Afrofuturism

Lack of funds prevent provinces from carrying out their mandate to manage public library services

Fak’ugesi 2025 turns South Africa’s digital paradox into a creative power surge, spotlighting African innovators who are rewriting the global tech narrative

Set in 3025, Cape Town Opera’s Aida reinvents itself for a new generation but the voices and the music remain timeless

An edited extract from Craig Foster’s memoir, Amphibious Soul

The avant-garde music transcends boundaries, blending healing sounds and community roots

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Architects, fashion designers and tastemakers descend on Johannesburg’s premium design event

With a theatre background and a long history as a bandleader, Durban-based emcee Manelis is always thinking about how his messaging can be translated visually

Curating the End of the World deploys Afrofuturism to respond to Covid-19, anti-black violence and capitalism

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

Simphiwe Ndzube’s solo show in Cape Town offers no easy answers to deracinated utopias

‘Intruders’ is the effort of an author putting in work for her generation.

Composer and free-form cultural thinker Thokozani Ndumiso Mhlambi plucks some chords with Alexandra Dodd in advance of his performance in Cape Town

"The resolve to create a believable AI from a South African perspective is convention-shifting."

A peek into the enigma that is Afrofuturism shows differing views – from patronising to progressive of what it means to be black in the 21st century.