In conversation with Koleka Putuma
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in Written Word, culture, music
culture
9 Passports and No Pass
In this poetic commentary on Dathini Mzayiya’s video portrait of Miriam Makeba, Lindokuhle Nkosi inscribes moments of death, spiritual calling, sorrow and exile born by Makeba, during her singular and passionate life.
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What We Speak About When We Speak About Caster Semenya
in culture
“I have always wanted to be both man and woman, to incorporate the strongest and richest parts of my mother and father within/into me – to share valleys and mountains upon my body the way the earth does in hills and peaks.” Lindokuhle Nkosi looks at black feminism, and the coded language around Caster Semenya
Read MoreOn Humour and Horror and Writing the Hurt
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“People laugh when you fall on your ass. So what’s funny?” - Basquiat
Read MoreA church. A bloodshed. The British. The Boers. A letter from Grahamstown
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What is there to say about this place?
Four times, maybe five, I nearly died and this is how I have come to measure my life here. The first time. The door swinging open. (The afternoons still hot and musty like breath. The evenings, a sharp, chilly inhale). The second time and the screams of metal against metal. The third time. The fourth. The fifth.
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