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editorial
NYOKABI KARIŨKI
On Learning that one of the first Electronic Works was by an African, Halim El-Dabh
MARIMBA ANI
An Aesthetic of Control
JANNIKE BERGH in conversation with HAIDAR EID
Even Ghosts Weep in Gaza
WANELISA XABA
White psychology, Black indecipherability and iThongo
Theme African Psychology
DYLAN VALLEY & BISO MATHA RIALGO
An Epidemic of Loneliness - introduction to the African Psychology theme section of herri #10
KOPANO RATELE in dialogue with ARYAN KAGANOF
Psychology Contra Psychology: In Search of the Most Appropriate Definition of African Psychology
N CHABANI MANGANYI
On Becoming a Psychologist in Apartheid South Africa
THOMAS HYLLAND ERIKSEN
African Psychology: serving as a reminder of human universals which have been lost or forgotten in mainstream Western psychology.
AUGUSTINE NWOYE
From Psychological Humanities to African Psychology: A Review of Sources and Traditions
SAM MATHE
Naming
ZETHU CAKATA
Ubugqirha: healing beyond the Western gaze
KOPANO RATELE
Dethingifying
PUMEZA MATSHIKIZA
A Psychological Explanation of Myself
SYLVIA VOLLENHOVEN
The Elephants in the Room
GWEN ANSELL
A New African String Theory: The Art of Being Yourself and Being with Others
ISMAHAN SOUKEYNA DIOP
Exploring Afro-centric approaches to mental healthcare
KOPANO RATELE
Four (African) Psychologies
LOU-MARIE KRUGER
Hunger
FIKILE-NTSIKELELO MOYA
"We are a wounded people."
CHARLA SMITH
Die “kywies” by die deur
KOPANO RATELE
Estrangement
MWELELA CELE
Sisi Khosi Xaba and the translation of Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth into isiZulu
HUGO KA CANHAM
Leaving psychology to look for shades and complexity in despair
MALAIKA MAHLATSI
When Black academics leave historically White institutions
PAUL KHAHLISO
AGAINST COLONIAL PSYCHOLOGY
KOPANO RATELE
The interior life of Mtutu: Psychological fact or fiction?
MTUTUZELI MATSHOBA
Call Me Not a Man
WILFRED BARETT DAMON
James Joyce En Ek
ASHRAF KAGEE
Three friends in Gaza: We grieve, we mourn, we condemn, we deplore, we march, we demonstrate, we attend seminars and webinars, we wave flags, we wear keffiyas, we show off our t-shirts, but still the killing continues.
KOPANO RATELE AND SOPHIA SANAN
African Art, Black Subjectivity, and African Psychology: Refusing Racialised Structures of Aesthetic or Identity Theories
galleri
DATHINI MZAYIYA
Musidrawology as Methodology
STEVEN J. FOWLER
Dathini Mzayiya – the sound of the mark as it comes into being.
NONCEDO GXEKWA
Musidrawology as Portraits of the Artist Dathini Mzayiya & his Art
NONCEDO GXEKWA & NADINE CLOETE
Musidrawology as Methodology: a work of art by Dathini Mzayiya
NJABULO PHUNGULA
Like Knotted Strings
SPACE AFRIKA
oh baby
STRAND COMMUNITY ART PROJECT
Hands of the Future
DENIS-CONSTANT MARTIN
The Blue Notes: Searching for Form and Freedom
DESMOND PAINTER
'with all the ambivalence of a car in the city...'
KOPANO RATELE
Ngoana Salemone/Mother
SOPHIA OLIVIA SANAN
Art as commodity, art as philosophy, art as world-making: notes from a conversation with Kopano Ratele on African Art, Black Subjectivity and African Psychology
ROBIN TOMENS
"Why don't you do something right and make a mistake?"
SIMON TAYLOR
On The Ontological Status of the Image
borborygmus
NAPO MASHEANE
Manifesto ea mokha oa makomonisi
MAKHOSAZANA XABA
Curious and Willing: Ngazibuza Ngaziphendula, Ngahumusha Kwahumusheka
RICHARD PITHOUSE
The Wretched of the Earth becomes Izimpabanga Zomhlaba
FRANTZ FANON/ MAKHOSAZANA XABA
The Wretched of the Earth - Conclusion
EUGENE SKEEF
Yighube!
VUYOKAZI NGEMNTU
Amahubo
MBE MBHELE
Who cares about Mandisi Dyantyis Anyway?
KARABO KGOLENG
Women and Water
BONGANI TAU
