On 20 November we celebrate the life and legacy of Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli (1898-1967) the president-general of the African National Congress from 1952 until his death in 1967. Luthuli, Africa’s first Nobel Peace Prize Laureate in 1960, was a man, intolerant of hatred, and adamant in his demands for equality and peace among all humans.  The Javett-UP, in collaboration with Albert Luthuli Leadership Institute and University of Pretoria’s School of the Arts and Education Department, invites you to a series of engagements in ode to Luthuli. The daylong event will feature performances, discussions, music, education and visual art student exhibitions.

In celebration of Albert Luthuli, the Javett-UP present our third reading intervention by Johannesburg-based artist, jazz percussionist and thinker Tumi Mogorosi’s DeAesthetic which focus on the Black Sonic as a dislocated episteme, which identifies the aesthetic as a limitation. In their de-centering, the texts fundamentally open a way to write and read beyond hegemonic knowledge validations. On this day we will focus on the sixth chapter which unpacks Black Performative Silence: A Turn to Black Hope featuring Tumi Mogorosi in conversation with Athi Nangamso Nkopo and Thabag Monoa.