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Debt
A reading of Thuthuka Zondi's photograph. I am interested in how (Black) debt constitutes a perpetual dying, a falling.
Vusumzi Nkomo
Mar 29, 20237 min read
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For Paulo,
1. We begin this enquiry with BESTIARY OF CAPITAL - HORSE. A banknote, a branch, a horse. 2. Paulo had no biz pairing banknotes with...
iliso_ ekapa
Feb 28, 20223 min read
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Zenani’s (un)worlding praxis: whose wor(l)d is it, anyways?
for Maleta “. . .a thing that turned out to be fire, a forest, a cliff, that suddenly appeared behind me” --- Nongenile Masithathu...
iliso_ ekapa
Nov 10, 20215 min read
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Collusions: Conversations with architecture
GSA Unit 19 tutors Tuliza Sindi & Muhammad Dawjee AS A REFLECTION ON THE FIRST YEAR OF ITS RUNNING IN 2020, Unit 19 of the Graduate...
iliso_ ekapa
May 28, 202118 min read
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Requiem for Ngqawana
Qhama Zondani Those who have lived long enough will know that the mention or thought of New Brighton almost always comes accompanied by a...
iliso_ ekapa
Oct 1, 20204 min read
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Winnie Mandela Bewitching History and the Nation
Sinethemba Sankara Bizela The 2nd of April 2018 marks the day of Winnie Mandela’s physical departure, two years ago. There are so many...
iliso_ ekapa
Oct 1, 20204 min read
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iimini: a fidelity to unity
Vusumzi Nkomo In love, or quite frankly, romantic love, one is offered an opportunity to experience another, to experience love and life...
iliso_ ekapa
Jul 3, 20203 min read
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Dance softly and carry a big voice: understanding Joseph Shabalala
by David Coplan When Joseph Bekhizizwe Shabalala passed away I stopped in my tracks and just let the sadness pull me down. And then ...
iliso_ ekapa
Mar 4, 20204 min read
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Art and Politics: The Governing Politics of the Music Industry
by Ncedisa Mpemnyama One of the most exasperating issues that makes my blood boil is the blaming of artists for issues that are...
iliso_ ekapa
Feb 19, 20204 min read
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The effect of traditional African music on liberation songs
By Lukhanyo Ka Dideka This is an excerpt from Lukhanyo's Honours essay submitted late 2019 titled "Senzeni na Nkosi: The Politics of...
iliso_ ekapa
Feb 19, 20205 min read
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What lost photos of Blue Notes say about South Africa’s jazz history
by Lindelwa Dalamba In 1964 a young South African student and photography enthusiast, Norman Owen-Smith, took his Leica camera along to a...
iliso_ ekapa
Jan 30, 20205 min read
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Power of Music in Sudan: The sounds of “organised chaos”
Vusumzi Nkomo “No other place-names depend upon such violence. No other nouns owe their integrity to this semiotics of death. Meditations...
iliso_ ekapa
Oct 14, 20193 min read
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CANCER Pt. 3
#3 iLiso will publish a 16-set conceptual poem, Cancer, by poet Mustapha Jinadu, with a Italian translation by Elisa Della Martire. This...
iliso_ ekapa
Sep 2, 201915 min read
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CANCER Pt. 2
#2 iLiso will publish a 16-set conceptual poem, Cancer, by poet Mustapha Jinadu, with a Italian translation by Elisa Della Martire....
iliso_ ekapa
Sep 2, 20195 min read
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Amafa- Politics and Problematics of [Heritage = Inheritance]
Vusumzi Nkomo (This article was originally published on the 25th of September, 2018) Second year African film studies, I picked up a book...
iliso_ ekapa
Sep 2, 20194 min read
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Foreighn: the tale of a one-way-ticket to Cape Town
Vusumzi Nkomo The movement of Africans throughout the African continent predates the colonial capture of our Black/ened bodies, territory...
iliso_ ekapa
Jul 29, 20194 min read
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