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Contents

DON LETTS & SINÉAD O’CONNOR

Trouble of the World

MOEMEDI KEPADISA

A useful study in Democracy

Why Music Must Be Revolutionary – and How It Can Be

LOUIS CHUDE-SOKEI

Walking With Sound: Race and the Prosthetic Ear

Theme Lefifi Tladi

A Portrait of Ntate Lefifi Victor Tladi

Tladi Lefifing!

Munti wa Marumo (Return to the source): Lefifi Tladi’s Cultural Contributions to the Struggle 1970-1980

CREATING CONSCIOUSNESS - Black Art in 1970s South Africa

Convergence at the OASIS

One More Poem For Brother Dudu Pukwana

PONE MASHIANGWAKO

My Journey with Mammoths: Motlhabane Mashiangwako and Lefifi Tladi.

GEOFF MPHAKATI & ARYAN KAGANOF

ES’KIA MPHAHLELE

Renaming South Africa

LERATORATO KUZWAYO

Boitemogelo - Definitions of consciousness draped in Blackness

BRIDGET THOMPSON

Piecing Together Our Humanity and Consciousness, Through Art, Life and Nature: Some thoughts about friendship with the artist, musician and wordsmith: Lefifi Tladi

LEFIFI TLADI with REZA KHOTA & HLUBI VAKALISA

Bra Si and Bra Victor: The Black Consciousness Artists Motlhabane Mashiangwako & Lefifi Tladi

FRÉDÉRIC IRIARTE

Lefifi Tladi – The Score

Simultaneous Multidimensionality in African Music: Musical Cubism

A Portrait of Motlhabane Simon Mashiangwako, Mamelodi, 1978

ZIM NGQAWANA & LEFIFI TLADI

Duet of the Seraphim

PERFECT HLONGWANE

Voices in the Wilderness: A Trans-Atlantic Conversation with LEFIFI TLADI

LEFIFI TLADI with JOHNNY MBIZO DYANI & THABO MASHISHI

Toro for Bra Geoff

LEKGETHO JAMES MAKOLA

Facebook Post May 24 2023

Darkness After Light: Portraits of Lefifi Tladi

The African Isness of Colour

A Portrait of Lefifi Tladi, an Alchemist Illuminating Consciousness, London, 1980s.

LIZE VAN ROBBROECK & STELLA VILJOEN

Corpus of Ecstasy: Zanele Muholi at Southern Guild

BADABEAM BADABOOM

Excerpts from the genius cult book of black arts

African Wedding (super8mm 9fps)

folk tales and traditions, the algorithm, ancient history and the city of Nairobi

NHLANHLA DHLAMINI

How to Fight the Robot Army and Win?

DZATA: THE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGICAL CONSCIOUSNESS

A Repository of Thought

AMOGELANG MALEDU

Colonial collections as archival remnants of reclamation and (re)appropriation: reimagining the silenced Isigubu through Gqom

MALAIKA MAHLATSI

Townships were never designed for family recreation

Can I get a witness: sense-less obsessions, brandism, and boundaries by design

SALIM WASHINGTON

Benjamin Jephta: “Born Coloured, Not Born Free”

The Flamenco Dancer

KEVIN BISMARK COBHAM

Plasticizing Frantz and Malcolm. Ventriloquism. Instrumentalization.

ARTURO DESIMONE

What the Devil do they Mean When they Say “Crystal Clear?’’

My naam is Februarie/My name is February

8 Poems From Poverty Tastes Like Fart! Ramblings, Side Notes, Whatever!

KHULILE NXUMALO & SIHLE NTULI

The Gcwala Sessions

LESEGO RAMPOLOKENG

Jazz, Bass and Land

ZOE BOSHOFF & SABITHA SATCHI

Love, War and Insurrection - A discussion about poetry with Ari Sitas

Botmaskop (Afrikaanse Mistress)

RAPHAEL D’ABDON

kings fools and madwomen (after dario fo and janelle monae)

home is where the hut is - Notes for a future essay on Ayanda Sikade’s Umakhulu

MATTHIJS VAN DIJK

Bow Project 2: Bowscapes – In Memory of Jürgen Bräuninger

PATRICK LEE-THORP

A discourse in the language of the Global North based on the colonial history of copyright itself: Veit Erlmann's Lion’s Share.

PERFECT HLONGWANE

A close reading of Siphiwo Mahala’s Can Themba – The Making and Breaking of an Intellectual Tsotsi: A Biography

The Anatomy of Betrayal: Molaodi wa Sekake’s Meditations from the Gutter

NCEBAKAZI MANZI

Captive herds. Erasing Black Slave experience

Chwayita Ngamlana’s If I Stay Right Here: a novel of the digital age

Nthikeng Mohlele’s The Discovery of Love: a bloodless collection.

The Poetry of Victor Wessels: black, brooding black

NATHAN TRANTRAAL

Ons is gevangenes van dit wat ons liefhet: Magmoed Darwiesj gedigte in Afrikaans

Khadija Heeger's Thicker Than Sorrow – a witnessing.

Zodwa Mtirara’s Thorn of the Rose

Third Cinema, World Cinema and Marxism without a single African Author?

NDUDUZO MAKHATHINI

Spirituality in Bheki Mseleku’s Music

ESTHER MARIE PAUW

Africa Open Improvising & AMM-All Stars

STEPHANUS MULLER

An interview with Jürgen Bräuninger and Sazi Dlamini

TSITSI ELLA JAJI

Charlotte Manye Maxeke: Techniques for Trans-Atlantic Vocal Projection

KGOMOTSO RAMUSHU

Skylarks and Skokiaan Queens: Jazz women as figures of dissent

Some Posters and LP Covers of South African JAZZ Designed by South African Artists

Memories of Sea Point

ANDERS HØG HANSEN

Sixto and Buffy: Two Indigenous North American Musical Journeys

REINBERT DE LEEUW

The Killer in Me

VANGILE GANTSHO

Thursday 8 December 2022

Monday 2 January 2023

WILLIAM KELLEHER

Wednesday, 1 February 2023

STEFAN MAYAKOVSKY

Thursday 2 March 2023

FACEBOOK FEEDBACK

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TENDAYI SITHOLE

Underground: The Sphere of 2SMan

DIE KOORTJIE UNDERCOMMONS

INGE ENGELBRECHT

1. Entering the undercommons

INGE ENGELBRECHT

2. Conserve undercommons

INGE ENGELBRECHT

3. Die Kneg en die Pinksterklong

INGE ENGELBRECHT

4. To be or not to be

INGE ENGELBRECHT

5. Ôs is dai koortjie

INGE ENGELBRECHT

6. Decoding die koortjie

INGE ENGELBRECHT

7. Die Holy of Holies

INGE ENGELBRECHT

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DOROTHEE RICHTER

(NON-)THINGS or Why Nostalgia for the Thing is Always Reactionary

ANASTASYA VANINA

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