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The Untold Story of Amabhaca
"The last king of the AmaBhaca people was Inkosi Madzikane ka Zulu. He died in the 19th century in what is now Mount Frere, next to the Drakensberg mountain range. The name "amabhaca" means...
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The Mother of all Eating (… and the looting continues!)
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 cor...
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Long Read: Olúwolé’s African Metaphysics
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.
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THE ART OF Series
Mpho Sebina performs a collection of her signature neo afro-soul songs and talks through her creative process and challenges of being a creator during lockdown. Legendary Jazz arti...
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A Night of Alternative Bliss
It’s almost a year into various levels of lockdown and artists’ innovation simply knows no limits! The Joburg-based duo, Centipede, is giving us a taste of an alternative sound, they’ve been crafting throughout lockdown....
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Where Is The Heart of Black Youth In This Leaking Nation?
The world is in a crisis, not because of the perils of a constantly looming nuclear war between the world’s ‘superpowers’ or the global pandemic caused by COVID-19 or the evident c...
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Lost In Translation
Our languages get lost in translation. And because we have been so fixated and obsessed with mastering our colonizer’s tongue, we have completely divorced ourselves from the beauty and philosophical paradigms of our nati...
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