From John Coltrane’s centenary to the O2 Arena with Black Coffee, Nduduzo Makhathini’s recent world tour was a masterclass in the cyclical, intergenerational nature of black music
Friends, creatives and a city in mourning gathered to celebrate the woman who helped shape how Johannesburg saw itself after 1994.
Blending jazz, folk and indigenous instrumentation, Zawadi crafts a sound that reconnects audiences to heritage while confronting the politics of the present
The judiciary and legal academy entrenched the same exclusion. They protected the existing order through property law, constitutional abstraction and procedural sanctity. They…
A powerful reflection on how Isitha Sabantu channels Fanon’s radical thought into a deeply political, emotionally resonant theatre of resistance and remembrance
At Howard University, Dr. Sipho Sithole is reshaping global perspectives on Zulu culture — one classroom, conversation, and cultural exchange at a tim
Digital storytelling, particularly via social media, helps indigenous communities preserve and share their knowledge and histories, fostering decolonisation
A timely call to rethink how African history and knowledge can reclaim space in global narratives
The Kenyan writer is dead but his story will live on, the story of the colonialism and the betrayal of postcolonial elites and how to survive
His pen exposed injustice, honoured heritage and helped free the African imagination from colonial constraint
Johannesburg Art Gallery’s decay reveals deeper cracks in South Africa’s cultural and political institutions
Josep Borrel’s depiction of Europe as a garden that must protect itself from jungle invaders reveals deeply entrenched feelings of superiority
Astrid Madimba and Chinny Ukata’s impressive African history book by non-historians
Five years after the first call for universities to decolonise, a new book examines what has changed at the level of the curriculum
A new exhibition, When Rain Clouds Gather: Black South African Women Artists, 1940-2000, held at the Norval Foundation, is a corrective to the previous systemic exclusion of…
bell hooks’s refusal to ‘get in formation’ foregrounded healing as the foundation to a communal liberatory agenda
Afrophobia is an imported anti-African sentiment that internalises colonialism because current state borders never existed in African societies
Mahmood Mamdani’s latest book, ‘Neither Settler nor Native’ asks a political question: Rights for whom?
Teacher training programmes need to cultivate a social consciousness to transform a system that abjects black learners
The fight for equality is valid but the burning down of our universities is not the revolution or decolonisation any of us should want
