If we all played our part 25 years ago, I would not have been saying these things, but we didn’t. So here we are. Please start taking accountability. If you want to really do something, commit to doing the following from June 17, 2020: 1. Hire black youth. Stop saying that that the talent out…
Healing through Song’ as Thandiswa Mazwai Plays Her Part in celebration of Africa Month at Constitution Hill’’ By @yolandandala Africa is best known as a continent of Drum and Dance, we heal through music and move in the rhythm of our heartbeats. Brand South Africa and the Department of Sports, Arts and culture hosted an…
WE SIT DOWN WITH 29 YEAR OLD DIGITAL CREATOR MBANGISO MABASO FROM SISANDA IN TSHIMOLOGONG, AND WE TALK IR4, VIRTUAL REALITY, AUGMENTED REALITY AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. HERES A SNEAK PEAK ….
to quote… Rob Siltanen “Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the…
Nix Dlova once again raises the hair goosebumps on her one in a million talent in creative directing black hair craft, this time in a music video for @Sampa the Great and the visuals speak for themselves. Sampa Tempo, known as SAMPA THE GREAT is a Ugandian born Australia based Urban Afro Funk / Hip…
YOU HAVE TILL MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO DESIGN YOUR FINAL AND ENTER THE #KEEEPLANGUAGESALIVE COMPETITION AND STAND A SHARE OF $2000 WORTH OF PRICES 14 October | Entries close (extended deadline)15 October | Finalists announced22 October | One-day-only exhibition in Johannesburg, winners announcedLate November | Posters and T-shirts available for sale online and at partner retail…
The 2019 Afropunk fest looks to be an amazing experience once more. The line up announcement which took place last week 28th June 1979 was an intimate session, which like the private dinner the night before was invite only for a few young cutting edges. This took place at the new AP pop-up venue in…
I learnt a new word on Tue 28th May 2019 and its call ” MISGENDERED ” This was experienced in the midst f topics and opinions that went around and across the wonderfully set table which featured some of Joburg’s finest young and midaged creative entrepreneurs, artists and anthropologists. The venue was just as relevent…
Remember the “Hope” the statue, commemorated to the Black child by @unicef place right next to the Mandela statue in “Mandela Square Sandton? Well statue has now being moved to Constitutional Hill. Standing tall by the Womens jail. Consitution hill tasked Amacreatives to come with a concept of dressing up the statue and making her…
After much speculation and doubts about whether Ms Lauryn Hill would show up in the country for her “MisEducationofLaurynhill Tour”, there were big sighs of relief and much glee as she redeemed her notorious AWOL tendencies with a superb, memorable and powerful performance. The multi-award Grammy performed at the Dome in Joburg on Friday the 1st…
AmaCreatives honoured Courvoisier invitation by attending Anatii’s 26th birthday interactive at Rockets. This was an event to celebrate the journey of the 26 year old Anatii’s career, highlighting all the work that he’s done so far especially the brand collaboration he has signed with Courvoisier, raising the youngsters brand worth to celling. !! We have witnessed…
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There’s something about doing things for the second time, last years first ever Afropunk Johannesburg held at Constitution Hill might have been accompanied by some disappointments with Solange Knowles cancelling nights prior to the event, but surely the idea of partying in the middle of the city that you’d usually be striding going about your…
By popular demand, we bring you #Amareviews Extended video. Journey with us on this very first full video of Amareviews, first of its kind ever. The first episode hosted by 3 of the industry’s experienced entrepreneurs. Here we interrogate, in-depth and honest opinion about the Commercial industry and the business surrounding it. The advertising and…
This by far is a photographer visual orgasm. Shooting New York in Black and White is such a dream come true to any photographer. One is reminded of the first time you were introduced to America from back in the days, whether it was through Santa Barbra or New York times newspapers or Hustler magazine…
A CELEBRATION OF A CONSCIOUS ALTERNATIVE EXPRESSION. I saw Pushat perform i died and resurrected, died and repeat. By far Pushat has had an upper echelon dope complicated genius street flow mixed with flair and panache throughout the years. That’s how we would also describe the entire festival aswell. The behind the scenes that goes…
One quickly sobers up amongst all the excitement and inspiration the land of the free has to offer, phela the dollar rand exchange is not your friend and we feeling the pinch. However that doesn’t take away the super fantastic experience we had on Day 1 in Afropunk’s Atlanta leg. This shit was on fire.…
Categorising Skubalisto’s artistic expression has always presented the conundrum of blurred lines when describing his colourful collection of wall murals which include paintings of the iconic Brenda Fassie and young cricketing upstart, Themba Bavuma. Is it street art or graffiti? The Zimbabwean born Eastern Cape raised artist collaborated with his international contemporaries from across the…
The very first time we saw this piece of animation from Poncho Sekiti, we where lost our marbles, both with the subjective story, and the 2d style used with the entire film. It takes a very simply way of using animation but yet compelling raw visuals. Making the animation more entertaining was the current affairs…