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Monthly Archives: March 2014
Apartheid Revisited
Mary Corrigall visits the ‘Rise and Fall of Apartheid’ photo exhibition, observes overlooked details in some of the most iconic images, and reflects on the politics of looking.
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Tagged Hector Pieterson, Jurgen Shadeberg, Okwui Enwezor, Peter Magubane, photography, Sam Nzima, Sophiatown
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Fantasy, reality, madness and Museveni’s Uganda: lessons of history
Angelo Fick, analysing the contentious homophobic legislation recently passed in Uganda, warns against crude and reductionist responses to these anti-gay bills.
Un-ma(s)king Mandela: an interview with Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi
In an interview with Joshua Maserow, Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi meditates on the relation between Art, capitalism and popular mythology.
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Tagged Anene Booysen, Apartheid museum, hero, history, icon, knowledge, myth, Nelson Mandela, painting, Reeva Steenkamp, Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi
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Orientalism
Following the kerfuffle caused by the Mount Nelson’s gingerbread shack cake, Sarah Emily Duff outlines the problematics of food writing.
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Tagged depoliticised, exploitation, food, Mount Nelson Hotel, Nelson Mandela, privilege, Woolworths
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