imagining the past / Finding culture / The place of the human / Citizenship and modernity in Soweto / Art worlds: the performances of Samson Mudzunga / African renaissance: interviews / Black and blue in the city of gold / Watching soap opera / Prized pleasures: TV game shows / Hip-hop graffiti art / Stagings: Ashraf Jamal interviews / Zulu radio drama / Joseph Shabalala: African composer / Kwaito / Writing from prison / Autobiographical acts / Beyond van Riebeeck / Contesting beauty / Cape Town's coon carnival / Hair politics / Soccer rites / City sites / Going south: African immigrants in Johannesburg / On the road / Digital S.A. / Elephant's breath