British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare offers us a mongrelised vision for the future with his new hybrid forms
Retrieving indigenous knowledge through storytelling and exploring transdisciplinary visioning in Africa will enable new way of thinking about sustainable futures
The two nations have a significant post-colonial parallel: Widely lauded success followed by economic and political chaos.
Edited extract of the editors’ introduction in ‘Sol Plaatje’s Native Life in South Africa: Past and Present’ (Wits University Press).
South Africa is another example of post-colonial optimism being tempered by reality’s bitter pill.
This campaign feeds the “black diamond” obsession that focuses on the success of a few black people at the expense of the poor and unemployed.