Creator
Lindokuhle Nkosi, a writer from South Africa whose work textual work often merges with installation and performance. She has written for Mahala, Chimurenga, Africa Is A Country, City Press, Elephant Magazine, Red Bulletin, and Timeslive, and she has curated exhibitions and projects at galleries and in the public space. While floating across different genres – journalistic, reflective, experimental – her work is consistently insightful, rich in textures, and engaged with realities.
In this poetic commentary on Dathini Mzayiya’s video portrait of Miriam Makeba, Lindokuhle Nkosi inscribes moments of death, spiritual calling, sorrow and exile born by Makeba,…
Semenya’s fight tells us much about how the world sees black women, especially as they compete for gold.
The exhibition ‘Options’ is a search by artist Nolan Oswald Dennis for humanity
A historian is providing a new take on a battle that still rages on today over fact and fiction
Athi-Patra Ruga’s ‘Queens in Exile’is on at Whatiftheworld Gallery in Cape Town on. Writer Lindokuhle Nkosi contributes to Ruga’s monography
Black Love is Radical Empathy. It is decoloniality in praxis. It is critical compassion.
Poet and singer Thandiswa Mazwai talks about intensity, integrity and sitting at the feet of your master
The first day of the third Black Portraitures conference featured a panel titled “ Our Lives as Theory: LGBTQI & African… remixed".
There’s a proud history of women using their bodies as ‘weapons’ of protest that predates #FeesMustFall.
The Lists this week were compiled by M&G contributor Lindokuhle Nkosi
The South African performance artist explores madness, myths and mirrors in her first solo exhibition in the United States.
Meditations on art and healing.
From the fate of establishments like Keleketla! Library and Slaghuis to investing in black arts, Lindokuhle Nkosi zooms in on black creative spaces.
Sisters Noncedo and Nonzuzo Gxekwa explore their life experience as twins in their photo documentary work ‘Carbon Copy’.
Several artists are reminding us that protest music has always been at the heart of the revolution.
The wild cry that rang out after the birth of our democracy still echoes in the spirit of today’s beats.
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