With over seventy distinct ethnic groups, rich with their own practises, spiritual beliefs, diets, dress, and symbology, Ghana – like many other African countries – is an incredibly diverse and dynamic country bursting with colourful cultures and people from various backgrounds. So with that in mind why do people – Ghanaians included – only recognise one…
* WARNING: Contains spoilers When Issa Rae developed the story of her web series, Awkward Black Girl, leading to the production and the debut of her TV show Insecure in 2016, I doubt anyone could have predicted the profound impact it would have. After a 5 year running time, the hit HBO series was able…
It’s not difficult to tie the ethos and the stories individual brands speak to when developing their identities, nor is it difficult to gather the similarities of these local stories as we move between the brands and the cultures linked to them. It seems there is a lot more power in consciously interacting with one…
People ask me all the time, what kind of stories do you want to tell, Viola? And I say, exhume those bodies. Exhume those stories. The stories of the people who dreamed big and never saw those dreams to fruition. People who fell in love and lost. I became an artist—and thank God I did—because…
* Trigger Warning: this article contains discussions of rape and sexual assault There is a harrowing wail ebbing from the pit of my stomach and I do not know how to silence it. There is a crippling terror that has a hold of my body and I do not know how to settle it. There…
“Everyone is becoming a gamer, even if they don’t self-describe as gamers. There is now less of a stigma to playing games, and it’s no longer seen as a ‘guilty pleasure.” Casey Chafkin, cofounder of Skillz. “Gaming is no longer relegated to the basement. I’d like to say that it’s had it’s coming out of…
This past weekend I was once again reminded by the streets, or more accurately — the spaces of Twitter — of how cultural conformity is at an all time high amongst youth digital culture and what DAZED Magazine describes as “the era of the monomass”. I’ve never been one to be pessimistic about our society,…
In less than a month, Miss SA, as an organisation at large, has once again shown us why it and pageants of a similar nature are not to be trusted, nor accommodated in 2021. Since Lalela Mswane‘s crowning as Miss SA 2021, the organisation has exhumed decades worth of its own racist, segregationist history. In…
Since its release late last month, director Denis Villeneuve’s latest epic — Dune — has been breaking box office records. Based on the book series by author Frank Herbert, the film follows a story based in the far future as main character Paul Atreides — played by Timotheé Chalamet— and his family are placed on…
The deaths of numerous people in a mass casualty incident at Travis Scott ‘s Astroworld music festival in Houston was heartbreaking. For decades, crowd stampedes at ill-planned concerts have turned what could have been a fun night out into terrible disasters. What typically happens with disasters like this is that too many tickets are sold,…
*TW: article contains mentions of death and mass tragedy* Travis Scott’s two day festival – Astroworld – ended prematurely on its first night after hundreds of people suffered injuries, cardiac arrests, and even losses of consciousness, due to the shear amount of people that were in the crowd. As a result of the moshing, pushing…
Love is – and always has been – in the air in South African popular culture, as well as on the big screen. Romance is a strange phenomenon: the attraction between two people might be the most simple thing in the world, yet it can also rapidly become difficult. As a species, we’ve repeatedly stepped…
