Kalamazoo Mokone
Sam Nhlengethwa
Sam Nhlengethwa
Artwork
2016
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.