Ownership, Dialogue and Free-form
Laying claim to the ethereal at the Cape Town International Jazz Festival Statues are just lumps of stone for pigeons to shit on, right? Not quite. As theorists from Ferdinand de Saussure and Julia Kristeva to Roland Barthes and Stuart Hall have made clear, they are also signs, texts and narratives. This year’s Cape […]
#RhodesSoWhite: An Insight
There has been much backlash against the social media campaign #RhodesSoWhite, which I started on a thread on the Rhodes SRC Facebook page. The rationale behind the social campaign was to expose the collective mental violence faced by black students at Rhodes University on all levels. The backlash this campaign has generated exposes not […]
The Day of the Jekyll
To resolve the situation at the University of Cape Town that was sparked by the statue of Cecil John Rhodes, I believe we must demand the reinstatement of former vice chancellor, Dr Max Price. On his installation in 2008, Price called for an Afropolitan university, encompassing the globe without short-changing the continent. Six years later, in […]
Something in the Youthful Air?
If you’re up early in Dakar and decide to take a walk along the shorefront before the day gets going you may see fishermen setting out on a raft cobbled together from the detritus of the city. If you look a little closer you may see, on the rocks, not far beneath the surface […]