Qhawekazi is an ethnomusicologist, researcher, musician, writer, and teacher, originally from East London, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Her research, teaching, and performance interests lie in the presentation of indigenous knowledge systems and jazz music.
Vuyo Giba
Photographer
Vuyo Giba is a photographer with over a decade’s timeline of serving and delivering jazz images.
Peggy Luswazi
Eastern Cape Director
Peggy Nomfundo Luswazi was born in Kokstad South Africa as daughter of a pastors family and grew up in Anglican Mission Stations. After her degree at Fort Hare she worked as a teacher in secondary and high schools before she came to study psychology at the university of cologne and later West Berlin. She lectured at the institute for intercultural Education, free university and also at the third world unit of the technical university in West Berlin.
Struan Douglas
South African Director
Struan Douglas is a musician and author born in KwaZulu Natal in 1976. As a cultural writer he has focused on South African Jazz writing since ’94.
Jürgen Leinhos
Founding Director
Kultur im Ghetto founder Jürgen Leinhos is a practiced organizer of concerts for decades with long-time supporters from church, union and civil society.
Elisabeth Ehrhorn
German Director
Elisabeth Ehrhorn is a journalist, owner of a PR agency, publisher and long-time member of Kultur Im Ghetto.
Vusi Mchunu
South African Director
Poet, film-maker and heritage practitioner Vusi Macingwane Mchunu spent 16 years in exile in Berlin, returning to South African in 1992.