The Black Portraiture[s] III conference at the Turbine Hall in Johannesburg brings together artists, scholars, writers, activists, art institutions and culture practitioners from the US, Africa and the African diaspora in South Africa to dialogue, exhibit films, and engage with an academic prognosis of where Universal Blackness is today. The conference and its ambitions become the central subject in Bonolo Kavula's Strategically Strange, which blends critical commentary, comedy, and illustration.