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Installation shot of ‘Leeto: Sam Nhlengethwa’s Print in Retrospective’. All images courtesy of Wits Art Museum.

Jazz is my oxygen

‘Leeto: A Sam Nhlengethwa print retrospective’ at Wits Art Museum ‘Leeto: Sam Nhlengethwa’s Print Retrospective’ surveys the printmaking practice of Nhlengethwa from 1978 to 2018. Leeto is Setswana/Sesotho for ‘journey’ and, as the word suggests,

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Artist Unrecorded, Xhosa. (Collar). Thread, glass seed beads, 14.4 x 40 cm. Mid-20th C. Image courtesy of Standard Bank African Art Collection (Wits Art Museum).

Beadwork

Inventing “African Traditions” in South Africa   Many South Africans like to talk about their traditions, and their cultures, as specific to their particular ethno-linguistic group (for example Zulu, Xhosa, or Pedi). Yet many also

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