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Rhodes University Department of Music, Makhanda

SAVE THE DATE: PASMAE SUB-REGIONAL CONFERENCE 2024

The Pan-African Society for Musical Arts Education (PASMAE) is excited to announce our upcoming 2024 sub-regional conference. The theme for the conference is “RE/ME”, which underscores the evolving relationship between Research (RE) and …

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Thoughts from ISME Conference, Baku

Thoughts from ISME Conference, Baku

PASMAE members Benon Kigozi, Judy Thönell and Caroline van Niekerk attended the 2018 ISME World Conference in Baku, Azerbaijan and filed this report.

Lawrence Branco Sekalegga

Ugandan music educator receives ISME grant

Lawrence Branco Sekalegga from Kampala, Uganda was the recipient of a 2018 ISME grant for the choral music program at this school, St Aloysius. This was a struggling school, seeking to ​grow self confidence, leadership …

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Africans serving on the ISME Board

Three Africans now serve on the ISME Board 2020-2022. They are Otukile Phibion from Gabarone, Botswana who joined the Board for the first time. Elizabeth Andang’o from Nairobi, Kenya who is re-elected for her second term. Emily Achieng’ …

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Africans win SEMPRE/ISME grants

Africans win SEMPRE/ISME grants

Africans have been awarded two of the five ISME/SEMPRE grants in the 2021 funding round. They are Dr Alethea de Villiers for a research study with San and Kho Chiefs in Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth), South Africa and Dr …

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Ugandan to keynote ISME conference

Ugandan to keynote ISME conference

Patrick Kabanda, originally from Kampala, Uganda, is to keynote the ISME 35th World Conference (online). Patrick discovered the joy of music as a child when he became a chorister in the cathedral where he found …

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