EP08: "If I write for them, it means I am removing myself from my source". Nkata with Niq Mhlongo
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If you know Niq Mhlongo's work, this podcast conversation will offer a more expansive, informative, yet entertaining frame for better appraisal. As for those encountering him for the first time through this conversation, you will find that he continues in the tradition of many African artists whose encounter with art was underlined by remarkable coincidences which, in hindsight, could only be understood as a calling.
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