Helen Herimbi - Music Journalist

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Pearl Thusi is Queen Sono
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Pearl Thusi is Queen Sono

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March 3, 2020
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Pearl Thusi, the star of Queen Sono, talks to Helen Herimbi about directing and dealing with trauma Pearl Thusi places her right hand under her chin and regards me suspiciously. One of her fingers sports a gilded Minora blade ring but she doesn’t look like she’s about to cut me. She’s...
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On: Pearl Thusi
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On: Pearl Thusi

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March 8, 2018
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Ahead of the release of her new film, Pearl Thusi takes Helen Herimbi along for a ride A long number fills up the top of my cellphone screen. The words “New York (NY)” appear below the number and above the words “Would like to FaceTime…” When I answer, a fresh-faced...
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On: Sir David Attenborough
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On: Sir David Attenborough

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January 31, 2018
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EXCLUSIVE: Sir David Attenborough spoke to Helen Herimbi about ‘Blue Planet II’, ahead of its African TV debut this weekend A few members of the media from all around the world are sitting in a room at the BFI IMAX in London, waiting for Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge,...
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On: Tebza Malope
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On: Tebza Malope

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December 29, 2017
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"I dubbed it Kasi Musings in Three-Part Harmony.” Multi-award-winning director, Tebogo “Tebza” Malope laughs after he tells me what he named the treatment he presented to Kwesta and his RapLyf team. The result is a polarising, visually-engaging music video for the rapper’s platinum single, Spirit. Shot over 23 hours and...
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On: Blitz The Ambassador
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On: Blitz The Ambassador

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December 28, 2017
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If consistency had an ambassador, Samuel Bazawule would be it. Known to you as Blitz The Ambassador, the Ghanaian-American rapper, producer and now film-maker has kept his nose to the grindstone since Stereotype in 2009. This year, his consistent resilience in an industry that rewards the typical has paid off....
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On: Julie Taymor

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November 24, 2017
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In this exclusive interview, the director talks to Helen Herimbi about 20 years of The Lion King The arts have been the Pride Rock of Julie Taymor’s life. A place for her to lift her talents – ranging from directing, editing, writing and even costume design among others – to...
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On: Amma Asante
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On: Amma Asante

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October 19, 2017
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British film director Amma Asante spoke to Helen Herimbi about the past and painting a new perception With classical music wafting in the air at the elegant albeit plantation-looking Chateau de Labourdonnais, it felt like the guests invited to the opening of the inaugural Mauritius Cinema Week were in a...
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On: Tjovitjo
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On: Tjovitjo

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August 16, 2017
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SABC 1’s Tjovito is the disruptor of the drama genre we’ve been waiting for, writes Helen Herimbi As I drive out of a tar road and onto a mixture of gravel and broken bottles and potholes, I spot a man on his knees on a patch of grass. He is...
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On: Tsitsi Dangarembga
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On: Tsitsi Dangarembga

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July 13, 2017
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Tsitsi Dangarembga is an institution in African literature in general and is exhalted as a woman who changed the game with her 1988 novel, Nervous Conditions. The 57-year-old Zimbabwean author went on a prose hiatus and resurfaced as a filmmaker. Twenty-five years ago, she established her production company, Nyerai Films,...
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On: Sacha Jenkins
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On: Sacha Jenkins

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June 28, 2017
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Sacha Jenkins sounds like he’s in high spirits. The day I catch up with the New York-based graffiti artist, hip hop culture journalist, author and film director, his five-year-old child has just graduated from pre-kindergarten. What unfolds during our conversation about his critically acclaimed documentary, Fresh Dressed, is the graduation...
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