Zara Julius / KONJO

KONJO is a pan-African creative research and cultural consultancy that curates, facilitates and produces moments of cross-cultural creative connection within South Africa.

With a large network of musical and visual artists, KONJO decenters the written word in cultural production, and considers the ways music, art and performance possess significant archival vitality and potential. Drawing on the spirit of fugitivity and ingenuity, we are committed to a compassionate and deliberate curation, creative direction and production of immersive and experienced-based projects across genre and medium. Meaning ‘beautiful’ in Amharic, KONJO is born from a frustration with the limited exchange of knowledge and cultural collaboration across the African continent and our diaspora, and aims to centre ‘otherwise’ narratives through the beauty of creative productions that hold cross-cultural collaboration and cultural mobility at the core.