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The founder of Black Consciousness kept evolving; by the time of his terrible death he was moving away from hard-line racial isolationism. DREW FORREST traces h

In my humble opinion all of Tsitsi Dangarembga’s books should be essential reading in schools, universities and households throughout the world.

We interview Counterspace architect and founder Sumayya Vally, who talks about her dreams, inspiration, current reading list, and Johannesburg

The end of lockdown is an chance to think differently about our own emancipation. In the spirit of Robert Sobukwe, it starts with our minds.

Letlhogonolo Mokgoroane hand-picks 7 books written by Black authors to reflect on the revolution. As there is continued political instability across the African continent (and the world), these books put into words what many Black people are feeling.

Refusing to simplify reality for the sake of clarity, the artist’s approach runs against dominant dogmatic culture

‘Rainbow Nation’ is an aspirational phrase towards which Tutu would have willed the recalcitrant South African society.

Apartheid laws created the misery that SA’s children and their caregivers find themselves in By Neziswa Titi, Children’s Institute of UCT 2h ago Share In the last year, we have seen worrisome media reports of children bullying each other. The public has expressed grave concern with calls for schools to take action against children who violate their peers. In one particular case, we witnessed the detrimental psycho-social effects of bullying which can lead to suicide or children being ...

Through a digital essay game that involves texts from Frantz Fanon, Octavia E Butler, Dambudzo Marechera and other radical theorists, the artist reimagines the way we read, learn and ‘write’.



Toni Morrison died on 5 August at the age of 88 as a result of pneumonia-related complications. In 1993, she became the first African-American woman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature and she won a Pulitzer Prize in 1988 for her classic work Beloved. Morrison was a towering literary figure. New Frame asked writers who were influenced by Morrison to share what her work meant for them.  Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison recieved an honorary doctor of letters from the UofT Tuesday...