CityLife Arts is a specialist arts publication that focuses on visual art, theatre and literature.
By Edward Tsumele, CITYLIFE/ARTS Editor Since the news broke out last week that Nigerian British actress Cynthia Erivo, instead of a South African actress, has snatched the coveted role of … Read More
Tinashe Mushakavanhu, Harvard University When the announcement of Chimamanda Adichie Ngozi’s latest novel Dream Count was made, it was regarded as a major event in African literature. The internationally celebrated … Read More
Kylie Thomas, NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies South African visual activist Zanele Muholi’s celebrated work centres the lives and experiences of Black lesbians and trans people. For … Read More
Joel Carnevale, Florida International University Generative artificial intelligence has become a routine part of creative work. Novelists are using it to develop plots. Musicians are experimenting with AI-generated sounds. Filmmakers … Read More
Derek Attridge, University of York Zoë Wicomb, a celebrated South African-Scottish writer and scholar, has died. All my memories of her crystallise around her voice: it brought a small piece … Read More
Mariapaola McGurk, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau Johannesburg is weathering a storm of crises. Nowhere is its complex tangle of challenges more visible than in the inner city, where … Read More
Darius Brubeck, University of KwaZulu-Natal Lex Futshane, the South African bass player in the 1992 student band NU Jazz Connection, was the first to tell me that the great South … Read More
