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Malibongwe: Tending our mothers’ garden

Friday Uhuru Phalafala - 8 Aug 2020

Part of the efforts to republish this anthology of ANC women’s poetry, Uhuru Phalafala writes of its significance.

Online fairs change art market

Coronavirus Mary Corrigall - 7 Aug 2020

Covid-19 could have a positive effect on the quality of artistic fare.

‘Courageous reinvention’: an extract from Mark Gevisser’s ‘The Pink Line’

Friday Mark Gevisser - 7 Aug 2020

In this extract from Mark Gevisser’s new book, Aunty, fleeing abuse and witchcraft, treks to northern Malawi

The List: Five low-budget films selected by Tim Greene

Friday Tim Greene - 6 Aug 2020

Cabin Fever writer and director Tim Greene, whose filmography includes crowd-funded movie A Boy Called Twist (2004) and Skeem (2011), runs down some of his favourite low-budget films

The Portfolio: Slindile Mthembu

Friday Slindile Mthembu - 6 Aug 2020

Theatre-maker Slindile Mthembu has taken the plunge of reformatting her play, Igama?, for film, so that it can reach a wider audience

Cellphones, Covid-19 and zoom calls: The making of ‘Cabin Fever’

Friday Kwanele Sosibo - 5 Aug 2020

‘Cabin Fever’, written, directed and produced by Tim Greene, was filmed on cellphones during the hard lockdown earlier this year. It’s a no-budget triumph

The list: Athi-Patra Ruga’s constant reinvention

Friday Athi-Patra Ruga - 1 Aug 2020

Characters have been a central part to Athi-Patra Ruga’s practice since the early days of his artistic career. Here he lets us in on their backstories

Review: ‘Ikhaya Likamoya’ by Sethembiso Zulu — Ties that bind us all

Friday Robyn Sassen - 1 Aug 2020

Multimedia journalist and healer Sethembiso Zulu’s debut solo show embraces a fierce, raw and broken timelessness that encapsulates what it means to be human

Athi-Patra Ruga’s new exhibition: The stain at the end of rainbow

Friday Kwanele Sosibo - 31 Jul 2020

Athi-Patra Ruga’s latest exhibition, ‘Interior/Exterior/ Dramatis Personae’, takes his characters on transformative journeys

Review: Biodun Olumuyiwa’s ‘In a Journey of Dreams’ is both timely and timeless

Friday Idowu Omoyele - 30 Jul 2020

Biodun Olumuyiwa has been writing since the late 1980s, but has only recently published his debut poetry collection

The Portfolio: Naftali

Friday Naftali - 28 Jul 2020

Naftali has just released his debut single, ‘Kea Shwa’. He tells us a bit about his music-making journey.

Excerpt: Akurakuda by Olalekan Jeyifous and Wale Lawal

Friday Mpho Matsipa - 28 Jul 2020

‘Akurakuda’, a graphic novel by Olalekan Jeyifous and Wale Lawal is set in a futuristic Lagos that acknowledges the resilience of dispossessed people

On bioclimatic architecture: ‘We have our own science, but we have forgotten how to transmit it’

Friday Mpho Matsipa - 23 Jul 2020

This conversation between Mpho Matsipa and Mamadou Jean-Charles Tall, focusing on bio-climatic architecture in Senegal, is part of the larger African Mobilities project

The Portfolio: Global Africa Lab

Friday Global Africa Lab - 22 Jul 2020

A project by Global Africa Lab explores the future of Black neighbourhoods affected by gentrification in New York City

Extractive histories and a waste-laden present: On Sammy Baloji’s Essay on Urban Planning

Friday Mpho Matsipa & Sindi-Leigh McBride - 21 Jul 2020

Congolese photographer Sammy Baloji’s Essay on Urban Planning interrogates the links between colonialism, extractive practices and environmental catastrophes in Urban Africa