From 27 February to 2 March 2025, The Centre presented the renowned musical odyssey, African Exodus, at the Perelman Performing Arts Center (PAC) in New York City.

This was the North American debut of African Exodus and was incredibly well-received by audiences and critics alike.

Preceding African Exodus on the Lobby Stage each evening was Sounds of Limpopo, a free-to-the-public, two-man musical performance exploring the rhythmic patterns and sounds of the natural world using an array of instruments and bodily percussion. 

Also part of the programme at PAC was an In Conversation between Senegalese philosopher and scholar Souleymane Bachir Diagne, and Impresario for the Less Good Idea, Neo Muyanga, which followed the February 28th performance. Leveraging off the themes of identity, culture, and migration implicit in African Exodus, and its performance debut in North America, Muyanga and Diagne discussed, among other things, the shared musical traditions between Africa and the United States of America, and the history of migration between the two.

Photographer | Stephanie Berger