Inqindi

The Fingo Festival Revolution in South Africa’s Eastern Cape

Ts'eliso Monaheng, Africa is a Country

“You’ve got a car? It’s less than two hours from here” says a Rasta woman I’ve known for a total of ten minutes. In that time, she’s managed to convince me to travel with her to a town nearby (or was it me trying to convince her?) on a hunt for medicinal herbs.

The ganja in these here parts is strong. Mango, I’m told, is this season’s flavour. It can be found in Port Alfred, the town in question.

I didn’t have a car in any case and had to forego the offer, unfortunately.

Robert van Niekerk speaks on cultural boycott at the National Arts Festival

Cedric Nunn's 'Call and Response'

There is another video, featuring pictures from this exhibition, online at Cue.

Shooting the festival in the back

by Niren Tolsi, The Mail & Guardian

As the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown reaches its final weekend there is a growing urge to do a Meursault-on-the-Beach and pop a cap in its ass.

And then pump four more into its dead body.

The relentless cycle of watching shows, scrambling from lectures to interviews to shack settlements like Ethembeni which were flooded after an early morning deluge on Tuesday, and then, writing, constantly, leaving one bereft.

Thinking Africa Frantz Fanon Film Festival, Grahamstown: 7 - 10 July 2011

Four films on or relating to Fanon will be screened as part of the Frantz Fanon Fifty Years On conference and in partnership with the 2011 National Arts Festival in Grahamstown.

7 July: Frantz Fanon: his life, his struggle, his work, Cheikh Djemai, 2001

8 July: Frantz Fanon: Black Skin White Masks, Isaac Julien, 1996

9 July: The Battle of Algiers, Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966

10 July: Driving with Fanon, Kwena Mokwena, 2010