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Cow Mash’s Boleta le Bofefo, 2019-2020. (Polyester resin, faux leather, various synthetic fibres, found object, 97 x 135 x 315 cm)
A BLACK AESTHETIC A VIEW OF SOUTH AFRICAN ARTISTS 1970 1990

Black Luminosity foregrounded visibility as an act of refusal

The group exhibition at SMAC gallery, curated by Gcotyelwa Mashiqa, revisited the chromatic and social properties of blackness in contemporary South African visual art

  • Athi Mongezeleli Joja
9 min read
Black woman’s ecstasy (Kimberly Marie Ashby)
AFROFUTURISM

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

  • Nkgopoleng Moloi
8 min read
Month End, acrylic on paper, 2019 by Levy Pooe.
ART

The Portfolio: Levy Pooe

Artist Levy Pooe conceptualises his work as ‘a social diary of being black in the city’

  • Levy Pooe
2 min read
Pan Africanist Congress founder Robert Sobukwe. Without ideology and theory it would be impossible to interpret the past, anticipate the future and understand the present.
BLACKNESS
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Who is an Africanist, really?

Pan-Africanism is an ever-evolving ideology, without a set rubric, and is dependent on one’s interpretation

  • Mcebo Dlamini
4 min read