1. We begin this enquiry with BESTIARY OF CAPITAL - HORSE. A banknote, a branch, a horse. 2. Paulo had no biz pairing banknotes with...

Vusumzi Nkomo WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO ANTAGONIZE ARCHITECTURE? To have things spring up to fight you, grab you by the collar and beat you up...

Vusumzi Nkomo In Euro-modern philosophical anthropology and aesthetic judgement, Blacks, as Kant wrote, never “rise above the trifling,”...

Kholeka Shange Kulesisikhathi sesigemegeme somqedazwe ekuthiwa phecelezi i-Corona noma i-Covid-19, u-Zoë Modiga usipha ikhambi elilapha...

Vusumzi Nkomo “Vertigo must have seized them…” 1 I want to argue that Nkosi X’s VoidTape is a project of Vertigo, which is to say, it is...

Azola Dayile and Vusumzi Nkomo November 2019 saw us one evening at the Goodman Gallery in Rosebank – our first time – to witness the...

Ofentse’s show at Eclectica Contemporary invites us into a conversation about the precarity of Black life, the imminence of Black death,...

Despite a Antarctic thawing 36°C Cape Town blaze from Helios, Blessing, winner of the Standard Bank Young Artist Award (for Visual Arts)...

by Vusumzi Nkomo To liberate Black working class masculinity from decadence is not a favour, but a historical task. Jahmil X.T. Qubeka’s...

by Matt Carotenuto African documentary films rarely provide a window into intimate family disputes. The Letter by Maia Lekow and...

by Kitso Seti We smiled both sadly and happily, packed our bags, and kissed our single mothers goodbye. We were on the quest of bettering...

by Vusumzi Nkomo The Resilience & circles 1 You can’t ignore the circles in Bra Dave’s work. Curator Bra Thembinkosi Goniwe says these...

by Lindelwa Dalamba In 1964 a young South African student and photography enthusiast, Norman Owen-Smith, took his Leica camera along to a...

by Kholeka Shange Ninety six years ago, imbongikazi of the Chizama clan, Nontsizi Mgqwetho wrote a poem aptly titled Ukutula!...

Vusumzi Nkomo and Ncedisa Mpemnyama "It is the curse of the body to remember when memory has faded away”. Sisonke Papu, inyikima Not long...

Vusumzi Nkomo a sonic vignette of a place (market), a time (night), and the inevitable collision of the two. The place is presented as...

by Vusumzi Nkomo 1 “/I just want to be of use to my ancestors/“ -- Abbey Lincoln 2 Bra Willie’s absence in Thebe’s life makes an...

Vusumzi Nkomo Frank Wilderson III, in an interview with Saidiya Hartman, speaks of the un-reliability of the white ‘ally’ positionality...

Vusumzi Nkomo All scribblers and art critics, in the Cape at least, should all be ashamed of how we’ve all kept quiet, for an entire...

(This article was originally published on the 17th of September, 2018) Njabulo Zwane i sharpen knives in the long night, awaiting the...