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A hip-hopera in Cape Town: The aesthetics, and politics of performing ‘Afrikaaps’
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)
This paper looks into the aesthetics and politics of the ‘hip-hopera’ Afrikaaps. Afrikaaps was produced in 2010 by a group of musicians and spoken-word artists from Cape Town and the rural Western Cape Province of South ...
Un/making difference through performance and mediation in contemporary Africa
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)
This special issue of the Journal of African Cultural Studies grew out of a panel we organized at the European Conference on African Studies in Lisbon in June 2013. Our starting point was the observation of a massive revival ...
“Youth speaking truth to power”: Intersectional decolonial activism in Namibia
(Springer, 2022)
This article portrays a recent movement towards intersectional activism in urban
Namibia. Since 2020, young Namibian activists have come together in campaigns
to decolonize public space through removing colonial monuments ...