Women worldwide have fearlessly fought against sexual discrimination and maltreatment. Daniel Mengara, a Gabonese author, champions their outcry with his novel Mema, which adroitly portrays the gloomy life many African women lead. Leseli Mokhele reviews.

”I first encountered Yoko Ono’s work at a big exhibition at the Riverside Gallery in London. It was some time in the late 1980s, when I was at art college. I liked her work immediately, because it was beyond any genre or categories I had seen before”. Yoko Ono, who turns 71 on February 18, is a household name. But no one knows how good she is as an artist, writes Sam Taylor-Wood.

Three new local albums feature the handiwork of some of our best DJs and producers. Thebe Mabanga lends an ear to House Afrika’s Mzansi House, House of T Bose Volume 2 and Glen Lewis’s Sgubu sa Mamapela.

MOVIE OF THE WEEK: ”After one single viewing of Kill Bill Volume I — Quentin Tarantino’s first movie for six years — I felt like the director himself had cacklingly jammed his hypodermic into my throbbing arm.” Our critics disagree: Is Quentin Tarantino’s new, much-hyped movie, Kill Bill Volume I, deliriously thrilling or deadly boring, asks Peter Bradshaw.

In the face of considerable revisionism in the way the Jewish community’s response to apartheid is being portrayed in a number of forums, among them Cape Town’s Jewish Museum, Gideon Shimoni’s dense and considered work serves as an antidote to overdoses of self-congratulation, writes Pat Schwartz.