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KOFI AGAWU
African Art Music and the Challenge of Postcolonial Composition
PAUL ZILUNGISELE TEMBE
China’s Effective Anti-Corruption Campaign
DILIP M. MENON
Changing Theory: Thinking Concepts from the Global South
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Talking about music
Theme AI in Africa
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An (Other) Intelligence
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Umshini Uyakhuluma (The Machine Speaks) – Africa and the AI Revolution: Exploring the Rapid Development of Artificial Intelligence on the Continent.
OLORI LOLADE SIYONBOLA
A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence in Africa
CHRIS EMEZUE & IYANUOLUWA SHODE
AI and African Languages: Empowering Cultures and Communities
NOLAN OSWALD DENNIS
Toward Misrecognition. | Project notes for a haunting-ting
SLINDILE MTHEMBU
AI and documenting black women's lived experiences: Creating future awareness through AI-generated sonics and interpretive movement for the future of freeing suffering caused on black bodies.
ALEXANDRA STANG
Artificially Correct? How to combat bias and inequality in language use with AI
BAKARY DIARRASSOUBA
Bambara: The Jeli (Griot) Project
ROY BLUMENTHAL
Artificial Intelligence and the Arcane Art of the Prompt
AI GENERATED
"AI on Artificial Intelligence in Africa" and "Exploring its impact on Art and Creativity"
JULIA SCHNEIDER
AI in a biased world
MBANGISO MABASO
Bana Ba Dinaledi: Telling African Stories using Generative AI Art.
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African AI today
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Using Artificial Intelligence to expand coverage of African content on Wikipedia
DARRYL ACCONE
Welcome to The End of Beauty: AI Rips the Soul Out of Chess
VULANE MTHEMBU & ChatGPT
Hello ChatGPT - A conversation with OpenAI's Assistant
DIMITRI VOUDOURIS
Evolution of Sιήκ
STEFANIE KASTNER
Beyond the fact that most robots are white: Challenges of AI in Africa
MARTIJN PANTLIN
Some notes from herri’s full stack web developer on the AI phenomenon
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4 Universal Truths and selected Camo
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Four Portals
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Litema
NESA FRÖHLICH
Agapanthus artificialis: Biodiversität im digitalen Raum. Vierteilige Serie, Johannesburg 2022.
STEVEN J FOWLER
2 AI collaborations and 9 asemic scribbles
PATRICIA ANN REPAR
Integrating Healing Arts and Health Care
SHERRY MILNER
Fetus & Host
borborygmus
JANNIKE BERGH
BCUC = BANTU CONTINUA UHURU CONSCIOUSNESS
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Jill Richards: Try, try, try...
VULANE MTHEMBU & HEIKKI SOINI
Nguni Machina remixed
AFRICAN NOISE FOUNDATION
Perennial fashion – noise (After Adorno).
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Do Magazines Culture?
NDUMISO MDAYI
Biko and the Hegelian dialectic
LEHLOHONOLO MAKHELE
The Big Other
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KHAHLISO MATELA
At Virtue’s Zone
DIANA FERRUS
In memory of “Lily” who will never be nameless again
VUYOKAZI NGEMNTU
Six Poems from the Shadows
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3 Durban Poems
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I’m Writing You A Letter You Will Never read
OMOSEYE BOLAJI
People of the Townships episode 3
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SIMON GIKANDI
Introducing Pelong Ya Ka (excerpt)
UNATHI SLASHA
"TO WALK IS TO SEE": Looking Inside the Heart - Sophonia Machabe Mofokeng’s Pelong ya Ka
VANGILE GANTSHO
Ilifa lothando – a Review of Ilifa by Athambile Masola
ZIZIPHO BAM
Barbara Boswell found in The Art of Waiting for Tales
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Hauntings: the public appearance of what is hidden
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Taking radical optimism beyond hope - Amakomiti: Grassroots Democracy in South Africa’s Shack Settlements
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WHITE MISCHIEF – Our past (again) filtered through the lens of coloniality: Andrew Smith’s First People – The lost history of the Khoisan
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SULKE VRIENDE IS SKAARS - a clarion call for the importance of the old and out-of-fashion
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Kristian Blak String Quartets Neoquartet
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A Conversation with Mantombi Matotiyana 9 April 2019
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An Auto-Ethnographic Reflection on Process
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Ghoema
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The Art of Cape Town Singing: Anwar Gambeno (1949-2022)
ESTHER MARIE PAUW
Something in Return, Act II: The Blavet-Varèse project
STEPHANUS MULLER
Afrikosmos: the keyboard as a Turing machine
MKHULU MNGOMEZULU
Ubizo and Mental Illness: A Personal Reflection
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FRANK MEINTJIES
James Matthews: dissident writer
SABATA-MPHO MOKAE
Platfontein, a place the !Xun and Khwe call home
NEO LEKGOTLA LAGA RAMOUPI
A Culture of Black Consciousness on Robben Island, 1970 - 1980
NELSON MALDONADO-TORRES
Outline of Ten Theses on Coloniality and Decoloniality*
ARYAN KAGANOF
An interview with Don Laka: Monday 10 February 2003
JONATHAN EATO
Recording and Listening to Jazz and Improvised Music in South Africa
MARKO PHIRI
Bulawayo’s movement of Jah People
STEVEN BROWN
Anger and me
feedback
MUSA NGQUNGWANA
15 May 2020
ARYAN KAGANOF / PONE MASHIANGWAKO
Tuesday 21 July 2020, Monday 27 July, 2020
MARIA HELLSTRÖM REIMER
Monday 26 July 2021
SHANNON LANDERS
22 December 2022
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CHRIS ALBERTYN
Lost, unknown and forgotten: 24 classic South African 78rpm discs from 1951-1965.
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Reflections on Transformation at Stellenbosch University
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ARYAN KAGANOF / PONE MASHIANGWAKO

