Ncebakazi Mnukwana
Ncebakazi (Kazi) Mnukwana is a lecture in music education, ethnomusicology and co-ordinates the advanced certificate in education (ACE/GOS) for arts and culture at the Konservatorium. She holds a BMus.Ed, a post-graduate diploma in organisation and management and a MMus (cum laude) from the University of Cape Town (UCT). Between 2002 and 2005, she was awarded a scholarship to the Oslo University College in Norway, where she received an MPhil in Multicultural and International Education. During her time in Norway, she was the musical director of the group Inkululeko, a choir formed in the late 1980s by South African exiles. In 2007, she enrolled for a PhD at UCT. In July 2008, she delivered a paper titled "The teaching of iingoma zamagqirha of the amaXhosa in South Africa: An emergent model for oral-based transmission of indigenous knowledge systems" at the International Society for Music Education (ISME) conference in Bologna, Italy. She is the South African project leader of MatikiSA a theatre-making group comprised of South African and Finnish actors and musicians. She also chairs the reference team of "Shades of Belonging" by the Institute of Justice and Reconciliation, a project aiming to preserve African indigenous instruments.
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