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Soul food: Out of necessity Gabi Motuba sings, she swings black life and her conduction is continuously marshalling an imminent feeling of self-sovereignty. Photo: Standard Bank
ABBEY LINCOLN

Gabi Motuba and the sound of sacred resistance

Gabi Motuba’s music stretches beyond jazz, transforming grief, memory and resistance into a spiritual sonic language rooted in black life and liberation

  • Thabang Monoa
7 min read
Thato Toeba: Collage of Justice
AFRICAN ARTISTS TO WATCH

Mapping power, memory and belonging through collage

Collages crafted by 2025 FNB Art Prize winner Thato Toeba confront colonial legacies and celebrate African intimacy and connection

  • Lesego Chepape
7 min read
Omar Badsha And Dumile Feni At The Durban Art Gallery
ANTI APARTHEID MOVEMENT

Apartheid’s shadow, an artist’s light: Omar Badsha’s story

Omar Badsha’s journey from quiet observer to defiant artist in apartheid South Africa

  • Daniel Magaziner
8 min read