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Bongani Madondo
Ma Rainey robbed of complexity on a ‘Negro’ path leading nowhere
Friday
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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
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Black rebels among the blue bloods of liberalism
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Bongani Madondo
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20 Dec 2019
Bongani Madondo says the meltdown amid racial witch-hunting portends the beginning of the end of white liberalism itself
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I just can’t stop lovin’ you
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Bongani Madondo
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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
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Cast the first stone: Our Mary Magdalene of the townships
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Bongani Madondo
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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
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Winnie: Our Love Supreme
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Bongani Madondo
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13 Apr 2018
Bongani Madondo on the transitional path of Winnie Mandela from a Princess YamaNgutyana emaMpondweni into ‘Winnie The Great’
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Our favourite further mucker
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Bongani Madondo
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2 Feb 2018
The ‘man boy of all ages’ was one of the very best that South Africa – and the world – had to offer
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Buyel’Ekhaya Mtase: This land of ours shrouded in song
Article
Bongani Madondo
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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
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Seer with the devil’s voice now hangs out with angels
Article
Bongani Madondo
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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.
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Shared memories reunite Africa and the Americas on black magic spiritual flights
Article
Bongani Madondo
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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.'
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From shaman to star man: Bongani Madondo has an audience with Sanusi Credo Mutwa
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Bongani Madondo
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29 Jul 2016
Bongani Madondo takes a trip across the Kalahari to meet the man and peek into his futuristic past.
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Year 2015: The Naafians have landed. Flee or fight?
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Bongani Madondo
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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.
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Class edition: Once we were ‘The Madondos’ – the special ones
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25 Sep 2014
Writer Bongani Madondo relates how books have eased the psychic pain of his class-conscious family.
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