Wednesday, 25 May 2022
Rofhiwa Maneta is a freelance arts and culture journalist. In addition to New Frame, he has written for City Press, the Mail & Guardian, the Sunday Times, Vice and The Fader.
The rapper confronts isolation and rebirth on his latest album Sick!, tying up neatly with his career-long theme of fatherhood.
Through a digital essay game that involves texts from Frantz Fanon, Octavia E Butler, Dambudzo Marechera and other radical theorists, the artist reimagines the way we read, learn and ‘write’.
Using sparse prose and his signature sounds, the musician’s third project explores the transformative journey of working through grief to get to a place of healing.
The new artist’s evocative debut offering – crafted in university dorm rooms and recently gone platinum – has led to a contract with Columbia Records.
Drawing on hip-hop, electronica and dance in a small but impressive discography, the Joburg musician continues to make waves with their new release, Elementality.
Bongeziwe Mabandla’s new album explores a love story, from start to end, alongside parallel questions of memory.
The new album by Shabaka and The Ancestors is a meditation on history, and asks its listeners to imagine new modes of being.
K Sello Duiker started a trend when he made Cape Town the setting for his award-winning book about falling apart. Rofhiwa Maneta looks at two other novels on the same theme.