Bongani Madondo

Ma Rainey robbed of complexity on a ‘Negro’ path leading nowhere

Friday Bongani Madondo - 16 Jan 2021

The life of blues pioneer Gertrude ‘Ma’ Rainey and her song Black Bottom have been turned into a film. Bongani Madondo laments its anticlimax

Black rebels among the blue bloods of liberalism

Article Bongani Madondo - 20 Dec 2019

Bongani Madondo says the meltdown amid racial witch-hunting portends the beginning of the end of white liberalism itself

I just can’t stop lovin’ you

Article Bongani Madondo - 18 Apr 2019

Michael Jackson’s fans worshipped him even after his death — until Leaving Neverland. Bongani Madondo writes about dealing with a fallen god

Cast the first stone: Our Mary Magdalene of the townships

Article Bongani Madondo - 13 Apr 2018

A feast to paint Winnie Madikizela-Mandela as a black nationalist loony and a woman of loose morals kicked into gear even before her body was cold

Winnie: Our Love Supreme

Article Bongani Madondo - 13 Apr 2018

Bongani Madondo on the transitional path of Winnie Mandela from a Princess YamaNgutyana emaMpondweni into ‘Winnie The Great’

Our favourite further mucker

Article Bongani Madondo - 2 Feb 2018

The ‘man boy of all ages’ was one of the very best that South Africa – and the world – had to offer

Buyel’Ekhaya Mtase: This land of ours shrouded in song

Article Bongani Madondo - 5 Jan 2018

Amid the fratricidal political mayhem threatening to rip the soul of the country asunder, a music festival proposes that local is the national

Seer with the devil’s voice now hangs out with angels

Article Bongani Madondo - 17 Nov 2016

Leonard Cohen’s songs evoked the mystical incantations of Bongani Madondo’s youth, but also voodooed music and poetry into a profound creative ritual.

Shared memories reunite Africa and the Americas on black magic spiritual flights

Article Bongani Madondo - 9 Sep 2016

'If you believe Mutwa is given to buck-wild conspiracies I have an antibiotic fer ya in four words: Dr Ivan van Sertima.'

From shaman to star man: Bongani Madondo has an audience with Sanusi Credo Mutwa

Article Bongani Madondo - 29 Jul 2016

Bongani Madondo takes a trip across the Kalahari to meet the man and peek into his futuristic past.

Year 2015: The Naafians have landed. Flee or fight?

Article Bongani Madondo - 2 Apr 2015

Bongani Madondo on the fictional Naafians's dark nights - in the shadow of a sacred mountain in the southwestern district of the Z'aniaa Republic.

Class edition: Once we were ‘The Madondos’ – the special ones

Article Bongani Madondo - 25 Sep 2014

Writer Bongani Madondo relates how books have eased the psychic pain of his class-conscious family.

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Unpacking the 2021 SoNA

Wits scientist on global commission that cautions against using gene-edited embryos for pregnancy