The loss of “new” South African innocence
Moses Molelekwa, the brilliant South African pianist, composer and producer died by suicide on 13 February 2001. Florence Mtoba, his wife (also his manager) was found with him; she had been strangled.
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When Kim Kardashian ‘419ed the 419ers’
The Lagos elite blows money at puffery, while most of Nigeria suffers. It’s the same as it ever was.
Weekend Music Break N°32
Friday/Weekend Bonus Music Breaks got side-tracked a bit lately because of the Afcon fever. Good times were had by all. Let’s pick up the thread though. Here are 10 music videos you might have missed over the past weeks. Burkina-American Ismael Sankara (remember Mikko’s write-up about Ismael’s surname and possible affiliations) released a new video: […]
Cape Town goes Electronic
This weekend marks the 2nd year of the Cape Town Electronic Music Festival, an event that seeks to present the “multi facets of South Africa’s electronic music scene” with a weekend of performances and workshops. Judging from the promo video (below), the festival seems to be punting diversity and breaking down racial barriers under the […]
Why is South Africa such a violent society
The heinous, brutal rape and subsequent slaughtering of Anene Booysen in South Africa’s Western Cape province has brought into the open, once again, the miry underbelly of our rainbow nation. At the heart of violence that Anene was subjected to, lies a bigger issue that South Africans wilfully shunt and ignore. This issue is our […]
How to deal with sexual violence in South Africa
It is not good enough to teach our sons not to rape. We need to teach our sons that a woman is not some “thing” placed on this planet just to satisfy whatever desire you have.
I want to play at the Voortrekker Monument
Here's what some South African artists make of the country's politics.
Africa is a Board Game
Players in the board game, "Ticket to Ride: The Heart of Africa," are cast in the role of colonists, competing to make the largest imprint on Africa's "vast wilderness."
Sinophobia
Lesotho's media and the "problem" of Chinese immigrant shop owners.
Capitalizing On a Violent Heritage
The politics of selling African art mostly collected during colonial era to private collectors.
When videos of abuses by police go viral in Angola
It marks the first time that videos went truly viral in a country in which only about 5% of the population has access to the internet.
The spirit of Ethiopian culture
Roxsanne Dyssell's second in a series of interviews with young artists and creatives: Next: creative director and photoblogger,Metasebia Yoseph