African Jazz Pioneers return to Botswana

Famed South African Afro jazz group, African Jazz Pioneers will be back in the country, courtesy of the Botswana Craft where they will stage a show on March 30.

The group will share the stage with Ntate Bhudaza Maphefane from Lesotho and local Afro jazz artist, Socca Moruakgomo. 

For some music revellers, the African Jazz Pioneers show will be sentimental for some reasons.  Afro Jazz Pioneers' greatest show in Gaborone was in the mid-90s at the defunct Oriental Express at the Village.  This is one of the shows that you would not easily erase from your memory if you had attended it.  That was at a time when the founder member of the group, Ntemi Piliso, was still alive.  You could still recall the members of the ensemble all in white shirts and black pants. Piliso died in 2000 aged 75. 

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