From John Coltrane’s centenary to the O2 Arena with Black Coffee, Nduduzo Makhathini’s recent world tour was a masterclass in the cyclical, intergenerational nature of black music
Friends, creatives and a city in mourning gathered to celebrate the woman who helped shape how Johannesburg saw itself after 1994.
Blending jazz, folk and indigenous instrumentation, Zawadi crafts a sound that reconnects audiences to heritage while confronting the politics of the present
The judiciary and legal academy entrenched the same exclusion. They protected the existing order through property law, constitutional abstraction and procedural sanctity. They…
A powerful reflection on how Isitha Sabantu channels Fanon’s radical thought into a deeply political, emotionally resonant theatre of resistance and remembrance
At Howard University, Dr. Sipho Sithole is reshaping global perspectives on Zulu culture — one classroom, conversation, and cultural exchange at a tim
Digital storytelling, particularly via social media, helps indigenous communities preserve and share their knowledge and histories, fostering decolonisation
A timely call to rethink how African history and knowledge can reclaim space in global narratives
The Kenyan writer is dead but his story will live on, the story of the colonialism and the betrayal of postcolonial elites and how to survive
His pen exposed injustice, honoured heritage and helped free the African imagination from colonial constraint
Johannesburg Art Gallery’s decay reveals deeper cracks in South Africa’s cultural and political institutions
Josep Borrel’s depiction of Europe as a garden that must protect itself from jungle invaders reveals deeply entrenched feelings of superiority
Astrid Madimba and Chinny Ukata’s impressive African history book by non-historians
Five years after the first call for universities to decolonise, a new book examines what has changed at the level of the curriculum
bell hooks’s refusal to ‘get in formation’ foregrounded healing as the foundation to a communal liberatory agenda
Afrophobia is an imported anti-African sentiment that internalises colonialism because current state borders never existed in African societies
Mahmood Mamdani’s latest book, ‘Neither Settler nor Native’ asks a political question: Rights for whom?
Teacher training programmes need to cultivate a social consciousness to transform a system that abjects black learners
This comes after the university made headlines for allegedly failing to adhere to its own policies when it comes to employing staff
Though it’s based in fact and measurement, science teaching needn’t only foreground individuals, but can situate itself in a web of knowledge and try to lower barriers to learning
