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MAVERICK CITIZEN: RASTAMAN VIBRATIONS: Exodus: Three reggae greats died in the past three weeks — two from Jamaica and one from Zimbabwe
Soul Jah Love performing on African Storm sound in Newtown Johannesburg 2015. (Photo: Sherilea Gaspar / GAS Photographic) Bunny Wailer, U-Roy and Soul Jah Love spoke the same universal language. The music is their unity and ours. Bunny Wailer, the last of the original Wailing Wailers, died of a stroke at the age of 73 last week. He and his childhood friend Bob Marley formed a vocal trio with a young Peter Tosh in 1963, a year after Jamaica’s independence.
Maverick Citizen Short Story: UNMASKED!
Artwork by Carlos Amato. Today, Maverick Citizen is privileged to publish and launch a humorous short story by Andy 'The Admiral' Kasrils that allows us to look at our recent experiences of the Covid-19 lockdown through the lens of political satire.
Avengers: Infinity capitalism
Avengers: Infinity War, the 19th film in the highest-grossing film franchise in history — Disney’s Marvel Cinematic Universe, currently at $15-billion — opens in cinemas next week and is being hailed as revolutionary. But what’s been forgotten is that Avengers: Infinity War could have become the story of a revolution. To reveal why, cast your mind back a few weeks to the previous film in the series, Black Panther, itself grossing more than R100‑million in South Africa and $1.3‑billion worldwide.
South Africa: Why Black Panther Can't Save Us
opinion By Andy KasrilsIn his analysis of our present political situation, Adam Habib uses the analogy of the current hit film Black Panther to illustrate the way forward for South Africa. He likens the bad guy (Killmonger) in the film to the EFF who he reads as "proto-fascist" and the good guy (Black Panther) as the role model Cyril Ramaphosa's ANC should be emulating.
Why Black Panther can’t save us
In his analysis of our present political situation, Adam Habib uses the analogy of the current hit film Black Panther to illustrate the way forward for South Africa. He likens the bad guy (Killmonger) in the film to the EFF who he reads as “proto-fascist” and the good guy (Black Panther) as the role model Cyril Ramaphosa’s ANC should be emulating. I claim he misses the point, that while Black Panther presents itself as a progressive film, it fails and is actually the opposite.
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