Look through the brochure for artist Sabelo Mlangeni's Cantor Arts exhibit Imvuselelo: The Revival, which ran from September 27, 2023 to January 21, 2024. A full reproduction of the text within the brochure follows the images.

Read Sabelo Mlangeni in conversation with Joel Cabrita's class, "Curating the Image: Photography and the Politics of Exhibitions in South Africa." The class took place at the Cantor Arts Center on October 4, 2023 and includes responses with Charlotte Linden, Director of Academic and Public Programs at the Cantor. 

Read through a lecture given by professor Neelika Jayawardane (SUNY-Oswego) and a Response by Sabelo Mlangeni, which was part of the "Producing Knowledge In and Of Africa" research workshop series at Stanford Humanities Center. This conversation originally took place on October 4, 2023. 

In Parts One and Two of this article, I explored Hannah Arendt’s communication with Karl Jaspers about potential recipients of the 1963 Balzan Prize, as well as her correspondence with South African writer Dan Jacobson about James Baldwin and the difference between American and South African...

In Part One of this essay, I introduced the Balzan Prize for Humanity, Peace and Fraternity among Peoples, along with Hannah Arendt’s involvement in the potential selection of the 1963 prize winner. I highlighted that her correspondence with Dan Jacobson and Karl Jaspers regarding potential nominees...

On August 18, 1963, Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) described in a letter to Dan Jacobson (1929-2014), a South African writer residing in London, what she believed was “the greatest difference between South Africa and the [United] States.” She had just returned from a rejuvenating vacation in Europe, only...

Read through a conversation between Joel Cabrita the South African artist and curator Gabi Ngcobo, Sabelo Mlangeni, and students from Professor Cabrita's class, held at Stanford University's Cantor Arts Center on November 15, 2023.

In a series of edited conversations conducted over the span of 13 months, Joel Cabrita interviews Sabelo Mlangeni about religion, place-making, family, photography, and the aesthetics and temporality of waiting. 

Jordache A. Ellapen reflects on his photographic project, Queering the Archive: Brown Bodies in Ecstasy, which blends photographs from his family archive with contemporary portraits shot in a studio. The work examines the intersections of race, sexuality, and eroticism as they relate to the in/visibility of black and brown queer bodies and subjectivities in South Africa.

Imvuselelo: The Revival includes photographs of some of the 15-18 million members of the African Zionism movement, a Christian practice, unrelated to Jewish nationalism, which centers healing.