Mourning
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‘Lilahloane’: Death rites live beyond the grave
A new video installation by Imameleng Masitha at the AVA gallery digs into our rituals to mark mortality and the longing for home soil amid moving and migration
Kenyan ‘end-of-life’ services tech startup is digitising mourning
From memorials to digital death notices, Safiri Salama is changing how we say goodbye, giving the funeral industry a tech upgrade
Lockdown level three brings waves of despair
Like all of us, Derek Davey is trying to put on a brave face as we live through a once-in-a-life-time disaster
You lose some, you love some
‘So even as the pain constricts our being, the world prises us open, forcing us to feel the sunshine that is other people’