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Sindi-Leigh McBride
Sindi-Leigh McBride is a research assistant for African Mobilities and and writer from Johannesburg, currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Basel. Her essays, art writing and short stories have appeared in Africa's a Country, Bubblegum Club, Prufrock, the Mail & Guardian and more.
Extractive histories and a waste-laden present: On Sammy Baloji’s Essay on Urban Planning
Congolese photographer Sammy Baloji’s Essay on Urban Planning interrogates the links between colonialism, extractive practices and environmental catastrophes in Urban Africa
Bibles, bombs and God as love
I am an African and an Anglican and I don’t buy into the idea that Christianity has colonised African spirituality
Best of the jazz fest in Cape Town this weekend
Sindi-Leigh McBride recommends who to look out for at the Cape Town International Jazz Festival.
Low-key for the woke gang
Ericka Huggins, member of the Black Panther Party, advocated for needs-based activism in Cape Town
Of love, loss and watermelons …
When in Obs obnoxious hippies are a given — but sometimes you can meet the love of your life and lose them just as swiftly