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Review: ‘Legacy+’ turns Afrobeat full circle

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Following in Fela’s footsteps, Femi and Made Kuti continue the family legacy with their new album
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‘Amandla’ review: Blood, tears and music of the struggle

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‘Amandla’s’ status as a cultural rallying point during apartheid is captured in this Sounds review, republished in Chimurenga’s book ‘Festac 77’
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Review: Sam Msibi’s perilous dance on the frontlines

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Lensman Sam Msibi’s memoir, The Accidental Frontline Journalist, reveals a life irrevocably bound to South Africa’s history
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Review: The eternal splendour of ‘Lovers Rock’

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Steve McQueen’s ‘Lovers Rock’, part of the ‘Small Axe’ anthology, is an ethereal interlude that takes us inside the blues party bubble
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Review: Cohen’s fire lacks fuel in ‘Borat’ sequel

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The film interrogates patriarchy, but the baseness of the US means there’s nothing left to send up
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Abracadabra: The magic of Jay Electronica

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The elusive rapper’s recent confounding and reluctant releases are rap as liberation theology
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Review: The land is not to be outdone in ‘Dust’

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Pieter du Plessis’s post-apocalyptic film throws up some interesting questions, but it also needs to work a little harder
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Review: On ‘Twice as Tall’, Burna Boy bends Afrobeats to his will

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Burna Boy’s fifth studio album, ‘Twice as Tall’, extends beyond the hype to reveal the Afrobeats star’s vulnerability
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Review: ‘A New Country’ portrays the lingering aftertaste of a bittersweet freedom

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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
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Review: Biodun Olumuyiwa’s ‘In a Journey of Dreams’ is both timely and timeless

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Biodun Olumuyiwa has been writing since the late 1980s, but has only recently published his debut poetry collection
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The things Hollywood taught us to think about trans existences

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Disclosure, a Netflix documentary examines the world's transphobic legacy as portrayed in film and television from as early as 1901
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Review: Macingwanes’s salutations to the cosmos

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Pleiades: Isilimela, the latest poetry collection by Vusi Mchunu — who writes under his clan name, Macingwane — is a deeply personal meditation
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Review: The documentary ‘Clebs’ is an allegory for the human condition

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‘Clebs’, which documents more than 750 dogs at a sanctuary in Morocco, provides some timely symbolism as it points to human truths
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Review: Dancing awkwardly around Michael Jordan’s legacy

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

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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.
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