brinjals
By Cullen Goldblatt A half teaspoonful of cream of tartar to stop bleeding almost immediately. So precisely and English wifely it begins. Cullen tries to follow a line between a 19th century Cape kitchen (the scrubby veld a tincture jar of cream of tartar) and the dry pale Baobab fruit growing in another Africa and […]
Neo Muyanga – The Sex For Money No Power Mixtape
PASS founder, a composer and musician Neo Muyanga highlights the currents and transactions between the physical and the metaphysical, the lustful and the learned, the sensual and confessional and all matters philosophical, sociological and political in this powerplay. “Obia Ba Nnye/Naughty Child” – Desmond Ababio “Mentirosa” – Concha Buika “Le Buste” – Jean Cocteau/Dj […]
Traditional Intellectuals
by Koketso Potsane Art has always been used to make statements about what is happening. In his article “Reciprocal Bases of National Culture and the Fight for Freedom,” Frantz Fanon argues that extreme ways of colonial domination always disrupts [in spectacular fashion] the cultural life of a conquered people. This is made possible by the laws/rules […]
Festac ’77
by Akin Adesokan Imagine, first, a priestess of Esu (Elegbara), the West African god of the crossroads and inspiration for the less tangible practice of hermeneutics. The woman, in her late sixties when the story begins, in August 1976, in a small village three hours by car north of Lagos, is also the mother of […]
The Tyelera Moment
by Thabo Jijana On December 13, 2016, in Salem Party Club v Salem Community, the Supreme Court of Appeal ruled in favour of 152 land claimants representing a community of amaXhosa who’d been dispossessed over a century ago by the 1820 British settlers and their descendants. While the court victory has been rightfully celebrated as […]