Born 1985 in Zimbabwe, Richard is a full time professional painter who lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa. He studied under the mentorship of renowned painter Helen Lieros and Greg Shaw at Gallery Delta in Harare. Known for his original modernist paintings full of social commentary on various issue in Africa, he has participated in various major […]
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Wallen Mapondera is a full time artist who lives and works in Zimbabwe, he have exhibited his work in some parts of Europe and America and has collections in Spain and Germany. Wallen aims, through socio-political symbolism of animals and their disposition, to explore human form of power structures in which power rests with a
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Masande Ntshanga is the winner of the 2013 pen International New Voices Award. He was born in East London in 1986 and graduated with a degree in Film and Media and an Honours degree in English Studies from UCT, where he became a creative writing fellow, completing his Masters in Creative Writing under the Mellon
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Based on funding constraints, the Africa Centre has regretfully had to cancel Cape Town’s Infecting the City Festival for 2016. Every year since its inception in 2008, audience attendance, artist participation and media attention has increased, as the Festival emerged into one of Cape Town’s signature artistic events. Its audience numbers peaked in 2015 with
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Congratulations to the 2015 Artists In Residency (AIR) finalists! Since 2011, our AIR programme has provided artists across discipline (visual arts; literary arts; performing arts; music & film) with the opportunity to participate in residency programmes throughout the world. This is a direct response to the challenges many African artists confront related to both getting
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