Boudina McConnachie

Boudina McConnachie (PhD, PGCE, RULS) is a lecturer in ethnomusicology at Rhodes University in Grahamstown with a particular interest in African musical arts pedagogy. She co-ordinates various music education courses through the Rhodes University Education Faculty and is integrally involved in the teaching and learning programme at the International Library of African Music (ILAM). Boudina completed her undergraduate music degree majoring in African music (uhadi and mbira) and was a music teacher at a government school in the Eastern Cape for over ten years. Her current research focusses on the disconnect between tertiary and basic education institutions with regard to African musical arts and the relevance of teacher-education. She has written two books, Listen and Learn, Music Made Easy (2012) and My Music, My Classroom- Umculo Wam, Iklasi Yam (2016) and contributed towards the development of a Marimba Ensemble Teaching and Learning Guide (2016) for the NGO, Access Music Project (AMP). Boudina believes that every child is South Africa has the right to be proud of, and access, music from their own culture.