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Dr Nduduzo Makhathini (Artist & Scholar – South Africa)
Dr Nduduzo Makhathini (Artist & Scholar – South Africa)

Dr Nduduzo Makhathini (Artist & Scholar – South Africa)

Nduduzo Makhathini is an artist and scholar at the University of KwaZulu Natal school of the arts. Makhathini has recently published two papers with peer review journals, Bheki Mseleku: Towards a Biography (2018), and Jazz in Postcolonial South Africa: Tracing the Politics of ‘Formal’ and ‘Informal’ (2021). His doctoral dissertation, which he obtained from Stellenbosch University, was titled: ‘Breaking into Sound: Dis/Locating Ntu Cosmology and Improvisation in South African Jazz’ (2023). Dr Makhathini’s practice and scholarship focus on constructing alternative sites for practicing and theorising jazz studies in South Africa that consider ba-ntu cosmologies as points of departure. 

Makhathini is also a multi award winning artist and internationally acclaimed musician from Pietermaritzburg in KwaZulu Natal. As a bandleader, Makhathini holds 12 albums under his belt and he features on many as a sideman and producer. He is currently signed to the prestigious Blue Note Records in the US and has a busy tourist schedule that keeps him relevant in current jazz discourses. Makhathini has collaborated with Wynton Marsalis, Richard Bona, Hamilton de Holanda, Black Coffee, (the late) Zim Ngqawana, Omagugu and Mbuso Khoza just to name a few of his favourite musicians that he has worked with. Makhathini has also done reputable festivals around the globe such as Umbria Jazz Fest, Joy of Jazz, Jarasum Jazz Fest, Chicago Jazz Fest, Montreal Jazz Fest and Cape Town International Jazz Fest among others.

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