Learning from the Witswatersrand

Lecture Hall at the University of the Witwatersrand

professor David Coplan, Anthropologist, South African Music 

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University of Johannesburg

A little fuzzy from thousands of miles away! And that is how we felt until the singing began. The choir on the Soweto campus of UJ started our "meet and greet" with the swapping of songs.  Here we are learning a song from the Tsonga tradition and moving ....dancing together.

Visiting student Pashy Matlala in our home in Boone - - helping me learn the words and moves for "Njalo" in 2012.   We hope to see Pashy again next week, and meet her Mum in Pretoria soon.

At this moment, we are still in Boone, North Carolina, USA getting ready for the trip to South Africa.  It has been well over two years since we said goodbye to our South African friends and came back home.  We will fly from JFK to Johannesburg on a flight that lasts about 15 hours, and then hit the ground running as fast as we can to choir practices and into the arms of our loved ones there.