Mawande Ka Zenzile is among the artists shortlisted for the inaugural Norval Sovereign African Art Prize, intended to 'celebrate the practices of leading contemporary artists'. The selected artworks will be exhibited at the museum from 26 January 2022.

Zanele Muholi presents another solo exhibition adapted from their Tate survey at Bildmuseet. The show will look at the breadth of their practice and will include a new publication featuring an interview with the activst. 

Serge Alain Nitegeka exhibits in Ubuntu, a lucid dream at Palais de Tokyo, curated by Marie-Ann Yemsi. The show brings together works which chime with the Ubuntu philosophy of “making humanity together” 'while attempting to approach it as a resource, a space for invention, or fiction, as well as a mediation with the real world'.

Zanele Muholi presents a solo exhibition at Gropius Bau. Adapted from their Tate survey show, this selection of works, curated by Natasha Ginwala spans early and recent works making possible to 'experience the entire spectrum' of the activist's photographic practice. 

Frida Orupabo joins Kara Walker, Julius Eastman & The Otolith Group, Sunday Service (with Kanye West), and Noah Davis for Galerie Rudolfinum's latest time-based exhibition, 'Not Without Joy'.

As one of six artists featured in The Momentary's group exhibition, In Some Form or Fashion, Simphiwe Ndzube explores the cultural implications of fashion and how identities are shaped by the garments individuals purchase, wear and dispose of, with a site-responsive, large-scale installation.

Zanele Muholi exhibits as part of Known and Strange: Photographs from the Collection at the V&A Museum. 'The display highlights the diversity of a medium that, through its malleability, enables many different perspectives to be captured'.  

Neo Matloga forms part of a two-person exhibition at the Marta Herford Museum for Art titled We just want to be closer. Alongside photographer Singarum Moodley, the artist presents 'a multi-layered narrative about freedom and self-determination'. 

Works from Pieter Hugo, Viviane Sassen and Guy Tillim were selected for the 44th anniversary exhibition at Daimler Contemporary Berlin, titled Friendship. Nature. Culture. The collection's 3 000 works span 100 years, '[forming]  networks and [exploring] the interplay between art and human coexistence'.

The exhibition of artists shortlisted for the 2021 Future Generation Art Prize, including Frida Orupabo, takes place at the PinchukArtCentre. Curated by Björn Geldhof, this edition 'explores the world we live in today and how past experiences compel us to face a more inclusive future'. 

Paulo Nazareth and Frida Orupabo feature in Though it's dark, still I sing, the 34th Bienal de São Paulo. The exhibition includes the work of over 90 artists 'claiming the need for art as a field of encounter, resistance, rupture and transformation'. 

As part of the 34th Bienal de São Paulo, Frida Orupabo presents a solo exhibition at Museu Afro Brasil. This presentation combines photographs and images from the artist's personal archive to create digital collages that explore race, gender, identity, sexuality. 

Our 9th issue outlines our 'thinking outside the booth' approach, new chapters in Zanele Muholi's activism, highlights from the critical reception of Jo Ractliffe’s recent survey exhibition and extract by Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi from the catalogue for How to Make a Country. 

Barthélémy Toguo presents Craving For Humanity at the Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac. The exhibition follows the 'angle of intimate and collective experiences' with works by the artist hung alongside antiquities from the museum. 

Simphiwe Ndzube features in Lineages: Works from the Collection at the NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale. The exhibition brings together works which speak to the museum's current show on Eric N Mack, highlighting 'contemporary artists whose work shares affinities with Mack’s poetic arrangements and thematic concerns'. 

Robin Rhode exhibits in FIRE IN MY BELLY at the Julia Stoschek Collection. Comprising film, video, photography, painting, sculpture and poetry, the exhibition seeks to examine the ways in which experiences of violence and loss are enacted, witnessed and transformed. 

Frida Orupabo exhibits in Toronto's historic garment district as part of the city's Public Art programme, ArtworxTO. The mural is the first in a two-part project, with the second work launching at the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival in May

Moshekwa Langa, Simphiwe Ndzube, Frida Orupabo, Penny Siopis, Barthélémy Toguo and Portia Zvavahera exhibit in Witness: Afro Perspectives from the Jorge M Pérez Collection at El Espacio 23. The show features over 100 works by artists from the region and its diaspora. 

Pieter Hugo, Zanele Muholi, Odili Donald Odita, Robin Rhode, Guy Tillim and Portia Zvavahera are included in Allied with Power: African and African Diaspora Art from the Jorge M Pérez Collection at the Pérez Art Museum Miami. 'Collapsing national borders, the artists in the exhibition ally with power, representing a kaleidoscope of voices that declare their authority.'

Meleko Mokgosi's Your Trip to Africa references Peter Kubelka's 1966 Unsere Afrikareise ('Our Trip to Africa'). Mokgosi adds 'a new emotional force, reversing the desensitized tone that often accompanies modernist aesthetic treatments of non-Western subjects'.

Pan-African Pulp, a commission by Meleko Mokgosi, is on view at the University of Michigan Museum of Art. His installation features large-scale panels inspired by African photo novels of the 1960s and 70s, a mural examining the complexity of blackness, and posters from pan-African movements around the world.