Black House Kollective Soweto Archives - Consciousness.co.za Magazine https://consciousness.co.za/tag/black-house-kollective-soweto/ Arts and African History Fri, 18 Sep 2026 14:36:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.6 A Tribute Reading Circle in Honour of Bra Perfect Hlongwane https://consciousness.co.za/a-tribute-reading-circle-in-honour-of-bra-perfect-hlongwane/ https://consciousness.co.za/a-tribute-reading-circle-in-honour-of-bra-perfect-hlongwane/#respond Fri, 18 Sep 2026 14:35:05 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=15138 BlackHouse Kollective (BHK), in collaboration with Lit Culture Books and Black Ghost Books, calls the community to gather. Frank Wilderson tells us that Blackness is not a cultural identity to be celebrated. It is a structural position. A relation of ontological death. The slave did not become human after emancipation. The world simply adjusted. Violence [...]

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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/a-tribute-reading-circle-in-honour-of-bra-perfect-hlongwane/feed/ 0 BLACKWASH SAYS: Fuck Soccer! We want liberation! https://consciousness.co.za/blackwash-says-fuck-soccer-we-want-liberation/ https://consciousness.co.za/blackwash-says-fuck-soccer-we-want-liberation/#respond Sun, 18 Feb 2024 20:42:49 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=14942 (Ncebakazi Manzi & Pakama Ngceni) Soccer is opium for the oppressed – a drug that keeps them just where their oppressors would like them to be. It is Generations, Scandal, Days of Our Lives, The Bold and the Beautiful and Jika-Majika all in one. For 90 minutes or more, the black poor can forget about [...]

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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/blackwash-says-fuck-soccer-we-want-liberation/feed/ 0 Solidarity with Dr. Pedro Mzileni https://consciousness.co.za/solidarity-with-dr-pedro-mzileni/ https://consciousness.co.za/solidarity-with-dr-pedro-mzileni/#respond Thu, 05 Oct 2023 15:29:01 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=14879 BlackHouse Kollective Soweto (BHK) stands in solidarity with Dr. Pedro Mzileni and the growing list of supporters who affirm the need to identify and critically engage the continued legacy of settler colonialism culture and structural antiblack racism in Occupied Azania. We oppose the weaponization of institutions and discourses that are meant to counter the legacy [...]

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