# Sisonke Msimang

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Alison Page is a creative shape shifter

Yuin and Dharawal designer, Alison Page discusses how storytelling drives her creative process ahead of her first ever solo exhibition 'Creative Shape Shifter' which is being featured as part of this year's Melbourne Design Week. In a collaboration with the ABC Rewind series Boycott: the fight to e…

The Sunday read: Scapegoating migrants and anger at a failing political system

One Nation’s historic win in Farrer has drawn conservative politicians into yet another harmful debate about immigration. Author Sisonke Msimang says blaming migrants won’t ease the pain disillusioned voters are feeling

How Blak rugby rebels protested the Apartheid

In a collaboration with the ABC Rewind series Boycott: The fight to end Apartheid, Sisonke Msimang chats with Phillipa McDermott about how her father was one of multiple Aboriginal Rugby players who protested against South Africa's Apartheid. To check out the full Boycott series by ABC Rewind, clic…

Sisonke Msimang - Part 2

Sisonke was born in exile during apartheid and has penned a memoir called 'Always Another Country' about issues including gender violence, racism and politics.

Sisonke Msimang - Part 1

Sisonke was born in exile during apartheid and has penned a memoir called 'Always Another Country' about issues including gender violence, racism and politics.

Russia's far-right bikies, plus the afterlives of Sarah Baartman

Established in Moscow in 1989, the 'Night Wolves' motorcycle club continues to operate as a powerful propaganda arm of the Putin regime. Plus, the writer Sisonke Msimang defends the legacy of Sarah "Saartjie" Baartman, the African woman trafficked through early 19th Century Europe as a 'freak show'…

Sarah Baartman: a life, a body, a battle over memory

Sarah Baartman’s body was used by European scientists to promote racist ideas that endured for generations. A new essay in Griffith Review revisits her extraordinary and tragic story — from her exploitation as a colonial spectacle in Europe, to the continuing debates over how she should be remember…

Robyn Archer and Sisonke Msimang on Winne Mandela

Robyn Archer looks back on her life of cabaret and Sisonke Msimang has an honest look at the life of Winnie Mandela.

A Sustained Observation

Ivan Vladislavić speaks about his writing life in Johannesburg through observations, readings and reflections. Drawing from his fiction and non-fiction works, he discusses how keeping notes and collecting fragments of everyday urban life has shaped his approach to storytelling, which often relies o…