Malawi music’s identity crisis

Two clips of Dr Daniel Kachamba playing a guitar have been circulating on social media all week. Recorded in Göttingen, Germany in 1972 with ethnomusicologist Gerhard Kubik, the footage reminds us what Malawi’s music industry risks forgetting: the world has little reason to listen if all we offer is somebody else’s sound. Kachamba, who died … The post Malawi music’s identity crisis appeared first on Nation Online .