I’ve always found comfort in Windhoek’s Magdalena Stoffels Bridge. On a sunny day five years ago, I’m watching people walk over it. The sky is magnificent in a fringe of fluffy white clouds and I hear the promise of the…

In poet Elke Debortoli’s ‘Liquid Paralysis: Poetry for Haunted Souls’, an image that lingers is the moon. Sometimes iridescent, other times black, weeping or casting spells, it’s nocturnal and knowing presence gives light to an anthology enlivened by unflinching introspection,…

After a decade of standing vacant, Windhoek’s Alte Feste is set for restoration. Once a colonial military fort, a school hostel and a national museum, the Alte Feste is being reimagined as an arts, craft and heritage centre through a…

After a decade of standing vacant, Windhoek’s Alte Feste is set for restoration. Once a colonial military fort, a school hostel and a national museum, the Alte Feste is being reimagined as an arts, craft and heritage centre through a…

My friend Erika is worried about the rivers the rain has brought but she’s more concerned about the ghosts. She says Namibia’s rain-soaked roads are full of them. Wandering spirits suddenly severed from their bodies looking for resolution, some sort…

If homegrown hilarity is your thing, Savanna Comedy Hour is the hot new ticket. Building on the success of Comedy Hour’s multiple-year run at Vinyls, the monthly stand-up comedy show recently announced its partnership with Savanna Premium Cider. During the…

Veteran theatremaker Keamogetsi joseph Molapong returns to the National Theatre of Namibia (NTN) with a production of Sifiso Nyathi’s acclaimed theatre play ‘God of Women’. Starring Mervin Claasen, Toucy Tjijombo, Askar B Onyiego, Nguundja Kandjii, Tjiurimo Kandjii, Chrisjan Appolus, Kuzajatu…

Namibia’s creatives are headed to Swakopmund as the coastal town gears up for ‘The Gathering’. Presenting a programme of talks, networking sessions and creative interludes with some of the country’s leading creatives, the indaba-style event will take place at Swakopmund…

Amsterdam-based Namibian singer-songwriter Shishani made a return to the local scene on a stormy Friday evening. The outdoor setu of the Franco Namibian Cultural Centre (FNCC) is shielded by a black tarp as a diverse crowd splashes in, huddles close…

Sculptor Wolradt Sithole says luring shapes and forms out of Namibian white marble is an act of listening. “It gives you a sound. If it goes ding, ding, ding, it’s a hard surface. Choo, choo, choo, it’s soft,” says Sithole.…

Almost six years after the success of ‘Parasite’ (2019), writer and director Bong Joon Ho returns to the screen with ‘Mickey 17’ (2025). Set in 2054, where Robert Pattinson’s Mickey Barnes is dodging dismemberment by a homicidal loan shark, ‘Mickey…

The thing people grumbling about women empowerment and gender equality tend to forget is the bulk of human history. You know, the period since the dawn of time when mostly men ruled the world, women were relegated to worse than…