Mail & Guardian
Mail & Guardian

Postcolonialism

latest news & developments
Heritage: Nduduzo Makhathini, the South African pianist, composer and educator, brings his Zulu culture to bear on his new album uNomkhubulwane. Photo: Arthur Dlamini
ABDULLAH IBRAHIM

A close listen: Jazz pro, healer and scholar stuns with depth of meaning and musicality

South African pianist and composer Nduduzo Makhathini’s latest album, uNomkhubulwane, is a masterpiece of transcendent spiritual jazz that draws on his Zulu cultural heritage and…

  • Diane Thram
5 min read
Scathing critique: Academic and author Mahmood Mamdani’s new book, Neither Settler nor Native, is a haunting meditation on the deadly political rituals and fires of the ‘politicisation’ of cultural and ethnic identity. (Photo: Chloe Aftel)
ACADEMIA

Review: Mahmood Mamdani on the ‘non-national’ state

Mahmood Mamdani’s latest book, ‘Neither Settler nor Native’ asks a political question: Rights for whom?

  • Sandile Ngidi
7 min read
Donald Goines
419 SCAMS

Hustler literature sheds light on internet fraud and its role in the Nigerian economy

E-fraud novels, such as ‘I Do Not Come To You By Chance’, depict characters recreating the same exploitative economic landscape they seek to avoid

  • Daniel Chukwuemeka
5 min read
In Tamale, older Hindi films spanning the postcolonial period are still viewed by residents in their homes and in neighbourhood video centres.
ALBELA

Why Indian films are so popular in Ghana — and have been for decades

The history of Indian visual media in Ghana extends all the way to the mid 1950s

  • Katie Young
5 min read