GALLERY: Basha Uhuru celebrates 25 years of freedom in fired-up style
JOBURG – Basha Uhuru Sounds of Freedom closes off exciting four-day celebration of youth expression with a bang.
Now in its eighth year, the Basha Uhuru Freedom Festival once again took on Constitution Hill from 26–29 June with a programme which featured art exhibitions, film screenings, creative dialogues, and a music festival with two stages featuring the best of local performers.
Themed ’25 Years of Democracy’, the four-day programme kicked off with Basha Uhuru Creative Conference which was presented by Gauteng Enterprise Propeller and fired up by Nando’s, the Basha Bacha Creative Uprisings was a three-day summit with a combination of creative talks, panel discussions and interactive workshops, showcases and more.
On 28 June some of the country’s most talented poets took to the stage at the Words of Freedom poetry festival and the line-up featured the likes of Makhafula Vilakazi, Dr Sarah Godsell, Mutle Mothibe, Belita Andre and more talented poets.
The four-day fest culminated on 29 June with Basha Uhuru Sounds of Freedom, the annual music festival and this year’s line-up included Riky Rick, Thebe, Msaki, Khuli Chana, Brother Moves On, De Mthuda and Njelic and a whole lot more.
Check out the gallery below for a sneak peak of what went down at the Basha Uhuru Freedom Festival:
