African Noise Foundation has announced the selection of the South African documentary Unyazi of the Bushveld for screening in the prestigious Columbia University Columbia Harlem Festival of Global Jazz Documentary Film. The 45 minute documentary is directed by Aryan Kaganof.

The Zulu word "unyazi" can be translated into English as "lightning," an apposite double image of rupture and new beginnings. Kaganof's documentary on this singular historical event is suitably non-linear in structure, as it explores the complex relationship, both assumed and actual, among technology, the African and Afrodiasporic worlds, and the multiculturalism that mediates them.

“ Kaganof explains the essence of the documentary thus: “We are presented with a vision freed from the romantically anti-technological stances of the early N’gritude movement (and that of 1960s American black cultural nationalisms), and the concomitant assumptions that nothing of a technological nature can emerge from a black-ruled world. But we are never far from South Africa's recent history. Until 2005, jazz drummer Louis Moholo, exiled since the early 1960s, had never been on the campus of Johannesburg's University of the Witwatersrand -- or rather, as he commented drily, ‘We came, but they chased us off with dogs. That was 1962’."