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May 13, 20214 min read

eBhakubha: Architecture, the Black Grotesteque and Performative Geography

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...

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Nov 17, 20205 min read

Kwaito On The Move: dis + continuities in the Afrodiaspora

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

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Oct 26, 20204 min read

Sampheka ngogozwane! Ucubungulo lwe-album “Inganekwane” ka Zoë Modiga

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

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Oct 1, 20202 min read

To wallow in the Void

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...

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Oct 1, 20204 min read

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...

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Oct 1, 20204 min read

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...