Cecil John Rhodes: British Empire Hitman

These are the ways in which we survive these so-called ‘coffins in motion' that take us home and back. Taxi etiquette is the name we give the do's and don'ts of communal travel, reserved for the poorest members of the republic,” writes Tshepiso Mabula ka Ndongeni.

Excerpt: “We are so desperate to humanise these murderous families such as the British Monarchy that we so hope they are as perfect as they have been packaged and presented to be by popular media,” writes Vuyisile Mshudulu

Coming 2 America is loudly proclaiming that Africa is fake, that our customs are ridiculous and that by going through a process of becoming American we attain progress, identity and peace. It portrays Africa as fictional as Zamunda, as falsely conscious as its King Akeem and as hopelessly in need of saving as its princesses,” writes Tshiamo Malatji

The Market Theatre’s Amazwi Mphahlele Exhibition rekindles Es’kia Mphahlele vintage works amid a wider transformation of South Africa’s cultural return to its indigenous roots, writes Dr Tshepo Mvulane Moloi.

Zakes Mda’s satirical masterpiece set in Maseru, Lesotho (and first performed at the Sechaba Hall of the Victoria Hotel in Maseru in 1992), explores the debilitating culture of corruption and greed known as ‘eating’. A culture which has become synonymous with corrupt state officials who enrich themselves by abusing government funds.

Sophie Olúwolé explains and defends classical Yorùbá philosophy, offers her view on an African metaphysics and resolves the African contribution to humanism, writes Tshiamo Malatji.