When dominant narratives control how communities or individuals are perceived, reputations are reduced to stereotypes, biases emerge, achievements are undervalued and potential…
The singer-songwriter speaks about love, her three albums and how her fledgling career was boosted by jazz legend Hugh Masekela
Experience Rosebank’s Art Mile with Thabo Jacob Modise, aka Thabo The Tourist
Mapule Mohulatsi selects a few essential titles from her oeuvre, interviews and publications about her
Not many knew of the unheralded Zanzibari author who has steadily produced 10 novels
The focus of a new book on Lewis Nkosi is his plays rather than his tsotsi-like critiques
As war drums beat again in Ethiopia, author Maaza Mengiste finds new language to memorialise the Second Italo-Ethiopian War
This latest racist hair fiasco is just one more thing that all the darkies in me are tired of defending and explaining
The Sisterhood reminds us that Black women are always our own antidote, our own cure. It was a refuge and refusal conceived by women who cared even when they didn’t have to
An interview with Chimurenga founder Ntone Edjabe about his latest project
A new documentary examines the ‘Beloved’ author’s wider political and artistic signficance
"Maybe we see possibilities in each other’s countries that we don’t see in our own."
Author Toni Morrison’s words set high new standards for ethics
Toni Morrison exists beyond the confines of literature, offering her works as part of a canon that should exist as a blueprint for a free existence.
"Her literary contributions relentlessly acknowledged, humanised and canonised the many variations of black femmehood"
Women, celebrate achievements besides those of marrying and having babies
The debate on race can only be meaningful if we listen and consider that we might be wrong
When Hugh Masekela blew his trumpet, you felt as if you were watching a human being in full flight
The voice of America’s racial conscience has some words regarding Barack Obama’s tenure
With her intricate writing of physical suffering and supernatural torment, Toni Morrison vividly paints the pain of slavery
