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Donato Somma is a senior lecturer in Music in the Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. His research areas include the persistence of opera in Africa, from its forms and functions in the larger politics to the spaces and infrastructures that house it. Underpinning this is an interest in memory and narration and their relation to the fractured histories of South Africa.
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