Showing posts with label Khoisan identity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Khoisan identity. Show all posts

Saturday, 15 October 2011

The Rise and Rise of the Rastafari

Taflesig, Mitchell's Plain, Cape Town
by Niren Tolsi, Mail & Guardian

The reggae band Horry Quagga is busting a groove on a Sunday afternoon in Wesbank, a township near Delft, north-east of Cape Town.

Band member Barry Korana is tongue-twisting a series of clicks into the microphone, the quills in his animal skin crown dancing to crunchy guitar chords. The combination of reggae music, vocal acrobatics and plumes of marijuana smoke lends a spectral quality to the performance.