Category: Random thoughts
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How It Feels (The Stolen Camera Edition)…
How does it feel to have your camera stolen? Well it sucks, it really does. The incident took place in Mofolo yesterday, early evening. I’m okay.
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I Refuse To Be Your Slave: A Writer’s Manifesto [A.K.A Fuck Dis Shit!]
![I Refuse To Be Your Slave: A Writer’s Manifesto [A.K.A Fuck Dis Shit!]](https://ntsoana.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/bttc2016_picture-by-tseliso-monaheng.jpg?w=1024)
In 2014, Jamaican roots reggae artist Kabaka Pyramid released “Never Gonna Be A Slave”, a charged emancipatory call delivered on the Cane River riddim produced by DJ Frass records.
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Why Older Heads Deserve The Utmost Respect
Stay in your lane and pay homage to them who came before. Not only that, but pay attention to what them who are coming after are doing.
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Ursula Mokoena, All Up In Them Videos
I just saw Ursula on the new Khuli Chana and Patoranking video and thought to post this up. Dope lady, always keen for a convo whenever it is I come across her. I’m a fan! I’ve been thinking about how to write about women in music videos, and the politics of the video industry: light-skinned […]
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For Bonzaya, Till We Meet Again…
My man Bonzaya passed away following some circumstances last year. These pictures were shot a few months before he left, on our way back to Cape Town CBD following a rehearsal with Youngsta. I’ve been sitting on these images for what seems like eternity, wondering what’s going to become of them. Photographing people’s difficult; they die and […]
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The Largest Collection Of Images Ever!
I was joking to self — or to someone, can’t recall — sometime ago about how I’m secretly amassing the largest collection of black contemporary writers like…ever! This picture of writers Ntone Edjabe and Percy Mabandu, taken 20th September 2013, was kinda what sparked it all. I’m still in on the ‘joke’ and shall be publishing more […]
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Can Someone Realistically Bring Stromae To Southern Africa?
What’s the likelihood of bringing this dude to a non-Francophone country? Who knows someone at the Alliance ov da Francaise? Tell a friend to tell a friend to whisper into a homie’s ear and pass this thing around. Let’s make it happen people, we need Stromae in life nje. *Stromae will be touring through Francophone African […]
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Objects Are Better To Photograph…
People are tricky because they can tell you if they don’t like an image of them you took.
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What Am I Supposed To Say?
I’ve been seeing an increasing amount of requests from musicians to give their music an ear. It’s nice, getting asked to comment on something. But I’m starting to feel that it’s nice in the same way that albums aren’t an immersive experience anymore; here today, in the recycle bin tomorrow, non-existent by the third day. It’s like the […]
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