The Cheeky Natives

Send us Fan Mail 'Your uncle is a hatchet/i buried in my crotch on purpose' - Ashley MakueNtozake Shenge said ' being black, and woman and alive is a metaphysical dilemma I haven't conquered yet.' And this episode of the Cheeky Natives featuring Ashley Makue was just that. the unravelling of the metaphysical dilemma of black queer womxnhood in its full spectrum. From being...

Send us Fan Mail "If we going to heal let it be glorious" - Warsan Shire The Cheeky Natives sat down with Lebo Mashile and Khanyisa Buti(Majola) to discuss their album ' Moya' - 12 tracks of music and poetry. It has a variety of sounds and an array of revolution. It tells a beautiful story of Africans - a reclaiming of our stories. Work like ' Moya' is true to the spi...

Send us Fan Mail 'Being black, woman and alive is a metaphysical dilemma, I haven't quite conquered yet' -Ntozake Shange is quoted as saying. And so as The Cheeky Natives, we sat with the prodigious Koleka Putuma as we discussed the metaphysical dilemmas of being black and woman and alive in the era of melanin magic. We were honoured by the presence of black girl slay from Vuyelwa M...

Send us Fan Mail "Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form."- Toni MorrisonOn this episode the Cheeky Natives sat down and spoke to the Melanin Magic that is the CEO (Thabiso Afurakan Mohare) and the Managing Director (Qhakaza Mthembo) of Word n Sound Live Literature Company - a company that has created a haven for black literature as a r...

Send us Fan Mail 'My mother died seven times before she gave birth to me. I am grateful for that corpse that somehow always seemed to resurrect itself. My father is gone now but his smile is alive on my brother's face. There is no life without death; the two rely on each other and we rely on them for both for our purpose.'So begins the first chapter of Mohale Mashigo's 'Th...

Send us Fan Mail So many books, so little time.” ― Frank Zappa We have read so many books and have had lengthy conversations about the books that we read. A good book, like a great meal hasn't been done justice until it's been throughly savoured, every page consumed and digested. And like a great meal,whose taste is amplified by sharing we thought it would be a great idea to start this p...