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The Mellon 30th anniversary seminar programme “Southern Epistemologies: Thinking Beyond the Abyss for a Transformative Curriculum” and the Arts of Africa and Global Souths research programme warmly invite you to Five Bhobh Conversations with Zeitz MOCAA Curator Tandazani Dhlakama and Artist Richard Mudariki, Thursday 23 May 2019

A new and exciting issue of the African Arts journal is out, featuring Stacey Gillian Abe's photograph on the front cover. Congratulations to everyone involved! Part of this issue grew out of the Kampala publishing workshop, which was a collaboration between Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 and Makerere 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网.

The Inter-Regional Conference/Workshop was organized by the National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIHSS) for the Doctoral students of the universities in the Eastern and Western Capes of South Africa.

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You are warmly invited to the exhibition Black Mountain by Stary Mwaba. Stary Mwaba is a MFA candidate in the Fine Art Department and a member of the Arts of Africa and Global Souths research programme.

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You are warmly invited to the exhibition "framed in colonial lenses" by the Harare-based artist Moffat Takadiwa. Takadiwa was a RAW Fellow in the Arts of Africa and Global Souths research programme in the Fine Art Department from July to August 2018.

Arts Lounge Africa, Grahamstown, South Africa, 30 June 2018 – 4 July 2018. ARTS LOUNGE AFRICA is a platform for live art, conversations with artists, and exhibitions that is activated during the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown, South Africa. It is organized and hosted by the Arts of Africa and Global Souths research team at Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网.

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Emergency Exit, is a solo exhibition by Wallen Mapondera a multi-disciplinary artist who creates work through painting, drawing, sculpture and installation. Mapondera is best known for his complex wall sculptures, which create richly textured abstract surfaces out of textiles and cardboard and as well as for his paintings whereby he interrogates the human-animal relationship as a metaphor for political power within hierarchies.

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The Arts of Africa and Global Souths research programme warmly invites you to a special Africa Day collaborative seminar on Friday the 25th of May, presented by our two Residencies for Artists and Writers (RAW) Fellows, Prof Adepeju Layiwola and Dr Patrick Oloko.

Professor Peju Layiwola, Head, Department of Creative Arts, and Dr. Patrick Oloko, a senior lecturer in the Department of English, have been awarded the Rhodes Artist and Writer (RAW) Residency Fellowship Programme for 2018.

The Arts of Africa and Global Souths research group warmly invites you to a talk by Dr Eyitayo Ijisakin

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Fine Art master’s student Wallen Mapondera is on track in his meteoric rise to international recognition in the art circles.

Ntaba kaNdoda has long been considered by amaXhosa as a place of sanctuary, a revered place that became a symbol of the former Ciskei.

This exhibition explores the erasure of women’s narratives from Zambian history and collective memory.

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From the 4th to the 8th of July 2017, seventeen scholars from Uganda, Nigeria and South Africa met in Kampala to discuss publishing in the field of the visual and performing arts of Africa.

You are warmly invited to the opening of Bright Ackwerh’s exhibition “Where de cho dey?” curated by Ruth Simbao.