Thembi Langa aka Sista Fayah

Sista Fayah is working on writing, singing and recording her first album, Africa Calling, which includes music about liberation, self-empowerment, and African awareness, for Africans at home and abroad. This album aims to be a bridge between Africa and the West, combining rap, reggae, and songs in her native tongue of Zulu to create a sense of unity and to portray a better picture of Africa than the one usually portrayed by mainstream media. This album pulls upon her experience as a South African facing the hardships of the apartheid struggle and later moving to the USA and seeing African Americans facing struggles no different from that of her homeland. She will distribute the album in South Africa as well as in the USA, and use it in classroom presentations and workshops to talk about unity and solidarity.