“Three generations of white South African men were bound together at that table. Vermuelen was the first generation. He defined Africa, made it safe for Basson to defile. I was the last generation, the last to grow up in segregated neighborhoods. Between us was the silent photograph of Wouter Basson. Like a distant father, Basson was absent at the dining table.” – Henk Rossouw (Hole in the White ‘Hood). Also Mahmood Mamdani on Bantu Education at UCT, Gael Reagon on sisterhood, Binyavanga Wainaina on dis-covering Kenya, Gaston Zossou on African intellectuals and more…
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Strange Fruit by Lewis Allen
Chronicles of the Road: Five Nations Five Artists by Barnabas Ticha Muvhuti (Arak Collection, 2024)
Barnabas Ticha Muvuthi was the first recipient of the ARAK Collection Art Writing Residency Fellowship, May-November 2023. He researched five artists from five different SADC countries: Rudolf Seibeb (Namibia), Nelly Guambe (Mozambique), Thebe Phetogo (Botswana), Victor Mutale Kalinosi Chishimba (Zambia) and Lutanda Zemba Luzamba (Democratic Republic of Congo).
Barnabas Ticha Muvuthi is Deputy Vice Chancellor of Open Window University for the Creative Arts in Lusaka, Zambia, and is the resident art critic at The Post Newspapers. He was awarded the 2012 CNN African Journalist of the Year for Art and Culture and a Media Institute of Southern Africa award in 2015 for his work in arts journalism