Elegy for Robo The Technician
Lesego Rampolokeng's tribute to an old school pioneer and one of the key builders of the South African hip hop scene.
Lesego Rampolokeng's tribute to an old school pioneer and one of the key builders of the South African hip hop scene.
Pierre Joris and Habib Tengou edit a book about the multiple beginnings, traditions and genealogies in the literatures of the many languages of the region, and the region's diasporas.
A former student of Kofi Awoonor remembers the famed Ghanaian writer who was killed in a terror attack by Al Shabaab in Niairobi, Kenya.
The academic Ato Quayson remembers the celebrated Ghanaian poet and intellectual, Kofi Awoonor (1935-2013), who was murdered in a terror attack in Kenya.
The Nigerian poet and critic, Odia Ofeimun, on how Nollywood depicts traditional culture and religion.
On Thursday, July 26, the Michael Stevenson Gallery in Cape Town had an opening: Mo(u)rning. Photographic
Makoko, in Lagos, with over 100, 000 residents, is viewed as a shantytown. There’s more to it. This is the destruction of a community.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AA6F553L17g ‘I am Malawi’ is a short documentary by Geert Veuskens and Pieter de Vos. (Part
Younger generations of artists, many immigrants of African origin, are reconfiguring the arts in France on their own terms.
The recent controversy around Günter Grass’s criticisms of Germany's arms trade with Israel is an interesting post-script to the Namibian genocide controversy.
When it comes to engaging with French language opinions and writings in English, it’s a desert out there.
From that same interview that I have been so liberally cutting and pasting from this week—in
More from that 2008 Comparative Literature interview with my favorite Communist poet, Jeremy Cronin. Bua Komanisi:
The daily word of inspiration (cut and pasted from Contemporary Literature) from my favorite, comtemporary Communist,
Jeremy Cronin is my favorite Communist. Astute, intellectual and a poet. Cronin is a former political
Although it was only launched a year ago, Cape Town-based Badilisha Poetry Radio is rapidly building
This is from a minute ago, but I had to post it as it features part
The poetry of Ronelda Kamfer sheds light on the still marginalized lives of South Africa’s “brown communities.”
Jacob Boersema, a Dutch PhD student who works on Afrikaner identity in postapartheid South Africa, recently