“It is born from the power that has entered your heart. “This is the sound that comes from the world of the spirits,” she says. Rather, an unnamed sage corrects him and reminds him that it is a blessing. “It won’t stop.” He believes it to be a spell. “I hear it, day and night, like a heartbeat,” says the story’s narrator, played by the 22 year-old Transkei surfer Avuyile Ndamase. Woza (“Come,” in the Zula language), tells the story of a young African surfer who is sieged by his attraction to Mami Wata, manifesting in the sounds of the ocean. She historically appears in African culture as a mermaid who takes her lovers hostage and transforms them with a new spirit, making them a more successful and better-looking version of themselves. “Mami Wata” is West African pidgin English for “Mama Water”, or Mother Ocean.
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