Contemporary African Music and Arts Archive

CAMA
CAMA - Contemporary African Music & Arts Archive is a UCT-based documentary outreach project with a multimedia production studio at Montebello Design Centre.
Over the past decade, CAMA has developed various computer-based multimedia projects, focussing on African music, dance and art. We are engaged in the preservation of Africa’s cultural heritage. These include the documentation of living artists, musicians and their creativity, as well as ethnographic materials from existing institutional holdings.

We established field documentary units and multi-media studios in seven African countries: Mali, Ghana, Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique & South Africa.
Contact: +27 21 650 2828 or visit : www.cama.org.za and www.can.org
Find us at Studio 17, 31 Newlands Avenue, Newlands, Cape Town.

Contemporary African Music and Arts Archive
The brainchild of John Turest Swartz, this University of Cape Town based website has the backing of the Ford Foundation in trying to archive the artists and musicians of seven countries across Africa - South Africa, Mali, Ghana, Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Mozambique.
An extremely worthy enterprise, but one which needs some serious attention to the section on artists to be relevant. Apart from an essay on Sam Nhlengethwa by David Koloane, all of the information on South African artists seems to have been taken verbatim and scanned either from Art in South Africa: the Future Present (Sue Williamson and Ashraf Jamal, 1996) (a random selection of artists) or the Ibis Centre !Xoe site spec ific project catalogue. Useful if you don't have those publications. A long list of other artists from other countries, particularly Zimbabwe, appears.

Kuboes Nama Gospel Singers

!Khubus Nama //Nae!nans

CD recorded and produced by CAMA studio.

As part of the Richtersveld Nama craft and culture project for SKEPPIES and Conservation International

 
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