African dance gumbo

Celebrating the diversity of South African dance, African Gumbo, directed and choreographed by Maxwell Xolani Rani, was showcased by UCT's School of Dance recently.

Performance pieces were based on several works from Sandile Dikeni's poetry volume, Telegraph to the Sky; Sonho De Mae Negra (Dream of an African Mother), a protest poem by Mozambiquan liberation leader Marcelino Dos Santos; and The Birth of Shaka by Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali.