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Aliens in Lagos: sci-fi novel Lagoon offers a bold new future

Friday Gibson Ncube - 27 Feb 2021

Nnedi Okorafor’s ‘Lagoon’ is an immersive reimagining of Nigerian society that transports us into a future where queerness is normalised

Lerato Shadi: The body, the land and the toll of unsung labour

Friday Kwanele Sosibo - 27 Feb 2021

The artist continues to give voice to unrecognised labour through her expanding practice that includes durational performance, installation and video work

‘Pictures From the Inside’: The power of the thinking photograph

Friday Michelle Harris - 27 Feb 2021

Through the Lens Collective works away from the ‘instant’ photographer and the exploitative history of the medium

‘Ethos’ and ‘Caryatis’ by George Tatakis reveal a rich tapestry of Greek tradition

Friday Kwanele Sosibo - 20 Feb 2021

As he travels the length and breadth of the country, George Tatakis uses a painterly approach to photography that breathes new life into the traditions and culture of rural Greece

‘I wanted to get to the soul’: Dick Fontaine on his approach to documentary filmmaking

Friday Sandile Ngidi - 20 Feb 2021

After pioneering ‘truth cinema’ and at least 40 documentary films later, British director and producer Dick Fontaine has settled in Durban

Afro Story: Africana at the push of a button

Friday Kwanele Sosibo - 20 Feb 2021

A new reading app plans to make relevant literature easily available

The monstrous mental asylum: Lewis Nkosi writing home

Friday Sandile Ngidi - 13 Feb 2021

Apartheid SA’s madness, as diagnosed in the exiled author’s subversive texts, was the result of colonialism’s psychological violence

The many meanings of water: The elements in Thobani K’s photography

Friday Niamh Walsh-Vorster - 13 Feb 2021

Influenced by family history and the legacy of apartheid spatial zoning, Thobani K’s photographs are sociopolitically engaged

The Portfolio: Wezile Mgibe

Friday Wezile Mgibe - 13 Feb 2021

Drawn to collaboration, Wezile Mgibe seeks new ways of performing and presenting his work

Racism has a physical impact on the black body

Friday Nina G. Jablonski - 13 Feb 2021

While the effects of racism on the body are still coming into fuller view, the information is enough to eclipse outdated nature vs nurture debates

American Skin and the allure of redemption narratives

Friday Kwanele Sosibo - 13 Feb 2021

American Skin is drowned by its own ambitions, which are at odds with the moment it seeks to reckon with

Tonight we are not going to sleep: Extracts from ‘a naked bone’ by Mangaliso Buzani

Friday Mangaliso Buzani - 10 Feb 2021

These extracts from poet Mangaliso Buzani’s book of poetry, ‘a naked bone’, traverse the boundaries between life and death

Book extract: ‘Rattling the Cage: Reflections on Democratic South Africa’

Friday Brent Meersman - 8 Feb 2021

A lack of solidarity with gay people in the townships echoes the indifference of liberals during apartheid

Keeping Mauritius the paradise it is meant to be

Friday Mehryne Annooar - 6 Feb 2021

Meet the designers working to create a circular future for the island

The Portfolio: Geoff Dyer

Friday Geoff Dyer - 5 Feb 2021

In this extract from But Beautiful, the writer Geoff Dyer reflects on how photographs ‘work on you’

How Babette’s Feast illuminates migrants’ stories

Friday Darryl Accone - 5 Feb 2021

‘Babette’s Feast’ by Isak Dinesen delves into the minutiae of 1870s migration through a Frenchwoman who finds herself living in Norway, where she is denied her artistic passion

The state of the (performing) arts: Theatres try to find their groove

Friday Atiyyah Khan - 5 Feb 2021

Theatres are opening (and closing) again in fits and starts, driven by a fierce determination to bounce back

The Insider’s guide to travelling without moving: Power, empathy and threads that connect at the Göteborg Film Festival

Friday Niren Tolsi - 5 Feb 2021

Niren Tolsi returns to a time before the pandemic brought on travel restrictions to ponder what is being lost in a world that is confined to itself

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