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Sindi-Leigh McBride

Sindi-Leigh McBride is a research assistant for African Mobilities and and writer from Johannesburg, currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Basel. Her essays, art writing and short stories have appeared in Africa's a Country, Bubblegum Club, Prufrock, the Mail & Guardian and more.

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/ 21 July 2020

Extractive histories and a waste-laden present: On Sammy Baloji’s Essay on Urban Planning

Congolese photographer Sammy Baloji’s Essay on Urban Planning interrogates the links between colonialism, extractive practices and environmental catastrophes in Urban Africa

By Mpho Matsipa and Sindi-Leigh McBride

Article

/ 13 April 2017

Bibles, bombs and God as love

I am an African and an Anglican and I don’t buy into the idea that Christianity has colonised African spirituality

By Sindi-Leigh McBride

Article

/ 28 March 2017

Best of the jazz fest in Cape Town this weekend

Sindi-Leigh McBride recommends who to look out for at the Cape Town International Jazz Festival.

By Sindi-Leigh McBride

Article

/ 17 March 2017

Low-key for the woke gang

Ericka Huggins, member of the Black Panther Party, advocated for needs-based activism in Cape Town

By Sindi-Leigh McBride

Article

/ 9 February 2017

Of love, loss and watermelons …

When in Obs obnoxious hippies are a given — but sometimes you can meet the love of your life and lose them just as swiftly

By Sindi-Leigh McBride