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Last week, I started a new series titled “Unsolicited and Free advice”. ‘Unsolicited and Free advice’ is a feature that will be published once a month, in which I offer unsolicited and free advice to creative practitioners on various things. The first episode of ‘Unsolicited and Free Advice’ focused on Azaria, Latoya Stella, Kandaha, C-Jay, NH-Dwayne...
Last week, I mentioned that I will start a new series on #IndustryLoop. ‘Unsolicited and Free advice’ is something that I will do once a month, where year in which I offer unsolicited and free advice to creative practitioners on various things. “Unsolicited and Free advice” is an indication of genuine concern and love for...
Every year, I embark on a series to keep things interesting in this column. Recent examples are ‘OTU’ and ‘NSK’s monthly favs’, etc. ‘OTU’ was a series that focused on emerging talent. ‘NSK’s monthly fav’s was the sharing of my personal Namibian music playlist that I would feature in my private and personal spaces. Boys and girls, young and old…...
Going solo after spending years in a duo or a group of musicians must be the most liberating feeling ever. It’s either that or it should be extremely frightening and intimidating. In the famous words of Nigerian comedian BasketMouth: “There are only two things involved”. We will follow his mantra in unpacking this conversation. What...
Does Namibia need a return of the Namibia Annual Music Awards (Namas)? If yes, what would they look like in 2025/2026 and beyond? Does the industry really stand to benefit from a return of the Namas? Or perhaps a whole new awards ceremony different from the famed Namas? What would the sponsorship model be like? ...
Cultural festivals are huge in the Namibian house. We love cultural festivals. Every tertiary institution features one. We have independent cultural festivals. We have cultural festivals in the regions. They are everywhere. We can safely assume that cultural festivals are a Namibian way of life. However, the last cultural festival I attended left me wondering what...
Google teaches us that a one-man show refers to a performance by a single creative practitioner (actor, musician, etc). Basically, it refers to exhibiting or showcasing the work of a single artist. One – not two or three – one artist. So, why do we, in Namibia, have a one-man show with a hundred people...
Namibian creative practitioners seemingly still do not understand the power of a podcast feature. Since turning this column into a podcast, I’ve been turned down by so many creative practitioners. There’s this weird stigma and fear that comes with coming on to a podcast. I call it weird because the business of podcasts is literally...
Affirmative Repositioning (AR) member of parliament, Fredrick Shitana, aka Lieutenant Shitana, delivered his maiden contribution in parliament earlier this week. It must be known that I have the utmost respect for the militant style of work Shitana has done in the last eight years or so in protecting his art and that of the industry at...
The recent chat about Namibian choirs predominantly singing songs of South African origins had me in a retrospective chokehold. If there’s one thing you need to know about me…is that I love the art of choral ensembling. I love choir music, I have sung in choirs all my life. Hence why this chat was so...