Notes on Spirit Capital
ADDAMMS MUTUTA
Conflict Cultures and the New South Africa
ADAM KEITH
A Conversation with Debby Friday
DICK EL DEMASIADO
Some Notes on Cumbia and Dub
MULTIPLE AUTHORS
Thinking decolonially towards music’s institution: A post-conference reflection
frictions
AAKRITI KUNTAL
Still
FORTUNATE JWARA
In between wor(l)ds
KHADIJA TRACEY HEEGER
A Love Letter
SHAFINAAZ HASSIM
Take your freedom and run
MPHUTLANE WA BOFELO
10 New Poems
KHULILE NXUMALO
Two Poems For
HENNING PIETERSE
Translating Van den vos Reynaerde (Of Reynaert the Fox) into Afrikaans
OSWALD KUCHERERA
Words to Treasure
MTUTUZELI MATSHOBA
To kill a man's pride
KELWYN SOLE
Political Fiction, Representation and the Canon: The Case of Mtutuzeli Matshoba
SABATA-MPHO MOKAE
Maboko a ga Alexander Pushkin 1799 - 1837
NAÒMI MORGAN
Why translate Godot into Afrikaans?
TENZIN TSUNDUE
Three Poems
claque
DILIP M. MENON
Hugo ka Canham’s Riotous Deathscapes
BARBARA ROUSSEAUX
Undoing Fascism: Notes on Milisuthando
WAMUWI MBAO
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: Reclaiming the Territory of the Mind
SISCA JULIUS
Ausi Told Me: My Cape Herstoriography
SERGIO HENRY BEN
Read. Write. Relevance. A review of Herman Lategan's Hoerkind.
MARIO PISSARRA
the Imagined New is a Work in Progress
MPHUTHUMI NTABENI
The city is mine by Niq Mhlongo: A review
KARABO KGOLENG
The Comrade’s Wife by Barbara Boswell
DOMINIC DAULA
Pain, Loss, and Reconciliation in Music and Society
KNEO MOKGOPA
Normal Bandits: Mix Tape Memories by Anders Høg Hansen
ADDAMMS MUTUTA
‘Southern Cinema Aesthetics’: broadly imagined in multiple frames
RUTH MARGALIT
Writing the Nakba in Hebrew
LESEGO RAMPOLOKENG
Coming to Johnson
ekaya
KOPANO RATELE
From "Wilcocks" to "Krotoa": The Name Changing Ceremony
ARYAN KAGANOF
The herriverse: Introducing a new kind of Research Method, one that is Structural or even Meta- insofar as it exists in the Reader’s Navigation of the Curated Space and the Possible Contingent Connections as much as in the Objects being Curated; an Epistemic Construction therefore, that is obliquely but absolutely determined by Ontologically Unpredictable Exchanges.
MARTIJN PANTLIN
Introducing herri Search
off the record
UHURU PHALAFALA
Keorapetse Kgositsile & The Black Arts Movement Book Launch, Book Lounge, Cape Town Wednesday 24 April 2024.
PALESA MOKWENA
Lefifi Tladi - "invisible caring" or, seeing and being seen through a spiritual lens
CHRISTOPHER BALLANTINE
Edmund "Ntemi” Piliso Jazzing Through Defeat And Triumph: An Interview
DENIS-CONSTANT MARTIN
CHRIS McGREGOR (1936-1990): Searching for Form and Freedom
SHAUN JOHANNES
In Memoriam Clement Benny
VEIT ERLMANN
"Singing Brings Joy To The Distressed" The Social History Of Zulu Migrant Workers' Choral Competitions
SAM MATHE
Stimela Sase Zola
MARKO PHIRI
Majaivana's Odyssey
EZEKIEL MPHAHLELE
The Non-European Character in South African English Fiction
BASIAMI “CYNTHIA” WAGAFA
Hyper-Literary Fiction: The (meta)Poetics Of Digital Fragmentation – an interview with August Highland
feedback
DIANA FERRUS
Thursday 20 February, 2020
LWAZI LUSHABA
Saturday 4 April 2020
NJABULO NDEBELE
Sunday 5 December 2021
BEN WATSON
6 June 2023 20:50
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LERATO “Lavas” MLAMBO
Real human person – a mix by Lavas
SIEMON ALLEN & CHRIS ALBERTYN
Celebrating the genius of Ntemi Edmund Piliso: A mix-tape of twenty five tunes recorded on 78rpm shellac in 25 years – 1953 to 1968
ALEKSANDAR JEVTIĆ
Stone Unturned 18: The Static Cargo of Stars
PhD
WARRICK SWINNEY
Stick Fighting against extinction: end beginnings and other dada nihilismus polemics
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KHULILE NXUMALO

