Amogelang Maledu

🎨 artwork header by Tony Cokes.

[Amogelang Maledu @AmoMaledu]

so, i wrote a love letter to the city that introduced me to art & culture: Pitori 💌. it was judiciously tested in a university where i got a ✨distinction✨ for it. The love letter looks at #Amapiano vis-á-vis #Sepitori’s sociolinguistics as para-artistic & curatorial practices.

[Wamuwi Mbao @WamuwiM]

This. We are a country that loves to declare, in a distressingly ahistorical/truth-voided way, that "Nobody was doing [thing]/There was no [thing]", in spite of readily available evidence that is often still near the surface of our cultural archives.

[Amogelang Maledu @AmoMaledu]

@3rdbombadil @khanyisile lmaoooo let's goooooo 💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿

[Amogelang Maledu @AmoMaledu]

let’s go see one of South Africa’s dance icons: Mamela Nyamza’s “HATCHED ENSEMBLE”, akere you guys are suddenly interested in ballet and opera following Timmy’s comments, a re yeng geh: https://t.co/PrqxQJB615

[Mia K. @miakhalifa]

“It’s corny to dress up on theme for a concert” no actually it’s the most respectful thing we can do, to participate in the theatrics of art and meet the artist where they left us creatively. To be members rather than viewers, to be both muse and beneficiary of a theme

[Radical Self Lerato @radselflerato]

I used to believe that if you don’t have money, you shouldn’t have kids.

But I’m a country like South Africa where people are economically excluded, you understand why that thinking is eugenicist.

[•* @Miruciiii]

homosexuality was still classified as an illness in Sweden in 1979. Swedes protested by calling in sick to work, claiming they felt gay 😂

[love grifter 🇵🇸🇿🇦 @yolandablewup]

whirlwind engagements & messy divorces for all African queers in our lifetime 🏳️‍🌈🕯️🕯️

[provocation is good for society @khanyisile]

what I got from the manosphere doccie is that there is now a vast underclass of men who are developmentally delayed. and as such have no idea what's going on and actually think elites want to hobnob with them.

[Ms. @AphiweMame]

Writer here.I critically analyse South African pop culture through the lens of media studies, sociology, and cultural theory.

What began with a sociology reading of Ugly Betty in 2012 has evolved into an ongoing passion

🔗 Medium: https://t.co/iZ6lBQmnud
🔗 Substack: https://t.co/SutHwE1gVN

[Soleil @soleiljolina]

I highly recommend for women and girls to be intellectually curious and difficult to shame

[Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study (JIAS) @JIAS_UJ]

The JIAS Writing Fellowship is back for its ninth edition.

Running from 1 April – 30 June 2026, the fellowship brings scholars, writers, and creative practitioners to Johannesburg to focus on long-form research and creative work.

#JIAS #JIASWritingFellowship #JIAS2026Fellows

[fahmeedx @fahmeedx]

nobody talks about the amount of
storage space you need to be a creative

[Wamuwi Mbao @WamuwiM]

3) There are many wonderful South African films from the last decade, and many truly abysmal ones as well (that's another story). But they'll never succeed as long as we live in an incurious society.

[THANDISWA MAZWAI @thandiswamazwai]

Me with Kwaito, Afro-Pop, Afro Soul, Jazz, Punk rock, house, Amapiano and whatever genre I have carved out with my music. Miles is my inspiration.

[Freyy @Freyy_is]

dear apple, the iPod needs to come back. not for nostalgia. for the parents who want their kids to love music and audiobooks without a browser, social media, and the whole internet attached to it

[Rumbidzai @SamanthaVazhure]

Huge congratulations to fellow Zimbabwean author @andrew_chatora on launching @FriesianPub! Submissions are open - please send in your best work 🧡📚

[Amogelang Maledu @AmoMaledu]

Recho Omondi is my fav “it girl” !! she reminds me of my younger aspirations to be a cultural/feature journalist before this brutal sadistic “death” in print media. i respect her POV, agility, nerdiness & hustle so much. i would highkey want to muster the courage to be ✨her✨.

[Amogelang Maledu @AmoMaledu]

sardonically in touch with the industry he works in, capable in his own convictions of his craft and incredibly good at his work — honestly, a gift!

[Lelo @lelowhatsgood]

James Blake is really a one of a kind artist.

[Amogelang Maledu @AmoMaledu]

@doubledsdouble oh fascinating 😮‍💨