Policing black women’s hair
The policing of black hair often begins at a very young age, in the most subtle and intimate spaces, long before you get to school.
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Leila Dee Dougan
Leila Dee Dougan is a South African journalist and documentary filmmaker.
History will break your heart
An interview – captured on film – with Cape Town-born artist Kemang Wa Lehulere about his work.
The statue in the garbage bag
Watch: South Africa’s ‘born frees’ gag on the rainbow nation pill they’ve been fed for the past 21 years.
The first feature film out of the DRC in over 28 years
Viva Riva! director, Djo Tunda Wa Munga, on African self-representation, and opening a production company in “chaos.”
Pan-African fashion that rejects “social entrepreneurship”
Rejecting how African products are marketed to Westerners.
Umlilo is young, black and queer in South Africa
The artist Umlilo documents their metamorphosis from a tortured outsider to a fully realized divine being.
Live from Grahamstown
The National Arts Festival, that celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2014, is the second biggest arts festivals in the world.
Buckingham Palace
District Six was the start of a really vibrant, none racial South African and that’s why it had to die.
Boxing lesson
Our video department went to train at the Hillbrow Boxing Club in downtown Johannesburg.
The Expatriate
Ethiopian-American artist, Wayna, explores issues including police brutality, disenfranchisement, race and identity in her music.
The everyday lives of African immigrants in South Africa
An alternative lens on migration stories that are often ignored in the mainstream media.