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Equipped: A woman looks around in the Michaelis Art Library within the Johannesburg City
Library on 9 August 2025. Photo: OUR CITY NEWS/James Oatway

How funding apartheid fails young library users

Lack of funds prevent provinces from carrying out their mandate to manage public library services

Fak’ugesi 2025 turns South Africa’s digital paradox into a creative power surge, spotlighting African innovators who are rewriting the global tech narrative

Glitching the future at Fak’ugesi Festival

Fak’ugesi 2025 turns South Africa’s digital paradox into a creative power surge, spotlighting African innovators who are rewriting the global tech narrative

Set in 3025, Cape Town Opera’s Aida reinvents itself for a new generation but the voices and the music remain timeless

Aida Reimagined: A galactic opera for the ages

Set in 3025, Cape Town Opera’s Aida reinvents itself for a new generation but the voices and the music remain timeless

Craig Foster on nature’s wisdom and an ancestral connection to the ocean

An edited extract from Craig Foster’s memoir, Amphibious Soul

In the spirit: Afrofuturism group Sun Xa Experiment, which has been around for a decade, has just released an eponymous second album.

Sun Xa Experiment: Merging ancestral rhythms and afrofuturism in Soweto’s music scene

The avant-garde music transcends boundaries, blending healing sounds and community roots

World Vegan Day falls on 1 November, and it celebrates veganism and raises awareness for the benefits of a vegan lifestyle.  (Photo Archive)

The best cookbooks for World Vegan Day

At the root of it, vegan food is just food: Vibrant, flavourful, fresh. Find some inspiration for feel-good food, indulgent meals, and crunchy snacks help you up your daily…

Creations: Art from Cara Saven Wall Design transforms interiors

Afrofuturism meets Wabi-Sabi at Design Joburg

Architects, fashion designers and tastemakers descend on Johannesburg’s premium design event

Emcee Manelis photographed in Wyebank, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, in November 2018. Photo: Rogan Ward

The Portfolio: Manelis

With a theatre background and a long history as a bandleader, Durban-based emcee Manelis is always thinking about how his messaging can be translated visually

Black woman’s ecstasy (Kimberly Marie Ashby)

Black futures in the age of apocalypse

Curating the End of the World deploys Afrofuturism to respond to Covid-19, anti-black violence and capitalism

Akurakuda is a graphic novella that emerges from the world of Mad Horse City, a project by Olalekan Jeyifous and Wale Lawal, and explores Lagos 100 years in the future.

Excerpt: Akurakuda by Olalekan Jeyifous and Wale Lawal

‘Akurakuda’, a graphic novel by Olalekan Jeyifous and Wale Lawal is set in a futuristic Lagos that acknowledges the resilience of dispossessed people

Afrofuturist: ‘Seekers of Light’ (2018) from Simphiwe Ndzube’s solo exhibition ‘Uncharted Lands and Trackless Seas’.

Fictive world is not escapist

Simphiwe Ndzube’s solo show in Cape Town offers no easy answers to deracinated utopias

Intruding on comfort: Mohale Mashigo shows the good, bad and colourful views of the African future in her new book. Photo: Thomas Holder

An iconoclast gets kitted out for new terrain

‘Intruders’ is the effort of an author putting in work for her generation.

‘Glocal’: Thokozani Mhlambi explores the links between the music of diverse cultures such as European classical music and Zulu sounds. Photo: Njabulo Magubane. Stylist: Khetha ‘ELPPAG’ Kweyama

Song cycle unlocks cultural ties

Composer and free-form cultural thinker Thokozani Ndumiso Mhlambi plucks some chords with Alexandra Dodd in advance of his performance in Cape Town

Made in SA: In Jahmil XT Qubeka’s latest film

Xhosa Sci-Fi brings Afrofuturism home

"The resolve to create a believable AI from a South African perspective is convention-shifting."

Africa’s space oddities are transformed into fetishes

A peek into the enigma that is Afrofuturism shows differing views – from patronising to progressive of what it means to be black in the 21st century.