A new book probes the life and times of Thomas Mapfumo, Zimbabwe’s hailed chimurenga music pioneer.
The legendary vocalist talks about her skirmish with American DJ Osunlade and the influence of South African house music.
The guy who killed Cosby is struggling for life after his deadly joke.
Zanele Muholi’s latest work finds the activist photographer turning the camera on herself.
It’s becoming clear that local audiences feel uncomfortable hearing too much honesty or activism from the people they are paying to make them laugh.
Ava Vidal is a comedian who doesn’t shy away from the truth, regardless of comedic trends.
Graeme Williams returns to track changes in the city in colour.
Four Small Gods is a comic-tragedy about four animals in a boat after a mammoth flood. John Withers explains how jazz influenced the sound design.
The continent’s artists boldly took on gender politics and greed at last week’s contemporary dance fest
Hazel Crampton does well to outline the colonial mythmaking around marijuana but her book, Dagga: A Short History, still comes across as incomplete.