NDUMISO FEATURES IN BARAKAT MOVIE

MBABANE – Fresh from being part of a Grammy award-winning album, Ndumiso Manana has now been featured as a songwriter in a newly-released South African movie, Barakat.

Manana is a liSwati music producer and songwriter of note who is currently based in neighbouring South Africa and has since made a name for himself to date. Notably, he has worked with Burna Boy, a Nigerian Grammy Award-winning artist whom he featured in his album ‘Twice As Tall’. ‘Twice as Tall’ is widely considered the Naija artist’s most mainstream offering to date. The 15-track album includes features from Naughty By Nature, Stormzy, Chris Martin, Sauti Sol and Youssou N’Dour. Manana was part of the artists who helped in the writing of one of the songs titled ‘Time Flies’ which was part of the album.

He worked with the well-known Sauti Sol from Kenya. They are an afro pop band formed in Nairobi. In an interview with Manana, when asked how the feature came about, he said he had studied with the music supervisor of the movie in college and he approached him wanting to make music for the project. “We then shared ideas with him and that is when we worked together and obviously they loved my work, which is why it’s in the movie,” he said. The 27 year-old further said despite the COVID-19 pandemic, he was honored and privileged to have been part of such a big project and for the producers and directors of the movie to acknowledge his work.

“It really has been a great year for me despite the coronavirus and its restrictions I have been able to put out a few projects of my own that I have been proud of and this is one of them. It truly is an honour and I feel privileged,” said Mañana. According to news24.com, the movie Barakat, which will be out in South African cinemas this May, stars veteran actress Vinette Ebrahim as matriarch Aisha Davids, a widow who has to preserve the peace between four sons struggling to come to terms with the death of their father, two years later.

Celebrate

Zunaid, Zaid, Yaseen and Nur return to their family home to celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr (or Labarang, as it’s called in Cape Town), the celebration that marks the end of the month-long dawn-to-sunset fasting of Ramadaan. They’ve never dealt with their father’s death and the void he has left behind. Joey Rasdien, Mortimer Williams, Keeno-Lee Hector and Danny Ross play the roles of the four sons. Other cast members include Quanita Adams, Bonnie Mbuli, Leslie Fong and June van Merch.

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