Blogs

On 6 May 2015, the House of Prayer for All Nations Choir performed the Uniti Hymn, composed by WiSER composer-in-residence Neo Muyanga, and based on the preamble to the national planning commission written by poets Njabulo Ndebele and Antjie Krog. The concert premier of the hymn was recorded live to form part of an art installation at the African union headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, set to open in 2015.
 

The Adler Museum of Medicine at the Wits Medical School hosts a talk by Prof Tony Cantrell on 'Asbestos: Miracle Fibre - Serial Killer' on 18 May, 13:00-14:00. All welcome.

Wits University Press will publish an updated edition of Achille Mbembe's On the Postcolony, with a foreword by Professor of African Literature Isabel Hofmeyr and a preface by the author, this month.

The text of Achille Mbembe's recent lecture 'Decolonizing Knowledge and the Question of the Archive.'

Achille Mbembe in conversation with the #RhodesMustFall movement at the University of Cape Town: part one and part two.

Achille Mbembe and Sarah Nuttall speak at Stellenbosch University's Indexing the Human project.

The Daily Maverick interviews Achille Mbembe on xenophobic violence.

WiSER writing fellow Christa Kuljian describes her family's experience of the Armenian genocide, in the Mail and Guardian.

Now showing at The Bioscope, Johannesburg - Nelson Mandela: The Myth and Me, a film by Khalo Matabane with an original score by WiSER composer-in-residence, Neo Muyanga. For more information, see here: http://www.thebioscope.co.za/2015/03/23/nelson-mandela-the-myth-and-me-s...