Creator
Lindokuhle Nkosi
Lindokuhle Nkosi, a writer from South Africa whose work textual work often merges with installation and performance. She has written for Mahala, Chimurenga, Africa Is A Country, City Press, Elephant Magazine, Red Bulletin, and Timeslive, and she has curated exhibitions and projects at galleries and in the public space. While floating across different genres – journalistic, reflective, experimental – her work is consistently insightful, rich in textures, and engaged with realities.
Miriam Makeba: 9 passports, no pass
In this poetic commentary on Dathini Mzayiya’s video portrait of Miriam Makeba, Lindokuhle Nkosi inscribes moments of death, spiritual calling, sorrow and exile born by Makeba,…
What we talk about when we talk about Caster Semenya
Semenya’s fight tells us much about how the world sees black women, especially as they compete for gold.
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Worming into the guts of the unseen
The exhibition ‘Options’ is a search by artist Nolan Oswald Dennis for humanity
Music casts light on Isandlwana
A historian is providing a new take on a battle that still rages on today over fact and fiction
But some of us are brave
Athi-Patra Ruga’s ‘Queens in Exile’is on at Whatiftheworld Gallery in Cape Town on. Writer Lindokuhle Nkosi contributes to Ruga’s monography
Blooming from where you once bled
Black Love is Radical Empathy. It is decoloniality in praxis. It is critical compassion.
Curling lips, speaking tongues — Thandiswa Mazwai in tune at 40
Poet and singer Thandiswa Mazwai talks about intensity, integrity and sitting at the feet of your master
Where does it hurt?
The first day of the third Black Portraitures conference featured a panel titled “ Our Lives as Theory: LGBTQI & African… remixed".
But why are their boobs out?
There’s a proud history of women using their bodies as ‘weapons’ of protest that predates #FeesMustFall.
Thundercat and the unidentified H.E.R. in this week’s The Lists
The Lists this week were compiled by M&G contributor Lindokuhle Nkosi
Dineo Seshee Bopape: The madness of the holes in the whole
The South African performance artist explores madness, myths and mirrors in her first solo exhibition in the United States.
The Tarot will teach you
Meditations on art and healing.
Black artists must hitch their wagon to BEE
From the fate of establishments like Keleketla! Library and Slaghuis to investing in black arts, Lindokuhle Nkosi zooms in on black creative spaces.
Carbon copy: The aesthetics of duplication
Sisters Noncedo and Nonzuzo Gxekwa explore their life experience as twins in their photo documentary work ‘Carbon Copy’.
The struggle is in the songs
Several artists are reminding us that protest music has always been at the heart of the revolution.