An Archive of the Ordinary
October 2, 2025
Our homes provide us with a cultural context that challenges ideas of how the oppressed lived. Like photographs, objects hold cultural memory, they connect us
History & Heritage
Food as Archive: Kerrievis/Pickled Fish
April 17, 2025
by Wendy Morris and Nadia Kamies In Taati Niilenge’s Walvis Bay: Our Story (2024) Nangula Shikujele remembers the 1960s in Kuisebmond when fish were plentiful
Straining Against the Archives
April 24, 2023
A gathering was recently held in Cape Town to read my essay, Unpick, Restitch: Doilies, Medorahs and Labouring Plants. The essay is the first in