CityLife Arts is a specialist arts publication that focuses on visual art, theatre and literature.
Tsitsi Dangarembga has made a name for herself as a writer, filmmaker and activist in Zimbabwe. She gained international acclaim with her debut novel Nervous Conditions (1988), which became the first published English novel by … Read More
In a letter to James AH Murray in 1879, the writer ME Lewes wrote: “I wish always to be quoted as George Eliot”. She perhaps would not have been pleased … Read More
There is a general perception that there is no film industry to talk about in Zimbabwe. This argument is mostly based on comparisons with other well-resourced film economies, such … Read More
By Joanne Clarke, Elizabeth Edna Wangui, Grace W.Ngaruiya and Nick Brooks Very few academics or policy makers are talking about the impact of climate change on heritage. Yet heritage is … Read More
My instinctive reaction on first laying my eyes on Mcebisi Ndletyana’s new book, Anatomy of the ANC in Power: Insights from Port Elizabeth, 1990-2019, was to wonder if the African … Read More
By Ainehi Edoro and Bhakti Shringarpure In the Global North, Africa never inspires radically new terms of representation. It always presents itself as an entity grounded in an anthropological reality. … Read More
By Nina G. Jablonski and George Chaplin Race-thinking has been discredited for decades. But it is still with us . Yet race is a historical contingency, not a state of … Read More
