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/ 13 November 2009
Despite our carnivorous cultural heritage, more and more South Africans are converting to vegetarianism, writes Percy Zvomuya.
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/ 6 November 2009
Kenyan author Mukoma wa Ngugi’s novel forces us to question received narratives and conventional wisdom.
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/ 30 October 2009
Theatre may be reflecting new power relations, but are we debating or laughing at stereotypes? Percy Zvomuya wonders
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/ 23 October 2009
Whether or not you’re excited about the future of photography, there’s no denying the central role it plays in the art scene.
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/ 15 October 2009
Zimbabwean artist Kudzanai Chiurai is a multidimensional investigator of the African present. Percy Zvomuya reports.
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/ 12 October 2009
Read Percy Zvomuya’s guide to the work of the late great Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño.
<i>Chimurenga</i> is bringing musos from all over Africa to Cape Town for a month-long series of activities with music at its centre.
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/ 28 September 2009
Zimbabwean rapper Samm Farai Monro describes himself as "one of the most explosive and controversial acts" in the region.
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/ 27 September 2009
Percy Zvomuya is entranced by a Guyana-born writer’s careful exploration of slavery and how it gave rise to ardent religiosity.
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/ 26 September 2009
The black body is not suited to ballet, dancer Thoriso Magongwa was told by choreographer Martin Schönberg at the Ballet Theatre Afrikan.
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/ 25 September 2009
Publisher Tainie Mundondo talks about some challenges facing African publishing ahead of an Arts Alive panel discussion in Newtown on Saturday.
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/ 23 September 2009
Percy Zvomuya spoke to high school and university students born in or after 1987 and asked them about their attitudes to race.
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/ 23 September 2009
Soprano opera artist Loveline Madumo, one of the first black opera singers in Suth Africa, was first exposed to classical music by Bernard, her violin
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/ 11 September 2009
Wole Soyinka, the wisecracking writer with the grizzled hair, has lived a full, eventful life, as documented in a film about his life.
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/ 8 September 2009
<em>Not Untrue & Not Unkind</em>, the memoirs of a foreign correspondent in Africa, has its own unique grace and authority.
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/ 8 September 2009
Percy Zvomuya ponders whether this multilayered account of Zimbabwe’s recent past should be considered as fact or fiction.
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/ 5 September 2009
The world’s first isiXhosa boxing feature film lacks punch, writes Percy Zvomuya
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/ 4 September 2009
Percy Zvomuya reviews <i>The Thing Around Your Neck</i>, the new collection of short stories by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
Percy Zvomuya chats to poets Keorapetse Kgositsile and Lesego Rampolokeng about literacy and mimicry ahead of this year’s Jozi Spoken Word Festival.
The Eastern Cape launch of Thando Mgqolozana’s book, <i>A Man Who Is Not a Man</i>, was anything but dull.
A man shuffled up to me in the media room in Grahamstown on Thursday and abruptly asked who I was and which newspaper I wrote for.
Dance is suggestive of physical energy, of a body in continuous and rhythmic movement. Poetry operates in much the same way.
Many will remember this year’s National Arts Festival as a body fest.
The play <i>Hayani</i> is an evocative recollection of childhood by actor and director John Kani’s son, Atandwa, and Nat Ramabulana.
Monday night at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown saw the uniting of Ronald Snijders and United States-born Salim Washington.
The global economic crisis has resulted in a paradigm shift in which the "rich and powerful have been humbled", Eskom chairperson Bobby Godsell says.
The ghost of the fragile government of national unity in Zimbabwe hovers over the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown in <i>Woza Joshua!</i>.
The response to Darfur is infused with moral, not political rage.
Percy Zvomuya talks to three young people to find out what the future looks like through the eyes of this generation.
Businessman and political commentator Moeletsi Mbeki launched <i>Architects of Poverty</i> (Picador) at the Cape Town Book Fair.
The book was published after the death of the Chilean- Spanish writer in 2003, aged 50, the 900- page novel is in five parts
Through theatre ordinary people can address difficult issues, writes Percy Zvomuya.