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Review: The eternal splendour of ‘Lovers Rock’

Friday Kwanele Sosibo - 20 Nov 2020

Steve McQueen’s ‘Lovers Rock’, part of the ‘Small Axe’ anthology, is an ethereal interlude that takes us inside the blues party bubble

Review: Cohen’s fire lacks fuel in ‘Borat’ sequel

Friday Kwanele Sosibo - 30 Oct 2020

The film interrogates patriarchy, but the baseness of the US means there’s nothing left to send up

Abracadabra: The magic of Jay Electronica

Friday Kwanele Sosibo - 23 Oct 2020

The elusive rapper’s recent confounding and reluctant releases are rap as liberation theology

Review: The land is not to be outdone in ‘Dust’

Friday Kwanele Sosibo - 17 Sep 2020

Pieter du Plessis’s post-apocalyptic film throws up some interesting questions, but it also needs to work a little harder

Review: On ‘Twice as Tall’, Burna Boy bends Afrobeats to his will

Africa Kwanele Sosibo - 18 Aug 2020

Burna Boy’s fifth studio album, ‘Twice as Tall’, extends beyond the hype to reveal the Afrobeats star’s vulnerability

Review: ‘A New Country’ portrays the lingering aftertaste of a bittersweet freedom

Friday Kwanele Sosibo - 13 Aug 2020

Taking its cues from the dimming of the hope suggested by rainbowism, ‘A New Country’ attempts to articulate the depths of betrayal South Africans feel

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 things Hollywood taught us to think about trans existences

Friday Zaza Hlalethwa - 24 Jun 2020

Disclosure, a Netflix documentary examines the world's transphobic legacy as portrayed in film and television from as early as 1901

Review: Macingwanes’s salutations to the cosmos

Friday Sandile Ngidi - 18 Jun 2020

Pleiades: Isilimela, the latest poetry collection by Vusi Mchunu — who writes under his clan name, Macingwane — is a deeply personal meditation

Review: The documentary ‘Clebs’ is an allegory for the human condition

Friday Sam Broadway - 11 Jun 2020

‘Clebs’, which documents more than 750 dogs at a sanctuary in Morocco, provides some timely symbolism as it points to human truths

Review: Dancing awkwardly around Michael Jordan’s legacy

Friday Kwanele Sosibo - 21 May 2020

The Last Dance, a Netflix documentary series about basketball player Michael Jordan, is a romantic reframing of his halcyon period that fails to engage with the politics of race in America

Review: ‘Planet of the Humans’ is a mess. You should watch it

Friday Jordan G Teicher - 14 May 2020

The new documentary on the future of our planet, executive produced by Michael Moore, fails on a number of fronts. But believers in green growth could still learn from it.

Review: ‘Afterland’ — a novel that foreshadows the Covid-19 pandemic

Article Theresa Mallinson - 23 Apr 2020

For the past five years, Lauren Beukes has been working on a book set in the aftermath of a global epidemic. Its release couldn’t have been more timely

‘Voices from the Underground’: in service for our liberation

Article Nadine Cloete - 21 Apr 2020

These 18 stories from members of MK’s Ashley Kriel detachment teach the meaning of sacrifice

Review: The pandemic could change politics as we know it. Here’s a guidebook

Africa Liesl Louw-Vaudran - 11 Apr 2020

Jakkie Cilliers’s book about igniting a growth revolution in Africa has some timely lessons as we seek ways to mitigate the economic effects of Covid-19

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