Archive

The “Sounding Indigenous in South Africa” (SISA) project’s team of academic researchers and Khoesan scholar-activists is collaboratively archiving and studying Khoesan heritage performances of music and dance with communities across the Northern Cape. The SISA project’s archival materials (including photographs, audio recordings, and video recordings) are stored with Indigenous community partners as well as with the International Library of African Music (ILAM) located in Makhanda, Eastern Cape, South Africa.

To access materials within the SISA project archive, please contact the ILAM archivist Dr. Elijah Madiba at e.madiba@ru.ac.za. ILAM is open to the public and all are welcome to visit. ILAM is located at Prince Alfred Street, Makhanda, 6139, South Africa.

On this website, we feature select photographs and audio-visual recordings of performers who have contributed to the SISA archive. Content will be added and updated on an ongoing basis.