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‘Lesedi’: A bright star alights on Lulu Mlangeni

Friday Sarah Roberson - 5 Jul 2020

On stage hers is the powerful body always rippling with refined movement quality. Thanks to the documentary film on the vNAF programme, we learn that off stage Lulu Mlangeni's as powerful a force.

Ramon’s music is reliable and relatable

Friday Percy Mabandu - 5 Jul 2020

Rooted in the Cape Town sound, Ramon Alexander celebrates it’s genealogy

Review: ‘Vukazithathe’, a portrait of the maskandi artist as a mentor and friend

Friday Dave Mann - 4 Jul 2020

Nthato Mokgata’s documentary ‘Vukazithate’, showing online at the National Arts Festival, tells an intimate story of his mentor and maskandi legend, Bhekisenzo “Vukazithathe” Cele

The Portfolio: David Phume

Friday David Phume - 3 Jul 2020

Animator, roboticist and artist David Phume is on a mission to show that technology is not just for the geniuses in Silicon Valley

Review: ‘Making Grace Amazing’ — songs of resistance

Friday Nkgopoleng Moloi - 3 Jul 2020

Neo Muyanga’s ‘Making Grace Amazing’ is one of the online offerings at this year’s National Arts Festival in Makhanda

Review: ‘Swan Song’, a brutally vulnerable performance

Friday Sarah Roberson - 3 Jul 2020

Buhle Ngaba’s ‘Swan Song’, showing online at the virtual National Arts Festival, explores the rawness of heartbreak, and of life

Five must-read books by Ghanaian writers

Friday Sylvia Arthur - 3 Jul 2020

Sylvia Arthur, the founder of the Library of African and the African Diaspora in Accra, selects five works by her favourite Ghanaian authors

Meet the founder of Accra’s one-woman library

Friday Theresa Mallinson - 3 Jul 2020

Sylvia Arthur founded the Library for Africa and the African Diaspora to house her collection and share it with other readers

Part III: Afropessimism and rituals of anti-Black violence

Friday Zamansele Nsele - 2 Jul 2020

The final part of Zamansele Nsele’s interview with Frank B Wilderson expands on some of the thinking in his latest book, ‘Afropessimism’

‘Ngibambeni, ngibambeni bomama!’ Refiguring Princess Magogo

Friday Kholeka Shange - 2 Jul 2020

The official historiography of Princess Magogo misses the nuances and influences of the many women in her life

Dancer and queer rights activist Kirvan Fortuin’s final farewell

Friday Carl Collison - 1 Jul 2020

The slain dancer and choreographer was so much more than an internationally celebrated artist. They were also a proud queer rights activist and a beloved child and friend

The foundations of Afropessimism: A reading list by Frank B Wilderson III

Friday Frank B Wilderson III - 30 Jun 2020

Frank B Wilderson III recommends five pioneering books that contribute to the Afropessimist school of thought

Beyoncé and the Heart of Darkness

Friday Boluwatife Akinro & Joshua Segun-Lean - 30 Jun 2020

Few black thinkers and creatives in the United States seem able to grapple with the implications of their Americocentrism in relation to Africa

Please don’t celebrate me: Nothing hurts more

Friday Zinaid Meeran - 30 Jun 2020

The Netflix series Sex Education shows that whether you’re celebrating or vilifying “the Other”, it’s all part of the same subjugation

Oh Shucks, an accidental blackface hero

Friday Phumlani Pikoli - 28 Jun 2020

Leon Schuster is having a few movies of his removed from Showmax and Phumlani Pikoli figures: what better time to reflect on this bruh than now?

Part II: ‘Afropessimism’ and the rituals of anti-black violence

Friday Zamansele Nsele - 27 Jun 2020

Frank B Wilderson discusses 'Afropessimism', his memoir that analyses structural violence

Part I: ‘Afropessimism’ and the rituals of anti-black violence

Article Zamansele Nsele - 24 Jun 2020

Frank B Wilderson discusses 'Afropessimism', his memoir that analyses structural violence

The things Hollywood taught us to think about trans existences

Friday Zaza Hlalethwa - 24 Jun 2020

Disclosure, a Netflix documentary examines the world's transphobic legacy as portrayed in film and television from as early as 1901

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