Untangling Lights is hFACTOR’s community outreach programme and the heart and soul of how we operate. It was created primarily to identify the needs of the Lagos Island community and respond by using a social enterprise model to foster business models that use creative approaches to solving problems and generating revenues. It is named eponymously to…
Flare frames a face, a neck. A clouded sky becomes a solid area of both possibility and pain. A voice of longing. Intimacy. A cinematic dream. “Love and Leave” is a music video created by an all-womxn team of creatives. I had the opportunity to speak to director Amy-Leigh Braaf and songstress Hee Young about…
Johannesburg-born, Cape Town-based rapper and producer Laudable is back with a brand new tape featuring 8 tracks entitled ‘The Great Sensitivity’. Having got his start releasing music at 15 as Parenthemis, a made-up name, 2015 would see the birth of Laudable and the release of his first mixtape, ‘Survivor’s Guilt’, under that moniker. “I played…
Treasure will always ignite the inner-longing of unfulfilled desires. This makes the quest for treasure all so important, creating a drive within one’s heart that’s capable of doing anything and everything to get that glory. But when glory means sharing love from the perspective of a black femme which does not comprise an exclusivity but…
Discourse surrounding the figure of the witch and what this figure means to modern society has become increasingly prevalent. It’s not hard to see why as the symbol of the witch has far deeper roots than the evil, twisted figures we were presented as children. It seems that this stereotype was purposefully created in an…
When I first clicked play on Nalu Luvdust’s debut mixtape ‘Tacenda’ I thought I was in for a cute release about love. Then she absolutely floored me with “You know when you’re with somebody who makes you feel the whole damn universe? Well I don’t. It seems like a joke.” Right there on the opening track….
The vibrancy that echoes through the spacey yet thumping selections that stretch the sonic palate of the mind. These grooves find South Africa being as electronic as possible with dimensions that escape to neon lit nightlife, tropical serenity or just your own comfort zone that allows you to indulge and dig deeper with no obligation….
There’s no other genre like the infamous amapiano which basically means pianos. The genre’s name is loosely descriptive of its framework around its intuitive chord progressions and sounding of piano keys. This genre has gone from inane social media feuds to a compendium of memes to making the biggest songs South Africa has ever heard….
When one thinks of record labels, it’s no mistake to picture a corporation that runs artists and does everything in their power to ensure artists produce hit records that are timeless. That has changed over the years and in this millennium it keeps changing, especially with the advent of the internet. 76666 describe themselves as…
Initiating her rap stance as Leigh.L her step into the rap game started way back when she was very young. Words and sounds intrigued her from an early age as her mom would add ambience by playing old school hip hop in their home. Her intense interest in hip hop exploded and its debris found…
Now when you take the name Dada, an avant-garde movement from the early 20th century, and combine it with the word Shiva, the Hindu god of destruction, you are sure to be taken to dangerous extremes. Rapper Dada Shiva promises this with the experimentation of electronic sounds coupled with flows voiced through multiple personalities enhancing…
For better or worse, our parents shape who we become. Whether we try to live up to the high standards they’ve set before us or swear to be nothing like them, who we are is so intrinsically tied to who they were, and their actions have a lasting impact on us long after they’re gone….
