Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA) recently announced the opening of two new exhibitions titled Past Disquiet and Seismography of Struggle: Towards a Global History of Critical and Cultural Journals. Accompanying the opening is a symposium titled The Poetics and Politics of Archival Practice and a book
Sindiwe Magona – who turns 80 this year – is a celebrated South African writer, storyteller, speaker and activist. In 2022 Magona, once a domestic worker, received her PhD in creative writing. Best known for her novels, autobiographies, short stories, poems and children’s books, she’s
In a bold affirmation to its on-going commitment to education, Strauss & Co recently announced the launch of a comprehensive new book and exhibition devoted to the sculptors Sydney Kumalo and Ezrom Legae. Published by Strauss & Co on a not-for-profit basis, The Sculptures of
The stage production of Damon Galgut’s Booker Prize-winning novel, The Promise, will have its world premiere in Cape Town this September. The production is directed by internationally acclaimed, multiple award-winning director Sylvaine Strike, and will be presented from 14 September to 6 October at The
Cities are often described as having a particular character, atmosphere, or identity of their own. In this way, they become the perfect sites for performance, play, and storytelling. The site-specific performance Breaths of Joburg, which took place outside of The Windybrow Art Centre recently, is
Wake Up, This is Joburg is a collaboration between photographer Mark Lewis and urban planner and writer Tanya Zack. Striking images and beautiful texts follow 10 stories the team discovered in urban Johannesburg, South Africa. Each chapter captures many overlapping stories that come together around
Kevin Atkinson – Art and Life is the first comprehensive monograph devoted to the legendary Cape Town artist, educator, cultural activist, philosopher and shaman Kevin Atkinson (1939-2007). Emerging in the 1960s, Atkinson gained a formidable reputation as a daring and forward-thinking artist fully engaged by
In Zimbabwean author NoViolet Bulawayo’s new novel Glory – longlisted for the Booker Prize 2022 – animals take on human characteristics. Through this she explores what happens when an authoritarian regime implodes, using characters who are horses, pigs, dogs, cows, cats, chickens, crocodiles, birds and
The towering South African poet, activist and humanitarian Donato Francesco Mattera passed away on 18 July at the age of 86. What he represented to South Africa is far larger than his contribution to literature. During the online memorial service for Mattera, filmmaker and lecturer
The South African novelist K. Sello Duiker would have turned 48 on 13 April 2022. Since 2005, when he took his own life at the age of 30, his importance to the body of African literature has become even more evident. His works have been
Following their hugely successful Artbook Workshops in the Eastern Cape last year, the Imbali Visual Literacy Project kicks off 2022 by bringing workshops to the Western Cape. On 19 February, the organisation hosted an inspiring Imbali Artbook workshop for teachers in the Eden District of
With the launch of the Living Heritage project, Creative Feel is actively working to document and archive African artists working in the fields of visual art, performance, literature, music and design who are using living heritage within their creative practice. Our aim is to both
With a return to a physical fair for this year’s Investec Cape Town Art Fair (ICTAF), there’s much to see and do from 18 – 20 February 2022. While the fair’s home base is the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC), events and exhibitions are
In 2019 at the Abantu Book Festival in Soweto, South African writer and artist Zakes Mda was celebrating the publication of his final novel, The Zulus of New York, when he made a surprise announcement. He had changed his mind and was writing another novel.
Kenya’s most celebrated author Ngugi wa Thiong’o marked his 84th birthday on 5 January 2022. Having published his first novel – Weep Not Child – in 1964, Ngugi remains active in writing and teaching. His latest creative effort is Kenda Muiyuru (The Perfect Nine), a
Zakes Mda is one of South Africa’s best-loved novelists – though he is also a celebrated playwright, children’s book author and an increasingly visible painter. His latest novel, Wayfarers’ Hymns, is at once full of drama and mirth, set in Lesotho and playing out in
The Nobel Prize in Literature, considered the pinnacle of achievement for creative writers, has been awarded 114 times to 118 Nobel Prize laureates between 1901 and 2021. This year it went to novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah, who was born in Zanzibar, the first Tanzanian writer to
South African writer Damon Galgut’s The Promise has been announced as winner of the 2021 Booker Prize for Fiction. The announcement made by Maya Jasanoff, chair of the 2021 judges, was the culmination of a 45-minute ceremony held in partnership with the BBC at Broadcasting
Damon Galgut’s use of irony in his Booker Prize-nominated new novel, The Promise, toes the line between the ironic and the allegorical in masterful fashion. For three years I’ve forsworn South African literature. I realise that might make me a badly read reviewer, but after
My Early Years, Scatterling of Africa, tells the story of Johnny Clegg’s formative years, how his passage to fame started, as he himself wrote it and as he wanted it to be told. It is his innermost discovery of Zulu culture, sharing his insights and his
Damon Galgut’s latest novel, The Promise, has been shortlisted for one of the world’s most prestigious literary prizes, the Booker Prize. The announcement was made during an online event on Tuesday evening. Other shortlisted authors are debut novelist Patricia Lockwood with No One Is Talking
The Booker Prize longlist nominee homes in on the violence of colonialism and its afterlives in An Island, a novel about a lone lighthouse keeper confronted by a refugee who washes ashore. The novelist Karen Jennings had just returned from walking the dogs at 7am
In the February / March 2020 issue of Creative Feel, we review Borderline, Find Me, and Paper Tiger, three books that will have you sitting on the edge of your seat. Borderline | By Marita van der Vyver | Publisher: Penguin Random House SA | ISBN:
The Dirty Dozen | By Lynda La Plante | Publisher: Zaffre, an imprint of Bonnier Books UK | ISBN: 9781499862119The fifth book in the Tennison series, following Jane Tennison in the early years of her policing career. April 1980 and Jane is the first female detective
Explore! Awesome South African Artists | By Cobi Labuscagne and illustrated by Lauren Mulligan | Publisher: Jacana Media | ISBN: 9781431429127‘I hope that Explore! Awesome South African Artists introduces you to some of our great artists working today so you can go on and learn
Liar | By Ayelet Gundar-Goshen | Publisher: Pushkin Press | ISBN: 9781782273844Nofar is just an average teenage girl. So average, she’s almost invisible. Serving customers ice cream all summer long, she is desperate for some kind of escape. Then one afternoon, a terrible lie slips