Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989)
Photographs by Rotimi Fani-Kayode. These photos first appeared in print in Chimurenga Vol. 4: Black Gays & Mugabes (May ’03)
We Used To Dance
Sandile Dikeni reviews We Used To Dance, an album from Andile Yenana. Listen. Digger Jazz, is my brother. Literally and figuratively. I really met him one crispy Sunday morning in the Karoo. I was about ten. It was a beautiful winter morning. I know it was morning because, although the sun was shining, one could observe […]
Relaxing
Okello Sam, a dance and theatre artist (amongst other things), examines the conceptual difference between work and relaxation as differently applied in the so-called First and Third Worlds. For more on Okello Sam, visit Hope North.
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 […]
Notes Towards A Question of Power
Pieces, notes really, fragmentary speculations,remnants, a sense of the feminine under assault, and the drive to love…. Along with her novel A Question of Power, Bessie Head‘s letters and correspondences pose the toughest, most vital questions concerning race, class and gender, the troubled paths of the poetic imagination, and on the tangled, fraught (and yes, […]