Way Back Home excerpt
South African novelist Niq Mhlongo has been hailed as a spokesperson for the country’s kwaito generation – the so-called born-frees. But in his new book Way Back Home he proves himself as interested in the past as he is the present. Here he grapples with ontology and alternates gritty realism with magic realism; the result […]
Achebe The Native Intellectual
There Was A Country, Chinua Achebe’s autobiographical account of the Nigerian Civil War, raised a dust storm of reaction in Nigeria. Jeremy Weate suggests the books controversy and power lies outside the simple tectonics of ethnicity. There Was A Country, Chinua Achebe’s autobiographical account of the Nigerian Civil War, has raised a […]
Moses’ outro
Does life begin at 40? That’s the time signature Moses Taiwa Molelekwa would have reached on Wednesday, 17th April 2013. In recognition of his greatness we’re presenting some notes in his honour/memory. Moses outro deal an arm lose a shack scrutinise a scar encounter makwerekwere death in du noon or dobsonville outrage a constituency considercracksackanofficialrecitearebuttalaaceptarisk […]
Ten paragraphs of Music Criticism
More Brilliant Than the Sun? Kodwo Eshun discusses ten paragraphs of music criticism. (Off The Page, Whitstable, Kent, 2011) With thanks to PMS.
Bajove Dokotela
Let the good Dr [Philip Tabane] inject you in three ways; music, words, video. Records for Bajove Dokotela mix selected and blended by Ntone Edjabe, quotes from Sello Edwin Galane‘s thesis, The music of Philip Tabane – An historical analytical study of Malombo music of South Africa, and documentary by Dumisani Phakathi and Khalo Matabane. Introducing Tabane’s Malombo Malombo is […]