Two Poems For

THar (for Tracey)

Melville
seventh Street
illuminates in a hong kong
popsicle colour

gossipers
rumour
mongers

we are tried
we are tired
spinning tops

joburg city dwellers
on south side of a city

that’s where there
is movement always

and a secret side
to this story

it has led us
many a moonless night

ceremonial as others do
daily facebook ritual

eternity
unending
is another one
of my own calabash shapes
around a note
coming out of a trumpet

red car silver car brown car
i can never remember

as we curve past
westdene dam,

i had the audacity
to whisper to you

reel or unreal
spirits or super
sci-fi and cosmological
characters  thunderous
misdemeanors

how it starts
i remember now

how it starts
i am just my part
in a poem inside a cloud

a hologram on
a green screen
grabs

a memorial
a struggle
for the bus
with school children

how it starts, how it gathers
and gathers, all those days
those many heats

of the Sun
that came in
as a fanged
helios

and finally
lays us down as a wreath
along the rusted railway track

II

mess attempts
day, day 390, down below
here in my heart

the valley curves
it’s bottom
and wet end

and here
a fretless
baseline

with such and such
so many strings

that send out
sharp shards
that leave out
of the dj mkhukhu box

that throw dancers
into a brixton ocean

some sing dribble
and shame on the corner

all alone

some are in the crowd
the crowd sings of rivers
sings of enough rain

rains with more kinder
holdings that always
bring on more mothers

some will drive home
some will crash their motorcars into the calabash

fnb stadium of our country’s world cup

here in the south
long wide choirs still screech
at the back

here in the south and here in the looped tunnel of the sabc

i remember
i would always encounter

a golden gnomon
candyfloss many colors
of extra heaven afro hair
locked inside a picture frame

here in the south
a rimmed spectacle teacher
at a gate of a convent

two oliver twist
urchins
in the garden of eden

a black divine mother
arrives back sooner
than it takes for our eyes
to look over and above
the atlantic ocean

at JAG
the floors had not yet gained
such wetter weight

at the universities anthro/
popo/morpho
pology says that they see

us that we are now
looking at us.

The governor and The mayor
(for Phokela)

amaphupho
izinto
ditoro
le dintho

le manaka
a dingaka
tsa di ngoaha ngoaha

ngoaha ngoaha ngoaha this governor and this mayor

run this town
from council
chambers

up above you
on the roof top

in a digital era
it’s fully fledged
glare into
our souls

it has a score, a deep score
and this governor
and this mayor

see nothing wrong
with liking your neighbor
with all the neighbors
that get along

heads facing toward
one direction until
they arrive at a house

they set the lawn alight

a flaming tower

rubs mine and yours and everybody’s skin

a mob rushes there
it gets cloaked and it gets
embellishments

maybe even a new tale
or even a nation’s self gazing
myth, wonders found very far
at the outskirts

a broken heal
also a tail, on a bow

a shrill somewhere
a daily sun headline
rodents as big as your hand

and now the soil even comes down
to the mountain’s feet

it was the governor
who then said
that the queen is dead.

pillow fights
must take place around
a ring of fire
noses bubbled by insolence

cut out
into four small boxes
those who just want to end it all, with a gun to the temple

the clamour
the visions lower
and lower

go dimmer

love and a slowest smile
that comes with the dawn

because it always
does, but then at night

the governor
and the mayor are always ready, like a vehicle

clad in
orange red
silver lined
reflectors, so as
to make

that night a
little brighter
than another

m
a
n
y

m
a
n
y

faces,
like
tonight
you will
see

at times
everything played itself
out backward, at
times a wall that is
stuck

in stasis. millions of
years yet that we
will

reach the farthest corners of this, our strangest century.

Author’s Note
I have spoken to the persons of dedication; they are both fine with being revealed. The work comes from a section in my current manuscript “unfurl” where I recall scenes, encounters and moments of lasting impression from the time when I was living in Melville, Johannesburg. In this case it is with Johannes Phokela and Tracey Rose. Johannes was working on an exhibition at Standard Bank called “i like my neighbours”. Tracey collaborated with me on a Chimurenga video piece about the influence of Staffrider in my development as Creative and Poet. I also spent some time with Tracey when she was working on an exhibition for the Goodman Gallery. The Chimu video is here: 

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