Hlonipha Mokoena interviews Achille Mbembe
Hlonipha interviews Achille on winning the Holberg prize, on their backgrounds, institutions and intellectual obsessions.
14 Mar 20241h 4min
Bessie Head’s Absorbent Literature
In this week’s episode, Anneke Rautenbach discusses how, when the writer Bessie Head escaped apartheid South Africa and settled in the rural village of Serowe, Botswana, she remained haunted by the vi...
17 Nov 202216min
Cheikh BA: Riverine Landscapes in Senegal
In this episode of The WiSER Podcast, Cheikh BA discusses the Senegal River as an intense node of knowledge making. He discusses how those who live alongside it observe, name and think about its flows...
6 Sep 20229min
The new nuclear age
In this week’s episode, Simon van Schalkwyk discusses our new nuclear age, the re-emergence of a long latent Cold War atavism, including the politics of containment and psycho-warfare. Online ‘nuke ma...
1 Aug 202217min
Bridging the Bay: Maputo-Katembe
In this episode, Caio Simões de Araújo discusses the politics of infrastructure in Southern Africa, taking as an entry point the Maputo-Katembe bridge, inaugurated in 2018. Araújo argues that the brid...
21 Jul 202214min
Vampires: Pandemics & Politics
In this episode, Timothy Wright discusses the graphic novel Rebirth (2012), which imagines a node of vampire culture in the striated and gritty space of Johannesburg. He reads the book’s terminally il...
27 Jun 202216min
Two Treasons, Two States, One Family
In Episode One of Season Five of The WiSER Podcast, the Reverend Frank Chikane and his son Regotsofetse Chikane, recollect and discuss the moment – separated by 30 years – they were each arrested for ...
9 Jun 202237min
The Art of Meleko Mokgosi Part 2
In this week’s episode, we present Part Two of our mini-series on the work of Botswanan artist Meleko Mokgosi by Hlonipha Mokoena of WISER. Last week, Mokoena offered an analysis of Mokgosi’s painting...
4 Nov 20211h 1min
