In our latest issue, historian Robert Trent Vinson looks at the long history of ties between Black South Africa and African Americans, revealing sprawling, often complex relationships shared by two peoples seeking mutuality with each other. Read it here: moyamagazine.com/content/the-in…

I guest edited the new online issue of Moya Magazine. The theme is the deep connections between Black people in South Africa and the United States. Contributions by historian Robert Trent Vinson, art historian Drew Thompson Drew Thompson, and Khaya Mtshali 🇵🇸 who's your daddy montreal ? on

Art remains central to Moya’s exploration of Black life across geographic and temporal boundaries. Our current issue features artists exploring Black urban life, womanhood, collective memory and identity. See more: moyamagazine.com/content/kaleid… *Image: The Show by Tshepiso Moropa

i have an essay on trevor noah up on Moya Magazine 🙌🏽 very grateful to Sean Jacobs who commissioned this piece and to TO Molefe who provided edits 🙏🏽 moyamagazine.com/content/trevor…

Shameless self-promotion: I have a piece - in the latest issue of "The Blizzard," The Blizzard, the UK football literary magazine - on how Benni McCarthy was shaped by the gangster leagues of Cape Town. You can buy it here: theblizzard.co.uk/shop/issues/is…

In intricate paintings, rich with narrative, Kameron Walker seeks to represent the connections in Black urban life. See more: moyamagazine.com/content/presid…

In the 1970s, Caroline Hunter and Ken Williams, employees at the Polaroid Corporation, learned of the company's involvement in apartheid South Africa. Outraged, they formed the Polaroid Revolutionary Workers Movement. @Maputoite looks at their impact: moyamagazine.com/content/the-la…

Artist Tshepiso Moropa strives to breathe new life into forgotten narratives and create a visual symphony that resounds with the depths of the Black experience. See more at moyamagazine.com/content/the-sh…

On one of three @RaceBeyondPod episodes featured in our latest issue, futurists Geci Karuri-Sebina and Rasheedah Phillips break down practices for today to imagine into futures of race and Blackness. Click to listen: moyamagazine.com/content/rbb-se…

.Moya Magazine features a retelling of the history and work of the groundbreaking Polaroid Revolutionary Workers' Movement, by art historian Drew Thompson. Read the piece in full: moyamagazine.com/content/the-la…

Tanzeem Razak and Nabeel Essa use bamboo curtains to create ghostly renderings of Malay Camp, a community that was forcibly removed by the state in apartheid South Africa. "[This work seeks] to reclaim agency through memory,” they write. Learn more: moyamagazine.com/content/drawin….

In Ukubuyiswa Nokukhanya, artist Siviwe James explores the feelings, encounters and memories that are a part of the larger Xhosa experience and way of sensing the world. See more: moyamagazine.com/content/ukubuy…

At moyamagazine.com, culture writer @KublaKhanya Mtshali breaks down the evolution of Trevor Noah’s work from his early career on the South African comedy circuit to his current status as global superstar. Read it in full: moyamagazine.com/content/trevor…

On Race Beyond Borders, new media artist Kumbirai Makumbe reflects on the multiplicity of Black experiences and how the digital sphere provides new territory on which to map the multiverse of Blackness. Click to listen: moyamagazine.com/content/the-my…

.Zani's mixed-media artworks speak to what the artist calls “a longing for ancestral connection and a return to cultural practices needed for the spiritual enrichment of Black souls.” See more: moyamagazine.com/content/my-city

In “Black of My Flesh” artist Lebo Thoka casts the figure of Mary as a Black woman, subverting Eurocentric ideals and exploring Black womanhood on its own terms. See more: moyamagazine.com/content/black-…

In a conversation with historian Drew Thompson (Drew Thompson), co-founder of the historic Polaroid Revolutionary Workers Movement Caroline Hunter remembers the strategies in their anti-apartheid organising. Read about the organisation’s work and impact: moyamagazine.com/content/the-la…

On Race Beyond Borders, journalist Morgan Jerkins unpacks the ways that Black identity is constructed online, including how it can be coopted. Listen here: moyamagazine.com/content/masque….

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