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The Master Narrative of Coloniality and Stories That Disrupt

Yhuri Cruz: Scenes from a Black Diaspora

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/ Discourse / 2 weeks ago

The Master Narrative of Coloniality and Stories That Disrupt

by Jamal Nxedlana

/ Art / 1 month ago

Yhuri Cruz: Scenes from a Black Diaspora

by BubblegumClub

/ Art / 1 month ago

Rest as Resistance: Vanessa Sindihebura on Reclaiming Memory

by Jamal Nxedlana

/ Art / 2 months ago

Rhoda Davids Abel: Weaving Dreams, Memory, and Myth

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/ Art / 2 months ago

Camille Farrah Buhler: Material, Form, and Disruption

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/ music / 3 months ago

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by Nabeela Karim

/ Art / 3 months ago

Political (re)imagination with Nolan Oswald Dennis Understudies

by Jamal Nxedlana

/ Art / 3 months ago

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SA POP ARCHIVE

Thembeka Sincuba / Pop Archive

Feel Good SA Pop Culture Moments That Live In My Mind Rent-Free

Now, I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t give a damn about sports. I didn’t watch the match this past weekend and in fact, I did my utmost to avoid it, even going as far as skipping the Vogue Nights event I had been so looking forward to once I heard they’d be...

Casey Delport / Pop Archive

iJusi // ‘rainbow nation’ media cultures

A glance at the contemporary media landscape in South Africa conjures up images of newsstands littered with political scandal, criminally bad tabloid journalism and bland design after bland design. It’s no wonder that mainstream media can often leave a sour taste in consumers’ mouths as it’s all too apparent that these publications, both online and...

Lindiwe Mngxitama / Pop Archive

Bubblegum disco era icon Condry Ziqubu’s ‘Gorilla Man’ | an Afrosynth release

While Condry Ziqubu’s rise as a star of South Africa’s ‘bubblegum’ disco era may have appeared rapid, before his big break as a solo artist in 1983, Ziqubu had already been working professionally in the music industry for 15 years. A regular on the local soul scene since the late 1960s in groups such as...

Lindiwe Mngxitama and Kneo Mokgopa / Pop Archive

Middle Centre: on V Mash, radical Black aesthetic production and those honoured only in death

The text that is to follow is an exercise of sorts between writer Kneo Mokgopa and myself. An attempt at writing together from afar and from places of familiar difference, of Vinolia Mashego, who was affectionally known as V Mash to us and the rest of the nation. To write of her in remembrance and...