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PAIN, PAINT AND POSSIBILITIES

EMERGING ARTISTS ARE VERY VULNERABLE; THEY DON'T HAVE ANY FORM OF SUPPORT. WE'RE LOSING A LOT OF CRITICAL VOICES FROM THE AFRICAN CONTINENT, ESPECIALL Y FROM WOMEN.”
 —Nomaza Nongqunga Coupez
“IT WAS MY FIRST TIME HAVING A STUDIO.”
 —Nthabiseng Boledi Kekana

African woman was going to have a very, very hard life,” writes Sindiwe Magona in her paean to the fierce sororal resilience of female survivors. “He gave her that tough, timeless skin so that her woes would not be written all over her face, so that her face would not be a map to her torn and tattered

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