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Late former president Nelson Mandela. (Photo by Gideon Mendel/Corbis via Getty Images)
ANC

Mandela as ‘underdog’ and a fresh look at the liberation struggle

In Spear: Mandela and other Revolutionaries, Madiba is cast as an underdog and the rise of Umkhonto weSizwe is explored by reframing the archives. In Ghosts of Archives we…

  • Rithuli Orleyn
11 min read
Mme MaMotaung at Chicken farm informal settlement in 1985. (Santu Mofokeng Foundation)
AN AESTHETIC OF BLACKNESS STRANGE AND OPPOSITIONAL
Video

An ‘aesthetic inheritance’: ugogo the [visual] griot

Refiguring ugogo as a critical figure in the making of Black [visual] archives

  • Kholeka Shange
9 min read
Transdisciplinary: Professor Bhekizizwe Peterson enjoyed challenging young people’s views. (Photo: Nom’Ay Matola)
AFRICAN ARTS

Bheki Peterson: Pursuing radical epistemological thought with an understated erudition

The soft-spoken scholar had a towering impact on scholarship, artistic work, teaching practice and activism

  • Sanele kaNtshingana
7 min read
‘Ukuzilanda’: The late Professor Bhekizizwe Peterson, seen at a Narrative Enquiry for Social Transformation (Nest) conference, noted that in South Africa English has been used as a language of power. Photo: courtesy Prof Jill Bradbury
BHEKIZIZWE PETERSON
Video

‘Speaking like falling’: Centring ukhoko’s tongue

Through her praxis, Kholeka Shange interrogates the marginalisation of African languages in the academy

  • Kholeka Shange
7 min read
Politics on the street: (from left) A group of women partying at Hurricanes in Katlehong. (Muntu Vilakazi)
ACHILLE MBEMBE

(R)evolution in 4/4: The contribution of South Africa’s urban music to new meanings of freedom

Kwaito and house music have broadened the scope of struggle and stretched the definition of freedom

  • Njabulo Zwane
7 min read
BHEKIZIZWE PETERSON

What filmmakers can learn from Steve

Artists are not only reporters, but also interpreters and social actors, writes Bhekizizwe Peterson.

  • Bhekizizwe Peterson
4 min read