Some people don’t even need to kill a mosquito to keep you at the bottom: dispossessed, landless and destitute. And while many view monarchs as weak and largely symbolic entities, the British monarchy ranks among the wealthiest corporations in the world.

Crammed with the best of local, African and international live music, a cosmopolitan carnival of street food and fine dining, the launch of the exclusive DStv Delicious Festival: Our Story & Recipes cookbook, and the Chefs with Compassion partnership that enables festival-goers to lend a helping hand to those less fortunate, this year’s festival is shaping up to be unforgettable.

Trev’s music collection was just for pleasure and playing for friends. With his pocket money, collecting music will be his devotion. This started while he was in Giyani and he will collect music that he termed to be “rare stuff.”

There are many reasons for this. For one, the logic of patriarchy tells us it is unimaginable that black women are also able to do what men can do, let alone perform better than men. It is because of this neurosis that hypervisibility kicks in.

For over two decades the Democratic Republic of Congo has seemingly been deemed ruined. Ravaged and torn by what appears to be perennial war and disease to its populace, it has become a land that anyone who sees no means of profiteering fears or flees.

The Basha Uhuru Freedom Festival Creative Week is an all-encompassing creative showcase, an opportunity for creatives and aspiring creatives to come together, be inspired, showcase their talents and feed their creativity.

I had a mysterious dream after a tiring day at my studio painting my dreams. The dream was a blur although I recall some of its images. An unknown spirit appeared to me in the form of a water snake traveling towards a land inhabited by lost souls in a world that is now Babylon.

If we must die, let it not be like hogs / Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, / While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs,