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Jan 18, 2025 | 
timeslive.co.za | Bongani Madondo
Once were warriors More than half a century ago two Americans arrived in Kinshasa to sort out who really was the greatest. Bongani Madondo steps back into the jungle to recall the rumble that was the ‘fight of the century’ 19 January 2025 - 00:00 By Bongani Madondo OCTOBER 2 1974..
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
timeslive.co.za | Bongani Madondo
FOB 08 December 2024 - 00:00 Salman Rushdie has a “thing” for beauty. He is drawn to mystery, to love and — inevitably — to trauma: all shorthand for “magic”. And so am I.
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Nov 16, 2024 | 
worldofinteriors.com | Bongani Madondo
If the world were to collapse into a dark bottomlessness, what memory would you take with you? When husband-and-wife duo John and Funmilayo Abe established the Abi Morocco Photos studio on Aina Street in the Shogunle suburb of Lagos, they may not have had an apocalypse in mind – all the same, they proposed to save the world, in a small way, by recording it, through the art of photographic portraiture.
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Nov 9, 2024 | 
timeslive.co.za | Bongani Madondo
Bongani Madondo's tribute to Quincy Jones Bongani Madondo tracks the genius of Quincy Jones — producer nonpareil, cultural curator supremo and the midwife to the most captivating pop of our time — known simply as Q, who died at 91 on Sunday 10 November 2024 - 00:00 By BONGANI MADONDO Q my elder, it does not help exiting stage left just before the world’s momentary collapse. I am still mad at you. No, scratch that. You were a giant, among khodumodumos with big feet.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
sowetanlive.co.za | Bongani Madondo |Kevin Mohatt
An attendee reacts to early election results at Democratic presidential nominee U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris' election night rally during the 2024 U.S. presidential election, at Howard University, in Washington, U.S., November 5, 2024 Dear America, it's strange, this obsession with the flag. Everywhere, a riot of flags.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
timeslive.co.za | Bongani Madondo
BONGANI MADONDO | Borne in the USAs A lover of America for most of his life, the essayist looks to its literary spirit to pen a ‘Lament to an Imaginary Friend in America’ on the eve of the country’s 2024 elections 05 November 2024 - 22:41 By BONGANI MADONDO Dear America,..
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
allafrica.com | Bongani Madondo
Although the Joy of Jazz spaceship landed and departed Johannesburg a fortnight ago, looking at Vuyo Giba's photographs of Mali's Wassoulou punk-rock dervish left Bongani Madondo still reeling from the magic of it all. Listen to this article 16 min Listen to this article 16 min A week after the 25th anniversary of the Joy of Jazz musical fête whipped audiences into a frenzy in Johannesburg last month, something much calmer was in the offing for me. Or so I thought. How wrong I was.
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Nov 2, 2024 | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Bongani Madondo
MATTERS OF THE ART Although the Joy of Jazz spaceship landed and departed Johannesburg a fortnight ago, looking at Vuyo Giba’s photographs of Mali’s Wassoulou punk-rock dervish left Bongani Madondo still reeling from the magic of it all. A week after the 25th anniversary of the Joy of Jazz musical fête whipped audiences into a frenzy in Johannesburg last month, something much calmer was in the offing for me. Or so I thought. How wrong I was. Don't want to see this?
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Oct 26, 2024 | 
timeslive.co.za | Bongani Madondo
FOB Monster’s Ball: mapping out the life and crimes of Sean ‘P Diddy’ Combs Bongani Madondo maps out the life and crimes of Sean ‘P Diddy’ Combs, the most egotistical fallen American angel since Bill Clinton, Bill Cosby and OJ Simpson 27 October 2024 - 00:00 By BONGANI MADONDO “If this Midnight Summer’s Dream Party invitation wasn’t enough to strike terror into any woman’s heart, the warning in small print beneath — filming crews will be present — surely would have been.
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Sep 28, 2024 | 
timeslive.co.za | Bongani Madondo
FOB 29 September 2024 - 00:00 Everyone loves the swing-time allure of jazz, yet many are intimidated by its self- perpetuated mythologies and aura of connoisseurship. Siphiwe Mhlambi should not be its star visual chronicler right now. He’s too ubiquitous, too “fly”, too accessible. Yet therein lies his genius. One hopes that those with eyes to see and not just look might have espied Mhlambi’s ubiquitous jazz photography by now.
