Africa Rising Music Conference is back for its sixth edition and the full 2026 programme has just landed. Constitution Hill, Johannesburg, 22–23 May, and from the lineup to the access fund to the keynote, this is shaping up to be the most unmissable edition yet.

The ukhamba endures. Not because an institution preserved it, but because a woman in Eshowe learned from her mother, who learned from hers. Jabulile Nala is the latest custodian of a ceramic language centuries in the making.

What happens when a painter refuses to let skin define his subjects? Mpho Feni's chromatic practice channels Frantz Fanon's vision of a post-racial, humanistic future.