Years after the end of Apartheid South Africa remains racially polarized and socially divided. In this context pilgrimage and travelling rituals serve to help those who often find themselves at the ...

This piece originally appeared as part of Rolling Stone’s annual Hot List, in the July-August issue of the magazine. At Afropunk’s 2019 New Year’s Eve festival in South Africa, DJ Moma was scheduled ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. A fire broke out at the Mt. Zion African ...

Thanks to an incendiary song, racial tensions are running high in South Africa, said Alex Duval Smith in the London Independent. “Kill the Boer,” an apartheid-era anthem that calls for the shooting of ...

Sisanda Nkoala receives funding from the National Research Foundation and has previously been awarded an AW Mellon-UCT Graduate Scholarship in Rhetoric Struggle songs, also known as protest music or ...

Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church is planning to build a new sanctuary and daycare center on the same property as its grade school in South Milwaukee. The new early learning center and church building ...

Explore the journey of De Rose, a talented young artist from Umlazi, Durban, whose soulful music and authentic storytelling ...

In the face of oppression, music has often served as a beacon of hope and resistance. In South Africa, during the dark days of apartheid, struggle songs became more than mere melodies; they evolved ...

Last year we saw a hint of what was to come. This year, however, we’ve had the genre’s promise come to fruition, blossoming to legitimately rival Afrobeats as the most popular sound in Africa. There’s ...

Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church, a prominent African-American church in Greeleyville, S.C., caught fire late Tuesday. It is the eighth black church in the Southern U.S. to burn in 10 ...

Just around 10 million people speak isiZulu, a language out of South Africa. So how did a song in the little-known dialect become a hit with billions of people around the world? The song in question ...

Hip hop has come back in full force this year. In 2021, the genre huffed and puffed in its attempt to blow down the door that stood between it and mainstream relevance as amapinao once again ruled ...