CollaboNation 2025 artists announced!

MTN Bushfire’s music collaboration project, CollaboNation, is back for a 3rd edition of “Uniting Africa through Music” with this year’s artists, Madala Kunene and Sibusile Xaba from South Africa, and Eswatini’s Tlale Makhene.

A dynamic expression of the arts development pillar under MTN Bushfire’s ‘Bring Your Fire’ call to action for positive social and environmental change, CollaboNation is an annual arts development project supported by MTN and produced by Bushfire Records.

Since inception, CollaboNation has connected and united the continent through a series of unique music collaborations, each one supporting the weaving together of Africa’s rich and diverse musical genres and facilitating linkages between cultural industries and networks. 

Every year, CollaboNation is complemented by a creative online content journey that invites audiences to witness the artists coming together for the first time to use their voices and share talents in creating magic in the studio.

Fans of African music are invited to follow the unfiltered and uplifting behind-the-scenes CollaboNation journey and engage with the compelling stories, creative process and powerful messaging behind the song created by Madala Kunene, Sibusile Xaba and Tlale Makhene.  These exclusive intimate in-studio snippets and short documentaries will be shared across CollaboNation’s social media pages on Instagram and Facebook, as well as MTN Bushfire’s YouTube page.

The song created by Madala Kunene, Sibusile Xaba and Tlale Makhene will be debuted on the MTN Bushfire stage to the festival’s multicultural audience of over 23,000 from 30 May—1 June, 2025. The song will be released after their performance on all major digital streaming platforms.

To follow this amazing collaborative journey with in-studio vids, artist reels, and other audio and visual releases leading up to MTN Bushfire 2025, simply follow “CollaboNation” on Facebook, Instagram, and @CollaboNation_ on Twitter as well as subscribing to the CollaboNation YouTube channel.