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from Alternate African Reality – Electronic, electroacoustic and experimental music from Africa and the diaspora, released January 29, 2020
Beko The Storyteller (eSwatini)

Ralph Smit, a key figure in Swaziland’s alternative, traditional and improvised music scene, has been actively creating a niche to promote alternative projects and collaboration of local and international artists. Growing up in Swaziland he picked up a number of traditional instruments before dedicating a large amount of time to the trumpet, improvisation and electronics. He has played in a diverse amount of settings spanning film, dance, theatre and installation.
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Swazi creative Nontobeko “Beko The Storyteller” Dlamini is an arts practitioner wearing many hats as a poet, storyteller, theatre performer, playwright, screenwriter, organiser and social activist.
Beko has released her extended play titled "Strong as Black Coffee". She has also written a winning screenplay under Kwasukasukela The Swazi Story Project.
In 2013, she wrote and acted in her monologue titled "Am I Brilliant" which won the first prize at the Matiwane Manana Performing Arts Festival, in the drama category. In addition, in 2009 she wrote and acted on a locally produced pilot project by Swazi Television, directed by a South African director of the renowned Stovel sitcom. A co-founder of Arts Awake, an alumna of the UNISWA Drama Society and UNISWA Poetry Society, Beko is passionate about the growth of the Arts Industry in eSwatini and is also involved in grass roots initiatives that foster the development and promotion of the arts for social and economic development in eSwatini.
She performed at the Joyous Celebration Tour of Swaziland 19, the UNISA Storytelling Festival, the Francophone Festival and the Arts Awake shows. She draws inspiration from a vast spectrum of social issues, gender issues, identity culture, Through her art work she does not only aim to reach beyond the stars but also reach hearts. aw energy released when her pages meet the stage. Her soulful words and stage presence leaves her listeners spellbound and begging for more.
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