FIRST MUSIC UNIVERSITY IN ESWATINI: SEARCH FOR SUITABLE LOCATION IN MBABANE UNDERWAY

MBABANE – Africa Ntjilo in Korea has been planning to build an Eswatini Institute of Music and Arts and establish an After-School Orchestra Music Education Programme as they are still searching for a location for construction in Mbabane.

This was confirmed by to Promise Mabuza, Africa Ntjilo Empowerment After-School Programme head teacher. Africa Ntjilo in Korea is a non-profit corporation registered under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in South Korea. It is worth noting that their branch in the kingdom is called Africa Ntjilo Empowerment. Africa Ntjilo Empowerment is an institution founded by the Eswatini Institute of Music and Art, which is Eswatini’s first music college. In cooperation with professional musicians and music faculties in the United States of America, South Korea, Europe and South Africa, it currently provides a Bachelor’s Degree in Music Education (BME) for young adults in Eswatini. Lectures and intensive workshops are facilitated both online and on site.

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According to Promise Mabuza, Africa Ntjilo Empowerment after-school programme head teacher, they were still looking for a location around Mbabane where the university would be constructed. “We are still in search of a location where the university will be built, but in the meantime, we are situated at Eswatini Medical Christian University,” said Mabuza.

The university will be dedicated to nurturing experts capable of adjusting to today’s traditional music scene through academic study of traditional performing arts, with a strong focus on instruments, song and dance to maximise performance ability. The school will also provide a broad insight and a fierce artistic spirit, which are naturally transferred to the students beyond the limitations of conventional apprentice-based art education with simple technical repetitions.

Jockonias Mandlanzi from Eswatini, who is currently in Korea for training, highlighted how they were meeting with sponsors for the music university in Korea alongside Dr Kim of Africa Ntjilo Empowerment, who is the owner of the Mbabane Chember Orchestra. Particularly in 2020, in times of solitude, communities naturally turned to music as a universal language, sending love, hope and empathy to people all over the world. In Eswatini, Korean corporates looking in witnessed miraculous moments of solidarity between musicians in South Korea and Eswatini through this program, Africa Ntjilo Empowerment.

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