Off stage, a conversation with Makhathini can feel like a graduate seminar as he deploys the lexicon of metaphysics and post-colonial theory in describing his artistic goals and vision.
More than a conceptual framework, maternal energy fed his creative process as the suite evolved out of a mother song Makhathini experienced while being initiated as a healer.
In the Zulu creation story our god is genderless, the one who appeared first, and that changes how we think of maternal energy.
The protean deity serves as an antidote to suffocating Western attitudes towards Africa that focus on scarcity rather than abundance.
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