The ‘man boy of all ages’ was one of the very best that South Africa – and the world – had to offer
Amid the fratricidal political mayhem threatening to rip the soul of the country asunder, a music festival proposes that local is the national
Leonard Cohen’s songs evoked the mystical incantations of Bongani Madondo’s youth, but also voodooed music and poetry into a profound creative ritual.
‘If you believe Mutwa is given to buck-wild conspiracies I have an antibiotic fer ya in four words: Dr Ivan van Sertima.’
Bongani Madondo takes a trip across the Kalahari to meet the man and peek into his futuristic past.
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.
Writer Bongani Madondo relates how books have eased the psychic pain of his class-conscious family.
Okwui Enwezor: More about the man behind the ‘Rise and Fall of Apartheid: Photography and the Bureaucracy of Everyday Life’
Bongani Madondo searches for elegance in a vast exhibition of photographic material documenting life in apartheid South Africa.
Bongani Madondo puts on his voyeuristic shades to see how 2013 went tabloid.