Richard Hunt Spiral Odyssey About:Born in Chicago in 1935, world-renowned sculptor Richard Hunt has singularly made the largest contribution to public art in the United States; over 150 public sculpture commissions grace prominent locations in 24 states and Washington, D.C. Hunt has held over 150 solo exhibitions and is represented in more than 100 public museums across the globe, from California to Maine, Detroit to Birmingham, and Vienna to Jerusalem.A descendant of slaves brought to this country through the port of Savannah, Georgia, Hunt grew up on the South Side of Chicago, first in…
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A multidisciplinary, multi-site programme in Gqeberha & Bhisho, Durban, Cape Town and Johannesburg, which allows for a disruption of the performativity of critical debate that often skirts dissensus and discomfort in the dissection of power. In 2018, the Goethe-Institut South Africa’s Cultural Programmes Department initiated Power Talks, a project aimed at unpacking the nuanced forms, dynamics and functions of power, to better understand the relationship between European cultural institutions and the various African societies in which they are active. A collaboration between the Goethe-Institut South Africa and the University of Cape Town’s African Centre for Cities, Power Talks seeks to…
• Lagos FA boss launches campaign todayWhat appears a major hurdle for candidates from the southern zone of the country vying for the presidency in the elective congress of the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF), may be afoot, if a declaration by the northern caucus of the federation is anything to go by. The election to usher in a new president and other executive committee members for a four-year tenure will hold in Benin City, Edo State on September 30. Over 11 contestants are in the race to take over the seat currently occupied by Amaju Pinnick. They include first vice…
Dwyane Wade is a retired NBA player who at the peak of his career won three NBA championships. Growing up, Wade started doing drugs and to avoid gang life and drugs, he took to basketball throughout his high school years at Harold L. Richards High School in Oak Law. He continued to Marquette University, where he led the team to their first Final Four appearance in 25 years. He was drafted by the Miami Heat in 2003 and chose to leave Marquette during his senior year after an exception was made for him because universities usually require that a student…
Kimathi Mafafo (b. 1984) Cradlesome, 2021 About:She is a multidisciplinary artist whose practise ranges from embroidery and oil painting to installation. Mafafo obtained a National Diploma in Fine Arts from the College of Cape Town in 2007 and a National Diploma in Film and Video from the Cape Peninsula University of Technology in 2016. Born in the semi-arid Kimberley in the Northern Cape of South Africa, Mafafo questions historical stereotypes around gender inequality in Africa. She primarily focuses on celebrating the black female and abstracted forms placing them in often verdant imaging, characterised by…
The Wallabies may have comfortably accounted for the Springboks by seven points on Saturday afternoon, but star scrumhalf Nic White is under fire for an act one prominent ex-player said ‘killed a little piece of rugby’s soul’. White was involved in an incident with Springboks counterpart Faf de Klerk late in the game, when the latter attempted to slap the ball out his hands during a scrum just metres out from South Africa’s try line.De Klerk missed the ball and instead accidentally grazed White’s face, with the Aussie then reeling backwards and clutching at air after the referee didn’t initially blow…
The SKD had artificial turf laid and bucket seats installed as part of its recent renovationsLiberia’s President George Weah has allowed Sierra Leone and its club sides to use the Samuel Kanyon Doe (SKD) sports complex free of charge.Sierra Leone will play a ‘home’ African Nations Championship (CHAN) qualifier against Mali at the ground in Paynesville on Saturday, while Bo Rangers and Kallon FC will stage continental matches there next month.The West African country is not approved by the Confederation of African Football to host matches while its national stadium in Freetown undergoes renovation.”We have received the President’s mandate, which…
By Roxanne ReidIf you care about wild animals and conservation in South Africa, you’ll want to read the book Rhino War: A General’s Bold Strategy in the Kruger National Park (Pan Macmillan 2022). It gives an insider’s view of what the struggle to prevent poaching of rhinos in Kruger has been like. Regular visitors to Kruger will recognise many of the places referred to, to add to their sense of ‘being there’. In 2012, the job of creating a new and co-ordinated anti-poaching strategy for Kruger landed in the lap of 60-year-old retired South African army general, Johan Jooste. Back then,…
Last month, the president of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s senate, Modeste Bahati Lukwebo, called for the UN peacekeepers in the country to pack their bags after more than 20 years on the ground. His fiery words led some to suggest that the violent anti-UN protests that kicked off ten days later in major cities across eastern parts of the country were the work of high-ranking politicians. That is a problematic simplification: Depicting protesters as manipulated or paid for by politicians denies their agency and ignores the profound frustration many Congolese have with the UN peacekeeping mission…
ACC PhD candidate Alicia Fortuin, reflects on her attendance of the UTA-Do African Cities Workshop for Early Career Researchers, hosted in Nairobi, Kenya from 23-27 May 2022. The first UTA-Do African Cities workshop was an emerging southern urban scholar/researcher’s dream. Hosted by the African Centre for Cities and the British Institute in Eastern Africa in Kilileshwa, Nairobi, a true reflection of a vibrant and energetic African City. It offered emerging scholars, early career practitioners and artists the opportunity to truly see themselves as thinkers and writers of and in their own cities. To begin with, I now understand why so…