans offbeat music."

(xiii) The full trajectory of his work is: Spirits Unchained (Detroit: Broadside Press, 1969), For Melba (Chicago: Third World Press, 1970), The Word Is Here: Poetry from Modern Africa (New York: Anchor, 1973), My Name is Afrika (New York: Doubleday, 1971), The Present is a Dangerous Place to Live (Chicago: Third World Press, 1975), Places and Bloodstains (Oakland, CA: Achebe Publications, 1976), When The Clouds Clear (Johannesburg: COSAW, 1990), To The Bitter End (Chicago: Third World Press, 1995), If I Could Sing (Cape Town: Kwela Press, 2002), and This Way I Salute You (Cape Town: Kwela Press, 2004).

Kikamba, S., Going Home (Roggebaai, South Africa: Kwela Books, 2005) 223 pp.

The Caine Prize for African writing was awarded in July to Mary Watson of Cape Town, South Africa, for her short story "Jungfrau" from her collection Moss (Kwela Books, 2004).

As latter-day storytellers, San (pronounced Saahn) from across Southern Africa are the authors of Voices of the San, a beautifully illustrated record of San photos, artists's work and above all a vital written record of living history, published by Kwela Books--a project of the WIMSA (Working Group of Indigenous Minorities in South Africa, Namibia), supported by the Kuru Family of Organisations (KFO, Botswana) and SASI (South African San Institute).