Thaba Bosiu - The Musical

“The Musical Book of Our Stories”

The mountains true life is the life of not just birds, pebbles, trees, wells, and the soil… but a jaw-dropping alluring existence of ritualistic expressions, that include inherited stories, traditional poems, cultural celebratory songs, and war-dance moves that can depict the trials, tribulations, and triumphant lives of the people [batho]. What if the actual mountain unearths and cultivates itself into a perfect human metaphor that re-embodies itself through Bo’nkgono-nkgono [great-grandmothers].

What if Bo’nkgono-nkgono re-birth themselves as this mountain we can climb, see, hear, touch, and feel?
Could it be that through dipina, diboko, dithoko, difela le ditshomo Bo’nkgono-nkgono re-birth and reincarnate as Thaba Bosiu (the-mountain-of-the-night) … to display a rainbow of diverse cultures and traditions that are a cross between the existence, experience, screams and dreams of Morena Moshoeshoe (I) the founder of Batho-Ba-Sootho?

Is it possible for Bo’nkgono-nkgono through narrative myths and magic rise-up to mirror the imaginative face of Morena Moshoeshoe (I), the one who drew together the scattered Basotho people who had been driven apart by both the Zulu and Ndebele raids, and created Lesotho, which became the Basotho Kingdom. Imagine three strong feminine voices re-tell of Thaba Bosiu (the-mountain-of-the-night) echoing to us to go tell it on the mountain!

For the mountain remains the same — unstoppable, unchangeable, and unmovable. Then imagen if one day Thaba Bosiu (the-mountain-of-the-night) turn around to bite, push, and throw you back down… so damn! hard that you recoil with pride who your people are.