Kalamazoo Mokone
Sam Nhlengethwa
Artwork 2016
Sam Nhlengethwa's lithograph 'Kalamazoo Mokone' shows a soccer player on the cover of Drum magazine.
Artwork: Sam Nhlengethwa, Kalamazoo Mokone (2016). Lithograph. 52 x 40 cm. Courtesy of Goodman Gallery.
Artist Sam Nhlengethwa Title Kalamazoo Mokone Date 2016 Materials Lithograph Dimensions 52 x 40 cm Credit Courtesy of Goodman Gallery

From Phokeng Tshepo Setai and Alexander Richards, the curators of Exhibition Match '22:

Nhlengetwa’s lithograph forms part of a series of works memorialising past events that define and epitomise historical South African political discourses to illustrate the underpinnings and foundations of present activist efforts. The work depicts a cover of Drum Magazine, an iconic document of black South African culture, with Stephen 'Kalamazoo' Mokone, a South African soccer star who was the first black South African player to play in a professional European league in the early 1960s.

Installation photograph from the 2022 rendition of Exhibition Match on A4’s second. At the back, Sam Nhlengethwa’s lithograph ‘Kalamazoo Mokone’ and Moshekwa Langa’s photograph ‘Magaola’ are mounted on the green wall next to a wall-mounted wooden shelving unit that hosts Mikhael Subotzky’s photograph ‘Self-Portrait with Soccer Team, Voorberg Prison’ and Johannes Segogela’s ‘Bafana Bafana Soccer Team’ sculpture.
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