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Greg Tate conducts members of the band Burnt Sugar, the Arkesta Chamber. (Photo: Getty Images)
BITCHES BREW

The Black Jesus of post-structuralism

The Bay Area writer and art curator Kwadwo Duane Deterville shares his thoughts on Greg Tate’s legacy and gifts to Black culture in the 20th entury

  • Kwadwo Duane Deterville
9 min read
Greg Tate conducting at the 2009 NYC Winter Jazzfest; Tate could call out Michael Jackson and name each facet of his gift in the same breath; bass player Charles Mingus. (Hiroyuki Ito/Getty; Patrick Kovarik/AFP and Bettmann)
ARTHUR JAFA

Greg Tate: Possessed by Mingus

When news of the passing of pre-eminent cultural critic Greg Tate reverberated around the globe, poet, choreographer and essayist Harmony Holiday composed an ode to his legacy

  • Harmony Holiday
7 min read
Nettrice Gaskins’ portrait of Greg Tate adorns a wall of the Museum of Contemporary African Disporan Arts. (Courtesy of the artist)
GREG TATE

Refiguring Tate: Exuberance in a silent way

Nettrice Gaskins’ image of writer, musician and producer Greg Tate graced the March 12 edition of the Mail & Guardian’s Friday section. It is a memorable, futuristic rendering of…

  • Bongani Madondo
8 min read
Greg Tate (right) plays the guitar in the company of friend Arthur Jafa during their college days in Howard University. (Photo: Courtest of the Tate family, photographer unknown)
GREG TATE

Indestructible beat of Soweto rock, WTF is Afropunk and ‘Jungle’ seizures

Among the many times Bongani Madondo and Greg Tate have passed the mic between themselves, was a conversation on the Blk Jks, the religious source of rock ’n roll and other…

  • Bongani Madondo
9 min read
In his latest novel
CREDO MUTWA

​Shared memories reunite Africa and the Americas on black magic spiritual flights

‘If you believe Mutwa is given to buck-wild conspiracies I have an antibiotic fer ya in four words: Dr Ivan van Sertima.’

  • Bongani Madondo
5 min read
BLACKLIVESMATTER

​Tate of the nation: Dissecting the ties that bind black Americans and South Africans

Ahead of a speaking tour of South Africa, cultural critic Greg Tate talks about #BlackLivesMatter and the burgeoning Afropunk aesthetic.

  • Kwanele Sosibo
7 min read