My rhymes aint got no gender I’m killing both like I’m Caitlin I’m amazin’ I don’t need no validation from crits Don’t need to make your MC list to let me know I can script Don’t need a rapper to swallow To let me know I can spit — Rouge The recent cataclysmic rise of…
When knee deep into Women’s Month we tend to forget to ask ourselves ‘how do I intend on keeping the conversation going?’ This year has seen an especially politically charged Women’s Month in South Africa. This month was prefaced by the action during the President Jacob Zuma’s election briefing at the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC)…
“Ungaphthelwa Innovation Yako” / “Own Your Innovation” In a collaboration between City of Johannesburg, Tshimologong Precinct and Wits University, this year’s Fak’ugesi African Digital Innovation Festival is created for conversations, collaborations and projects for Africans by Africans. It runs from the 19th of August until the 3rd of September. The annual festival is an “African…
Nestled between the edge of Newtown and Fordsburg, the once industrial warehouse now exists as a space of continuous cultural exchange. “You are always absorbed in a mix of cultures and experiences. The location is central, just outside of the CBD it gives you a real everyday engagement with the city and a space for…
Sheetal Magan is part of a new generation of South African filmmakers, immersed in a young context that is already reinventing itself through its own complex honesty and the rejection of a stoic condescension towards emerging voices. These pioneers of the industry are subverting hierarchical and patriarchal monopolies on the imagination, as well as one-dimensional…
“Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents” – Italo Calvino Subtle grey lines form an urban landscape, bending to the contours of buildings. Collective pockets of rectangular forms build silhouettes of the cityscape, steeped in…
Banele Khoza is undoubtedly an emerging South African artist to watch; before he had even left university, the Tate panel in Africa had begun to acquire his work and at the age of 22 he holds multiple accolades, including being selected for Lizamore & Associates’ Johannes Stegmann Mentorship Programme, where he is currently under the…
Fear of The Youth is a new web series about the interests and concerns of Johannesburg youth. The series is produced by filmmaking crew, Germ Heals. In episode 3 Germ Heals catch up with Vuyiswa Ntombela, a young person inspiring other young people and bringing about change in her community through charity work.
‘Nairobi, by weekday dusk, is a mad asylum of matatu (mini-bus) mayhem and stone-faced pedestrians, hurrying to get home. I’m definitely going against the tide of evening traffic’ Tony Mochama, Nairobi A Night Guide When the sun is out, Nairobi streets are an interlocking riddle of cars, buses, motorbikes and pedestrians. New lanes emerge and…
South Africa is constituted through a myriad of textures; it’s a kaleidoscopic interweaving of constantly adaptive and evolving languages and cultures, and communicative gestures within this context often do not lie prostrate to colonial dialects of restrictive definition. Complex physical and metaphysical engagements are constantly operating through forms of language that imposed ontologies could never…
2016 has been the year of FAKA. The creative duo of Desire Marea and Fela Gucci have outdone themselves and broken cultural ground with every drop and every performance this year. On the 21st of April 2016 they gave an exhilarating live performance that set the Stevenson SEX exhibit alight. While a new video for ISIFUNDO…
Inanda is a sprawling township outside Durban, which at different points in its history was the home of both Mathama Ghandi and John Dube, the first president of the ANC. And, as the new short film Inandawood documents, it is now a home for independent filmmaking. A network of amateur directors and actors, centred around…
