Fezokuhle Mthonti

Nov 7, 2024 | mg.co.za | Fezokuhle Mthonti

On 2 June, four days after democratic South Africa’s seventh general election, publicist Maria McCloy captured Thandiswa Mazwai’s performance at the IEC gala dinner on her phone. The footage is an intimate portal into a nationally charged conversation. Through this pixelated technology, we hear the chords of Mazwai’s song titled emini from her fourth studio album Sankofa. The percussive stomps of the drum call the militants to action.

Oct 30, 2024 | znetwork.org | Fezokuhle Mthonti

This August, during Z’s fundraising drive, we are asking you to take action with us. It’s time to get up and stand up, not just in opposition to all the horrors unfolding around us, but to stand up FOR something in unity and strength. To provide a forum and tools for diverse activists to propose, not just oppose, has been Z’s mission for nearly 50 years.

Oct 30, 2024 | znetwork.org | Fezokuhle Mthonti

The debacle around Ta-Nehisi Coates’ latest book shows us that no matter a writer’s individual acclaim, the liberal media establishment will never tolerate anything that fundamentally challenges its racist edifice. In Michael Neocosmos’ excellent book, Thinking Freedom in Africa: Toward a Theory of Emancipatory Politics, the author presents three expressions of universal humanism across time and space. The first is articulated in 1222 in the Mande Charter.

Oct 21, 2024 | theelephant.info | Fezokuhle Mthonti

Log into your member account to listen to this article. Not a member? Join the herd. In Michael Neocosmos’ excellent book, Thinking Freedom in Africa: Toward a Theory of Emancipatory Politics, the author presents three expressions of universal humanism across time and space. The first is articulated in 1222 in the Mande Charter. The expression is simple: toute vie (humaine) est une vie,(every human life is a life).

Oct 10, 2024 | mg.co.za | Fezokuhle Mthonti

Siyabonga Mthembu is no ordinary vocalist. His capacity to invoke the worlds of the seen and unseen through a deliberately meditative pace and his ability to hasten us into urgency with exploding vocal riffs and repetitive plosives situate him well beyond the confinements of genre. Mthembu invites us into prayer, action and revolution through his urgent prose and lyricism. Each note situates us in new worlds, new dimensions and new conceptions of our shared oral histories.