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African Studies Scholar & Visual Storyteller
Chaze Matakala writes of encountering Thania Petersen and Ibrahim Mahama at the Investec Cape Town Art Fair.
The Investec Cape Town Art Fair (ICTAF), may offer a new visual languages that looks to disentangle what we know as contemporary art in Africa.
"Africa’s emerging literary voices are full of pluralities, reflecting what this generation performs and undertakes."
Bonded by history as much as the present, the two genres of expression work together effortlessly
A traveller returns home to warm familiarities seen through the eyes of universality
"To deny the contributions of black bodies to what is currently Brazil would be like denying the majority of your family".
Brazil might have all the trappings of a new place, but the spectre of slavery makes it feel familiar
If beauty is a joy forever, so it is with the photos jumping out of whitewashed gallery walls