Tuesday 21 July 2020, Monday 27 July, 2020

Tuesday 21 July 2020


Dear Pone,

Thank you for your incredible patience with me. It was very hard for me to respond to you. Your compilation brought up so much emotion, so many memories and such a deep and profound sense of sadness that it became impossible for me to speak really. You know I met your father through Ntate Lefifi and Bra’ Geoff and almost all our interactions were in that context – a quartet. Sometimes a trio with slightly shifting members, but mainly as a quartet. And we laughed so much Pone. You know Bra’ Geoff and Ntate Lefifi are real raconteurs, those two can talk and then they don’t stop. So very often it was either Lefifi or Bra’ Geoff talking, and me laughing and your dad smiling because he had heard all these stories so many times before and indeed, had lived through most of these stories as a participant. Your dad did not talk as much as Bra’ Geoff and Lefifi, and when he did it was often faltering, because of his stutter, but every time he spoke, and I do mean every time, I am not exaggerating here, he spoke with a passion and truth and wisdom that battered the senses and made one take in what he said to the deepest register of consciousness. He wasn’t a small talk light and easy type of guy. He had that very heavy thing inside of him that came out in his art and came out in his eyes sometimes. It’s always trite and a bit condescending when so-called “white” people talk about black pain so it’s mainly something I avoid. But your dad was a man whose life had embodied so much of that black pain and yet, when I met him he opened his heart to me and allowed me in and gave me to drink from the fountain of his wisdom and artistry. And you know beyond all the heavy stuff is an even deeper valley where the four of us used to hang out, that rare space where men are just kids together, just chilling and causing shit. Once we were driving in my Vallaza (straight six 1966) and some motherfucker in an expensive brand new white Mercedes was coming along the road towards us and he was driving a bit too close to our side of the road and a bit too fast and I felt the devil come licking up in my soul and I put foot and that motherfucker got scared and pulled to the side as I knew he would because his car was new and mine was very old so you do the math. And the four of us just howled with glee. It was childish and I was twenty years too old to be pulling that mischief but it felt right you know? And your dad was like that. He always understood what felt right and he went that way. So his spirit came to me when I listened to your mix and I went silent on you Pone because it hurts to lose a soul connection you know? Those connections are very rare. God bless you man, thank you for bringing your father back to me in an Artist’s Prayer.

Respectfully,
Aryan

Motlhabane Mashiangwako photo copyright Pone Mashiangwako

Monday 27 July 2020

Dear Uncle Aryan

Hope you’re well and taking care.

My deepest apologies for taking too long to respond, your message took me back to a time when the collective was together and you’d have your long conversations with my dad while perusing his art work and listening to music. It gave me so much warmth knowing that a piece of my father still exists in people like you Uncle Aryan. I remember when you gave him your canvases and he did his magic on them, call it a collabo; and the emotion you and Bra’ Geoff had when you saw the final product, made me happy because there was and still is oneness amongst all of you, true inspiration of what brotherhood is. An Artist’s Prayer was a dedication to all of you, not just my father because my memories of an artist are not just with him, but with the whole crew, hence it has always been his wish for me to learn from all of you; to study under Uncle Lefifi for poetry, to study under you for film, to study under Sir Ike for sculpting and so forth. It is still my wish to study with you, so that in the end, we could both make it into an indie masterpiece, that puts giants like Quentin Tarantino and Martin Scorsese to tears after bending the whole world over and penetrating it with lightning ha ha ha. What I’m trying to say is, as long as it took for me to find you, you’ve never stopped being family and you always will be. 

With love and respect

Pone Son of Si a.k.a The Modern Day Hippie a.k.a cthulhu
namaste🙏

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