Category: Writing
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#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’.
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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.
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Notes On Parenting
Notes on Parenting is a podcast about raising a child, where it began, and how we’re navigating it.
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#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.”
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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…
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#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.
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How I’m Getting By: Life As A Freelance Writer
My name is Tseliso Monaheng. I pawn words and pimp phrases for a living.
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Reading Lesotho Hip Hop: An On-Line Repository
Tello Leballo, the supreme broadcaster, acclaimed deejay and founder of Sky Alpha HD, known as Lesotho’s first on- 24-hour streaming radio service, started a Twitter thread paying homage to the many people who were instrumental in building the rap movement.
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The Street Art Project
It was a Sunday. I had asked fellow writer and photographer Lidudumalingani Mqombothi to accompany me on a mission of early morning, innercity exploration, and he’d obliged. We started our journey in Jeppestown and blitzkrieg’d our way towards Newtown, stopping along the way to inspect stand-out pieces.
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Nonso Amadi: The Come-Up, Paying Homage, The Nu EP
The vocalist, producer and songwriter Nonso Amadi’s first time out of his country of birth was in 2015, when he went to pursue further education in the UK.
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