Why Abantu Book Fest Needs To Reconsider Its White People Stance
The Abantu Book Festival took place for the third year in a row this past weekend, and more people than ever attended. The festival...
Incubus’ Ben Kenny On Growing up with White Rock & Roll...
The Daily Vox caught up with alternative rock band Incubus’s bassist Ben Kenney about an hour before their maiden performance in South Africa on...
The Color Purple Musical is a must-see for all
The Broadway-staged The Color Purple musical had its opening performance with an all South African cast at the Joburg Theatre on Sunday and The...
5 Reasons To Read Esi Edugyan’s “Washington Black”
Can a person who was enslaved ever be free? This is the question Canadian author Esi Edugyan grapples with in her masterpiece novel: Washington...
Twitter Is Losing It Over Drake’s New Album Scorpion
Hold on to your wigs, Drake just dropped his double album Scorpion and Twitter is about to break. The 25-track album has all the...
Damilare Sonoiki On Writing Black Identity In Hollywood
Damilare Sonoiki is a Nigerian screenwriter and producer who has written for Black-ish and The Simpsons. He will be in South Africa later this...
Monna O Montsho
'Monna o montsho' is a Setswana phrase that translates to 'black man' however, it is also the name of a wood sculpture my grandmother...
Animated Film Fosters Hair Love For Black Girls And Their Dads
When the internet identifies with a project, amazing things happen. A filmmaker in the United States is getting a lot of love - and...
Hixtape Is The Lituation We Never Deserved
Easy, breezy, and fun, BTS rapper Jung Hoseok's mixtape has finally dropped and it's everything we hoped for and more! After months of waiting,...
This Setswana author helps children fall in love with reading in...
Charmaine Mrwebi (34) used to visit the library daily as a child and fell in love with stories and storytelling - today her own...
SA ARMY Put Up A Billboard To Celebrate BTS’s Five-Year Anniversary
From 1 June to 4 July, two billboards of K-pop group BTS will be displayed at the Canal Walk Shopping Centre in Cape Town....
Conjuring Soft Magic With Storyteller Upile Chisala
“Growing up, I never read books by black women,” the Malawian storyteller Upile Chisala told an audience at the Sandton Exclusive Books on Wednesday...
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Ducks Questions On Transphobia
After almost an hour delay, acclaimed Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie arrived at the Abantu Book Festival on Friday afternoon. Adichie was in conversation...
The Holocaust and Genocide Centre Remembers The 2008 Xenophobic Attacks
It's been 10 years since the 2008 xenophobic attacks that took place throughout the country, claiming the lives of 60 people and injuring hundreds....
How Dario Manjate Creates Green Art
Dario Manjate is a Mozambican collage artist who came to South Africa in 1994 and now operates a studio out of the Victoria Yards...
The MASHURAH exhibit spotlights Muslim artists in South Africa
MASH?RAH ARTS is a new initiative that aims to amplify Muslim voices in the South African art scene. Their first exhibition is titled MASH?RAH....
Rosie Motene On Her Book “Reclaiming The Soil”
A black girl's struggle to find her African self is the tagline of Rosie Motene's autobiography. In her book, the presenter, actor and businesswoman...
The Ultimate K-pop Summer Playlist
There's a k-pop song to satisfy your every summer whim. Whether you're road tripping to a holiday destination, chilling on the beach or getting...
The Weekly Dissident: Myesha Jenkins, socialist, feminist, internationalist “race” woman
In the Weekly Dissident today, Mphutlane wa Bofelo converses with feminist activist and poet, Myesha Jenkins.
MwB: I understand that you only started writing upon...
Lesego Vorster Wants to Get South Africa And Africa Animating
Lesego Vorster is a South African animator and designer who is currently studying at the renowned French animation school, Gobelins. He was the first...
