When Sound Becomes Memory: A Night of Ancestral Music at Togo Jazz Festival

Some performances entertain. Others feel like they remember something for you. At the 2026 edition of the Togo Jazz Festival, Esinam Dogbatse and Sibusile Xaba stepped onto the stage and dissolved the usual boundaries between artist and audience. What unfolded wasn’t easily contained within genre—it felt closer to a ritual, one shaped by memory, migration, … Continue reading When Sound Becomes Memory: A Night of Ancestral Music at Togo Jazz Festival