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Podcast · By Ben Uri · British English · Official site

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  1. Episode · Sep 13, 2026

    Pitika Ntuli (opens the original)

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    Pitika Ntuli was born in Mpumalanga, South Africa in 1942 and, as a teenage member of the Pan Africanist Congress, was at the frontline of apartheid resistance. Arriving in his 30s as an exile in England in 1978, after studying in the USA and imprisonment in Swaziland, he received qualifications at Middlesex Polytechnic and Brunel University in 1984 and 1985, respectively. Until his return to South Africa in 1994, Ntuli contributed widely to exhibitions and arts education in London and beyond, k

  2. Episode · Sep 13, 2026

    Omeima Mudawi-Rowlings (opens the original)

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    Omeima Mudawi-Rowlings was born in Khartoum, Sudan in 1969. Having lost her hearing due to meningitis, her family relocated to England in 1981, as there were no schools for the deaf in Khartoum. She earned a BA in Textile Design at the Surrey Institute for Art and Design (SIAD) and in 2003 she founded Resonant Arts, an arts-led initiative focused on deaf women, facilitating integration and the exchange of artistic practices between hearing and deaf female artists. Her textiles feature organic an

  3. Episode · Sep 13, 2026

    Louis Maqhubela (opens the original)

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    Louis Maqhubela was born to Xhosa parents in South Africa in 1939. During 1957‒59, while still attending high school, he started studying part-time under artists Cecil Skotnes and Sydney Komalo at the Polly Street Centre in Johannesburg. After spending time with the South African expatriate artist, Douglas Portway, in Cornwall, England, Maqhubela embraced a new direction towards modernist abstraction. In 1978 he settled in London, where he attended Goldsmiths' College and the Slade School of Fin

  4. Episode · Sep 13, 2026

    Emmanuel Taiwo Jegede (opens the original)

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    Emmanuel Taiwo Jegede was born in Ayegbaju Ekiti, in the Yoruba-speaking region of Nigeria, on 9 June 1943. After early art training in his homeland, in 1963 he moved to England to study painting and decoration at Willesden College of Technology, London (1963–66), before training in sculpture and bronze-casting at Hammersmith School of Art, London (1966–70). Jegede was an active member of the Caribbean Artists’ Movement (CAM) and co-founded the Rainbow Art Group, promoting emerging artists from

  5. Episode · Sep 13, 2026

    Gavin Jantjes (opens the original)

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    Gavin Jantjes was born in District Six in Cape Town, South Africa in 1948. He attended Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town between 1966 and 1969, after which he received a scholarship to study at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg, Germany between 1970 and 1972. Producing controversial artworks criticising the apartheid regime in South Africa, Jantjes was exiled to England in 1982, where he has since taught, published and exhibited widely, the themes of internatio

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