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  • #Studio | Mushroom Hour Releases Tumi Mogorosi’s ‘Group Theory: Black Music’ Film

    #Studio | Mushroom Hour Releases Tumi Mogorosi’s ‘Group Theory: Black Music’ Film

    Drummer Tumi Mogorosi’s ‘Group Theory: Black Music’ comes nearly a decade since he broke into the improvised music scene with 2014’s ‘Project Elo’.

    Tseliso Monaheng

    November 23, 2022
    Album review, Creative projects, Featured In, Fotos, Live Music, Video, Writing
    Black Music, Film, Mushroom Hour, South African Jazz, Tumi Mogorosi
  • Who Is Burna Boy?

    Who Is Burna Boy?

    When discussing the music and person of the Grammy award-winning Nigerian superstar, Burna Boy, the initial step is to settle upon which version one is interested in exploring.

    Tseliso Monaheng

    October 22, 2022
    Fotos, Writing
    Afrobeats, Burna Boy, DSTv Delicious International Food and Music Festival, Grammy Awards, Nigeria
  • Notes On Parenting

    Notes On Parenting

    Notes on Parenting is a podcast about raising a child, where it began, and how we’re navigating it.

    Tseliso Monaheng

    August 14, 2022
    Creative projects, Podcast, Writing
    Blended Family, Children, Family, Marriage, Notes on Parenting, Parenthood, Podcast
  • #Review | Quotable Quotes From Rofhiwa Maneta’s Book Launch

    #Review | Quotable Quotes From Rofhiwa Maneta’s Book Launch

    “I was deliberately blurring the lines between being my dad’s biographer, and being his son. It was never gonna be an objective book; I’m writing about my father.”

    Tseliso Monaheng

    April 15, 2022
    Fotos, Writing
    A Man A Corpse A Fire, Amos Maneta, Blackbird Books, Book Circle, Literature, Melville, Rofhiwa Maneta, Sihle Mthembu
  • Documenting The Process: The Indaba Is… Zine Ting

    Documenting The Process: The Indaba Is… Zine Ting

    Siya Mthembu had contacted me a few months prior to ask if I’d be down to hang out while a revolution unfolded before my eyes. Of course I’d be down, was my response. That initial proposition was followed by silence. I made nothing of the whole affair until, some two months into our COVID19-induced lockdown…

    Tseliso Monaheng

    August 1, 2021
    Creative projects, Fotos, Writing
    Brownswood, Indaba Is…, Mzansi Jazz, Photography, South African Jazz, Zine
  • On Afro-Futures

    On Afro-Futures

    Here’s a lil’ compilation of stuff I’ve written and filmed; stuff that has to do with imagining an alternative existence for us as Africans — be it through music, dance, or photography and film. Words On the sonic and spiritual worlds of Nduduzo Makhathini As he shared towards the end of the spiritual trip: “We…

    Tseliso Monaheng

    June 9, 2021
    Uncategorized
    Black Woman, Credo Mutwa, Futurism, Nduduzo Makhathini, Sibusile Xaba
  • Blk Jks Talk About Making Their New Album

    Blk Jks Talk About Making Their New Album

    Given that you’ve been playing together for so long, how do discussions around a song’s form happen? Does everyone kind of know how it’ll flow, or is there a sit-down beforehand to discuss the approach? You know the story of the hard drives being stolen at Soweto Theatre. By the time we were recording those…

    Tseliso Monaheng

    April 2, 2021
    Uncategorized
    Abantu/Before Humans, Blk Jks, Johannesburg, Live Music, Morena Leraba
  • #GuestPost | The Day I Decided To Leave

    #GuestPost | The Day I Decided To Leave

    If I remember correctly, I went to my lectures, and would leave when I came back from uni. I went back ‘home’ with the intention to leave, only to second guess my choice, like I had done in the past. I was going to stay again; and he beat me, again.

    Tseliso Monaheng

    August 3, 2020
    Guest Post, Writing
    GBV, Gender Based Violence, Healing, Self-love, South Africa, Women’s Month
  • How I’m Getting By: Life As A Freelance Writer

    How I’m Getting By: Life As A Freelance Writer

    My name is Tseliso Monaheng. I pawn words and pimp phrases for a living.

    Tseliso Monaheng

    June 13, 2020
    Random thoughts, Writing
    Finance, Fourth Industrial Revolution, Freelance, Gig economy, Money, Writer
  • Driving and Dreaming With Famole

    Driving and Dreaming With Famole

    In Maseru, a “4+1” refers to a five-seater vehicle used to transport people around town. Drivers also offer long-distance trips, often used by Basotho who have business in Ladybrand or Bloemfontein. One afternoon, Tseliso Monaheng caught a 4+1 from the other side of town to the taxi rank. The single passenger and driver embarked on…

    Tseliso Monaheng

    March 18, 2020
    Uncategorized
    ‘Mino oa Sesotho, Famole, Fito, Koriana, Lesotho, Mants’a
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