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Excavating intricate resonance with Samuel Reinhard’s ‘Interior’ | a Präsens Editionen release

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/ Discourse / 3 days ago

Why does it cost so much to be a beautiful Black girl?

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The herstory before and around Siv Ngesi’s ‘Sivanna’

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We are stealing our art back

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The anti-celebrity era

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In process and subjectivity // Katharien de Villier’s “sound-blindness” exhibition

Nkgopoleng Moloi

/ Discourse / 5 days ago

Native Life in the Third Millennium // a conversation with Masande Ntshanga

/ music / 6 days ago

‘Somewhere Between Beauty and Magic’ is Joeboy’s crowning as an African pop star

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And the mic stays on: the seemingly unsinkable Gareth Cliff

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Blades of Steel | A Rad Safari album connecting LA, SA & Brazil

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The Nation that Janet Jackson built and racialised sexism’s destruction

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Child of Venus: Born from Heaven and Sea

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At Home, Dressed in my Finest, What are you Wearing?

Can’t wait till Friday

The suspension of culture in the colonial present 2.0

Sondela, My children

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Somewhere only we know

I was reading my horoscope instead of falling for you

EARTH WILL RESET

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Lindiwe Mngxitama / Pop Archive

The Nation that Janet Jackson built and racialised sexism’s destruction

As much breath, depth and comfort I tend to find in the spaces of (re)memory and remembering, they are also thickly populated with disappointment and leaking holes and cracks that seem to filter out—more often than not—the work and presence of Black femmes where H/history and artistic cultural production is concerned. We often hear people...

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...

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Christopher McMichael / Pop Archive

‘Sing Backwards and Weep’, A brutally honest memoir of dysfunction and addiction

American singer Mark Lanegan’s haunted baritone is a force of nature. His deep, gloomy voice sings of the darkest nights of the soul, the deepest heart-breaks and emotional bruises, broken dreams, desperate addiction and longing, failure, desolation and death. From his work with Screaming Trees and Queens of the Stone Age, right through to his...

Lindiwe Mngxitama and Kneo Mokgopa / Discourse

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...

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