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In transition: Manyaku Mashilo’s Here I Saw My Ancestors First. Photos: Lea Crafford

Where ancestors walk

Manyaku Mashilo transforms memory and ancestry into expansive, layered canvases where spiritual landscapes, historical archives and women’s journeys converge

  • Eyaaz
7 min read
Setting the scene: Dancers, choreographed by Luyanda Sidiya, in Dancing the Death Drill. Photos: Joburg Theatre

Dancing the Death Drill: A Resurrection of forgotten spirits

Dancing the Death Drill is more than theatre — it is a resurrection, a requiem and a haunting reminder of forgotten African history

  • Eyaaz
5 min read
In black and white: The Nkosi family circa 1942, in a photo taken on the steps of a church in Ferreirasdorp, Johannesburg. Morley Nkosi, author of the memoir The Way Home, is seated in the middle.

Exile in Cairo: Between the Nile and the struggle

Morley Nkosi recalls exile in Cairo, where cramped rooms, African solidarity and global politics shaped the uncertain journey to freedom

8 min read

Writing against the grain: Adekeye Adebajo’s Africa

Informed, provocative, and hopeful — Adebajo’s work resists reduction, embracing Africa’s plurality and persistent spirit

  • Eyaaz
4 min read
Wave goodbye: Cameroonian-Swiss curator Koyo Kouoh, who died of cancer on 10 May, was executive director and chief curator of the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town.

A love supreme: A requiem for Koyo Kouoh

Bongani Madondo remembers Koyo Kouoh as an activist and a community worker — and curator of collective futures

  • Eyaaz
15 min read
Adekeye Adebajo’s book is an analysis of Africa, from the perspective of 30 years of study, which offers an overview of the decades since the fall of apartheid in 1994

A panoramic view of a continent

My latest book is an analysis of Africa, from the perspective of 30 years of study, which offers an overview of the decades since the fall of apartheid in 1994

  • Eyaaz
8 min read
Ernest Cole Lost And Found By Raoul Peck (c) Ernest Cole

Ernest Cole: Lost and Found — A profound portrait of the artist in exile

Ernest Cole’s untold story comes home — with a revealing documentary premiering at the Joburg Film Festival this week

  • Kibo Ngowi
9 min read
Thandiswa Mazwai. Photos by Nick Boulton and Charles Leonard

Thandiswa Mazwai on Sankofa and political currents in South Africa

Experience the soul-stirring melodies of Thandiswa Mazwai’s new album ‘Sankofa’, a captivating journey through South African music and culture

  • Des Erasmus
14 min read