Situated at International Library of African Music

We must know where we come from to know where we are going. This archive includes 25 years of Exile History. Jazz Against Apartheid is a vehicle for change. As a form of Cultural Activism, “jazz fought the struggle and won,” as Zim Ngqawana put it. And now in the post-1994 era and in the 2024 moment, jazz has come to represent the united efforts for equal access to opportunity, education, cultural roots and memory across multiple disciplines and from multiple perspectives.

Temporary Photo Exhibition, Text and Banners

As it was going to be a travelling and a permanent collection for the history and heritage with black and white photography Look & Feel that resonated with the colours of freedom black, red and white and aesthetically placed photos, images and text to pull out banners, that aree primary information panels for the show. Each photo with designed captions.

The jewel in the crown of BAHA is Drum magazine. Drum was great mover on the African continent. It was a complet rol ecall of the creative geniuses of an era of South African history and heritage, whilst contributing to Africa's liberation march during the 1960's. Bailey was a personal friend and benefactor of a number of African leaders. They included Jomo Kenyata and Tom Mboya (Kenya), Kwame Nkrumah (Ghana), Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa (Nigeria), Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu (South Africa). These memoirs and others are documented in the posthumous poetry collection, 'Airborne to Africa'.

"The events take place in South Africa, in a post-democracy climate of change. The struggles that had taken place below ground are suddenly above ground. South Africa at the time was so beautiful and enticing."

"The music danced playfully, travelling into the busy microcosm of the inner body, nursing, restoring and charging the inner organs with frequencies of heavenly harmony delivered with unconditional love. The music put the mind to rest, bringing absolute joy through its strong sense of purpose and power. The music was a meditation of pure love.”

Activations, preservations and disseminations including arts, books, proverbs, teachings, ground-up knowledge and foundation courses in African arts culture and spirituality, House of Memory is a resource for the worldwide Black Consciousness movement as a multi-disciplined arts practice.

The music is spiritual, unlimited and transcendental, built on a solid history of self-expression where finding oneself is the present in every era. Our South African jazz comes from the place of our highest selves and is like the vivid array of colours that are natures' true abundance.

"Jazz is Freedom" likes at the lives of the great South African musicians and how they embodied freedom. Other topics include "Music of the post-apartheid era," and "The traditional instruments of Southern Africa."