07/05/2019
The Amsterdam-based South African artist Neo Matloga is nominated for the 2019 de Volkskrant Visual Art Award. ‘For me ZAM magazine was the first magazine reflecting people of colour. (…) It connects me to my people.’
18/04/2019
On 29 March 1988 five bullets ended the life of South African liberation movement activist Dulcie September.
09/04/2019
So much international praise and a range of awards for the début of British-Nigerian writer Lesley Nneka Arimah.
09/04/2019
The Ivorian novelist, playwright, poet and former Minister of Culture died on March 9, 2019, in Abidjan.
09/04/2019
Santu Mofokeng: storyteller
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“It took me less than half a minute to feel blown away by Mofokeng’s photo’s”, writes Laurens Nijzink.
26/03/2019
For five years, Ben Krewinkel has been building an ever growing collection of 20th century African photobooks. The 500 to 550 titles in his possession reflect the changing visual representation of the continent. Krewinkel’s collection is visible online; he is also working on a book.
26/03/2019
She is one of the driving forces behind the country’s and continent’s literary renaissance.
18/03/2019
The latest issue of the Johannesburg Review of Books brings you, amongst many others: Bongani Madondo, Rustum Kozai, Lebohang Mojapelo, Troy Onyango, Victor Dlamini, Niq Mhlongo, Eben Venter, Guy Tillim and Efemia Chela.
14/03/2019
“No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.” - Ursula K. Le Guin
04/02/2019
First we were accused of ‘gross distortions’. Now the mining company gives in.
04/02/2019
The Faso Dance Théâtre will perform an excerpt of Kirina at the Nelson Mandela Lecture. Librettist Felwine Sarr explores a mythical West African story that inspired the choreography.
04/02/2019
The Contemporary African Photography Prize is open for entries to its eighth edition.
22/01/2019
It was the good old days, and I was a small boy smothered by the smorgasbord of sensations symbolic of the age of wonder.
22/01/2019
What would a borderless world look like? It sounds like utopia but in his essay, South Africa-based Cameroonian thinker Achille Mbeme makes the realities of borders, restrictions and the right to move denied to most people in the world look far more surreal than the alternative.
22/01/2019
‘We shall not be silenced’
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We are shocked by the assassination of our Ghanaian colleague and investigative journalist Ahmed Hussein Suale.
22/01/2019
On Monday 17 December, 2018, our colleague Estacio Valoi and his team were arrested by the Mozambican army.
20/12/2018
A Woman's Worth: in 5 Words.
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What does #MeToo mean for women in non-Western cultures?
18/12/2018
The keynote speaker at the upcoming Amsterdam Nelson Mandela Lecture has just published her first short story in the Johannesburg Review of Books.
06/12/2018
'I cannot fight against Apartheid without claiming the right for LGBTI people to be free.' - Simon Tseko Nkoli
06/12/2018