Toni Morrison
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Power decides whose voice becomes truth and whose reputation has staying power
When dominant narratives control how communities or individuals are perceived, reputations are reduced to stereotypes, biases emerge, achievements are undervalued and potential…
Zoë Modiga and the politics of love
The singer-songwriter speaks about love, her three albums and how her fledgling career was boosted by jazz legend Hugh Masekela
Explore Joburg art galleries with Thabo the Tourist
Experience Rosebank’s Art Mile with Thabo Jacob Modise, aka Thabo The Tourist
Reading bell hooks: A selection of readings that highlight her intellectual labour
Mapule Mohulatsi selects a few essential titles from her oeuvre, interviews and publications about her
Abdulrazak Gurnah: Nobel prize honours a self-effacing and unassuming talent
Not many knew of the unheralded Zanzibari author who has steadily produced 10 novels
Lewis Nkosi and All the Things We Could Be by Now if We Were Free
The focus of a new book on Lewis Nkosi is his plays rather than his tsotsi-like critiques
Whither the arts in South Africa’s permanent crisis? The flawed logic of singling out Nathi Mthethwa
It is the ANC as a whole that maintains a bureaucratic view of the arts, failing to afford it its proper place in society
Society’s definitions of love don’t work for all of us
Everyone deserves all kinds of love; however, not receiving it does not make me any less worthy of being human, writes Paballo Chauke
Maaza Mengiste: ‘We are now catching up with the past’
As war drums beat again in Ethiopia, author Maaza Mengiste finds new language to memorialise the Second Italo-Ethiopian War
The pencil test still colours the rainbow nation illusion
This latest racist hair fiasco is just one more thing that all the darkies in me are tired of defending and explaining
The Sisterhood: Reviving the evidence of things not seen
The Sisterhood reminds us that Black women are always our own antidote, our own cure. It was a refuge and refusal conceived by women who cared even when they didn’t have to
Reproducing Festac ’77: A secret among a family of millions
An interview with Chimurenga founder Ntone Edjabe about his latest project
The intimacy of Toni Morrison
A new documentary examines the ‘Beloved’ author’s wider political and artistic signficance
Accra: An Outsider’s Brief Perspective
"Maybe we see possibilities in each other’s countries that we don’t see in our own."
The fraternity of lived genius
Author Toni Morrison’s words set high new standards for ethics