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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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Zakifo 2019: What To Look Forward To
The last time I attended the multi-day music festival Zakifo was in 2017. The internationally-renowned vibe starter changed location the following year, along with adopting a manageable programme that saw different acts slotted at different venues around the city, allowing for an exploration of the music, and of the lifeline of Duban — its people.…
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#Satire | A Bevy of Gatvol Passengers Attack Low-Cost Airline. Yikes!
Flysafair reaches crisis mode as third passenger in a week goes on a tirade.
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#GuestPost | A Note On ‘Mesa
When days were bright, I watched my father laugh with his contemporaries such as late Famo musician, Ntate Hatlane, in the living room or verandah of the Maseru West house I grew up in.
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#GuestPost | Katlego Tapala’s Unreview of Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
‘The First Madness is That We Were Born, That They Stuffed a God Into a Bag of Skin’ This article has been updated to reflect Akwaeke Emezi’s preferred pronouns, they/them Usually, when reading, I am either entertained or impressed by technical mastery. It is rare for me to say a book changed my life, or…
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#Unreview | Matwetwe: Promotional Ideas
Matwetwe. Ace shit. Hyper-relatable. Anchored by a front-porch trio steeped tongue-deep in Spitori’s inventive linguistic twists, featuring a hood genius and his bathroom rapper and business mogul-aspirant friend, who mix in and out of the lives of a rolling cast of kasi residents. Their motive? Push trees. The strain? Matwetwe.
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#Satire | “It was a missed opportunity” – #MenAreTrash Denialist
“I mean, we could’ve changed the game mate, innit,” says a distressed Thembalamagumsha Khuzwayo a day after the world-renowned hashtag, which has been attributed to Twitter User @kwamsunu_000, was included in the latest edition of the Oxford English dictionary.