Exploring Art and Culture

Nov 7, 2019
8 min read

Reviews

Album Review

good kid, M.A.A.d city: A Look Back at Kendrick Lamar's second studio album

good kid, M.A.A.d city is a raw, hopeful, ride into...

Portia Zuba Uwase

Nov 7, 2019
8 min read

music

Illmatic, a hiphop classic

This album is iconic, better yet legendary, akin to mythological...

Bayingana

Sep 25, 2018
10 min read

Poetry

Tiny Steps to Healing

Gloria spends a large chunk of her book encouraging us...

Portia Uwase Zuba

Jul 31, 2018
3 min read

music

Outside — Burna Boy's remarkable third studio album

Burna Boy's Outside is sometimes playful, sometimes serious, other times...

Mutsinzi

Jun 9, 2018
2 min read

music

Blur EP

Blur, a concept piece by Mucyo, tells the relatable story...

Ines Makuza

Jun 8, 2018
6 min read

Short Film

Kindil El Bahr

Kindil El Bahr is a 40-minute visual representation of Khaled...

Portia Zuba

Feb 13, 2018
9 min read

Stories

Ideas, Meaning, Work

To make laziness work for you, put some effort into it

There’s a contradiction here. We are predisposed to laziness and dream of being idle; at...

Neel Burton

Oct 14, 2019
7 min read

Ideas, Creativity, Stories

Solitude Finally

Finding solitude gives us new perspective, security in our own company and self, and helps...

Ines Makuza

Jul 15, 2019
4 min read

Ideas, Literature, Stories

How translation obscured the music and wordplay of the Bible

What you repeatedly have to do in this kind of labour is to sacrifice one...

Robert Alter

Mar 11, 2019
6 min read

Ideas, Cognition

How the body and mind talk to one another to understand the world

The brain represents, integrates and prioritises interoceptive information from the internal body.

Sarah Garfinkel

Mar 11, 2019
6 min read

Ideas, Writing

At the end of the day, think outside the box about clichés

Perhaps we can begin to think differently about the cliché if we consider a newer...

Nana Ariel

Mar 11, 2019
7 min read

Ideas, Heritage, History

African art in Western museums: it’s patrimony not heritage

The objects taken from West Africa during the colonial period indexed many things, most of...

Charlotte Joy

Mar 11, 2019
5 min read

Poetry

Yin and Yang

"Earth falls from beneath their feet"

By Nancy Umutoni

Roaming

"Sunshine is still sweet when you miss it on a winter's day"

By Ines Makuza & Luther Osier

Tranquility

"See the line where the sky meets the sea?"

By Ines Makuza

Unmolded Clay

"Take it or leave it I won't change a thing about myself to appease you."

By Daniella Kamugisha

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