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Doreen Gaura

Fire Dance

Thing is, this was not a onetime occurrence. This is what I do and it is on this that my street cred (which really doesn’t amount to much to be honest) in hippie central, Obz, has been founded but although this was the case in Cape Town, it’s not so in Zimbabwe. This is because there is just so much pressure not to. What with respectability politics and all. Heaven forbid a thirty year old gogo-stina like myself be seen lahlaring her mlenze (ngoba phela mina ngiyawuphosa umlenze wam’ shem) as though she were some “ratchet” 20 year old right? Well no, not really.

Keywords: 
Doreen Gaura
dance
Manu Debango
bra Hugh Masekela
Brenda Fassie
Dobet Gnahore
Aster Aweke
Fela Kuti

The Exoticisation and Otherisation of the Afrikan by the Afrikan

In the last decade or so we have seen an increase in Afrikan visibility and participation in the marketing of the continent as a commercial and creative hub. We have embarked on re - branding the image of Afrika i.e. moving away from the traditional Afro-pessimistic narrative to a more positive vibrant one as well as reclaiming the marketing rights of our own continent and cultures. This paradigm shift has reaped benefits for more and more, mostly young, Afrikan designers, artists and entrepreneurs both on the continent and in the Afrikan diaspora.

Keywords: 
Afropolitanism
Allan Quartermain
South Afrika
Oxford Companion
Zimbabwean
Anglophiles
Christian
Zimbabwe
Doreen Gaura
exoticisation of Afrikan

Coloured Rays of Grey

I am complicatedly simple, religiously unorthodox, regimentally wild, fanatically balanced, reverently blasphemous, blissfully rowdy and devotedly noncommittal. Put simply, I epitomize ambiguity and diversity.” In my world, not only do I see the grey areas, I also see the entire colour spectrum complete with various shades, hues and tones.

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