Bongani Madondo

Bongani Madondo remembers Koyo Kouoh as an activist and a community worker — and curator of collective futures

Nettrice Gaskins’ image of writer, musician and producer Greg Tate graced the March 12 edition of the Mail & Guardian’s Friday section. It is a memorable, futuristic rendering of…

The untimely passing of Kuli Roberts, gossip columnist du jour of post-apartheid’s Gilded Age, shocked the nation. Bongani Madondo, who first encountered her earlier in her…

Pioneer actor and activist Sidney Poitier, who died at age 94, alchemised the Black condition into a dignified on-screen presence in the 20th century. Bongani Madondo wrestles…

When news of the passing of one of SA’s most iconic musicians broke, Bongani Madondo revisited his songbook and located him in the global pantheon of the greatest vocalists, ever

Bongani Madondo says the meltdown amid racial witch-hunting portends the beginning of the end of white liberalism itself

Michael Jackson’s fans worshipped him even after his death — until Leaving Neverland. Bongani Madondo writes about dealing with a fallen god

Bongani Madondo on the transitional path of Winnie Mandela from a Princess YamaNgutyana emaMpondweni into ‘Winnie The Great’

A feast to paint Winnie Madikizela-Mandela as a black nationalist loony and a woman of loose morals kicked into gear even before her body was cold

The ‘man boy of all ages’ was one of the very best that South Africa – and the world – had to offer

Amid the fratricidal political mayhem threatening to rip the soul of the country asunder, a music festival proposes that local is the national

Leonard Cohen’s songs evoked the mystical incantations of Bongani Madondo’s youth, but also voodooed music and poetry into a profound creative ritual.

‘If you believe Mutwa is given to buck-wild conspiracies I have an antibiotic fer ya in four words: Dr Ivan van Sertima.’

Bongani Madondo takes a trip across the Kalahari to meet the man and peek into his futuristic past.

Bongani Madondo on the fictional Naafians’s dark nights – in the shadow of a sacred mountain in the southwestern district of the Z’aniaa Republic.

Writer Bongani Madondo relates how books have eased the psychic pain of his class-conscious family.

Okwui Enwezor: More about the man behind the ‘Rise and Fall of Apartheid: Photography and the Bureaucracy of Everyday Life’

Bongani Madondo searches for elegance in a vast exhibition of photographic material documenting life in apartheid South Africa.

Bongani Madondo puts on his voyeuristic shades to see how 2013 went tabloid.

A century after the founding of the Church of God and Saints of Christ Bongani Madondo treks to ‘New Jerusalem’ to make sense of its revered prophet.