Latitudes Podcast
Latitudes Podcast is the voice of art from Africa.
Hosted by Refiloe Mpakanyane, the podcast explores new ways of accessing and thinking about the contemporary visual arts from Africa, while also seeking to build strong community and a robust archive of thought leadership. The podcast serves as both a resource and a platform for critical discourse, bridging regional perspectives and shaping the conversation about art from Africa and the diaspora.
The Latitudes Podcast is sponsored by iTOO Artinsure and is brought to you by Latitudes Online, a digital marketplace for Art from Africa - curated by experts.
- Update frequency
- every 14 days
- Average duration
- 50 minutes
- Episodes
- 17
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
Thandiwe Muriu: Creating Locally, Impacting Globally
In this episode of the Latitudes Podcast, Refiloe Mpakanyane connects with Nairobi-based photographer Thandiwe Muriu. Thandiwe unpacks her knack for incorporating local wisdom into her art and lettin…
To Not Dream is To Die: The Philosophies of Ugoma Ebilah
In this episode of Latitudes Podcast Refiloe Mpakanyane is joined by Lagos based art curator, gallerist and cultural convener Ugoma Ebilah. In this conversation Ugoma talks us through the skills th…
Athi-Patra Ruga: Portrait Of A Boundless Artist
In this instalment of the podcast, multidisciplinary artist Athi-Patra Ruga joins Refiloe Mpakanyane, remotely from his farm and studio in the beautiful Hogsback area, in the Eastern Cape. The conv…
Zizipho Poswa: Sculpting Legacy, Rooted in Ancestry
In this moving conversation, Cape Town-based sculptural ceramicist Zizipho Poswa joins Refiloe Mpakanyane to share the personal, cultural and spiritual underpinnings of her extraordinary art practice…
Ayana V. Jackson – The Art of Showing Up
Chapter 1 of Season 2's podcast is all about flicking through the manual - a guide to the art industry: The door opener, the first step, the how-to enter and engage with the art industry. A resource-…
The Awe-Inspiring Mission of Valerie Kabov
Valerie Kabov is the Director of First Floor Gallery Harare as well as the co-founder of the African Art Galleries Association.
She is an educator, writer and researcher whose international experience…
Ubuntu and Isintu, Milisuthando Bongela on How Not to Forget
In this episode, Refiloe Mpakanyane speaks to award-winning writer Milisuthando Bongela. While her career began in fashion, her creative spirit has carried her into music, art, media and now film. Bo…
Setting your Change Agenda with Osei Bonsu
In episode 10 of the Latitudes Podcast, host Refiloe Mpakanyane speaks with British-Ghanaian, curatorial powerhouse, Osei Bonsu. A sought-after curator of contemporary art, Osei’s work has taken him …
On Blackness and Beauty with Ekow Eshun
In Episode 9 of the Latitudes Podcast, host Refiloe Mpakanyane talks to Ekow Eshun; a British writer, journalist, broadcaster and curator, about his abiding penchant for doing the difficult (and some…
Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi: Making Art is a Way of Thinking and Releasing
In episode 8 of the Latitudes Podcast, host Refiloe Mpakanyane talks to the dynamic New York born, South African-based, multi-media artist Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi, who received the Tollman Award for the …
Painting Our Humanity With Charles 'Chuck' Collins
In episode 7 of the Latitudes Podcast, host Refiloe Mpakanyane talks to San Francisco based Charles 'Chuck' Collins. Whether working in law or sitting on the board of the San Francisco Museum of Mode…
South African Modernism and Surprising Tales From a Life in the Auction World
The ABCs of Gen Z: Always be creating
In today's episode, host Refiloe Mpakanyane delves into why so many Gen-Z artists multi-task and produce at the intimidating rate they do. In conversation with dynamic young artists and ANNA Award fi…
Simchowitz and Altman: The Lightning Rod and The Anchor
Our guests on this episode of the Latitudes Podcast are South African-born, U.S-based friends of more than 30 years: Stefan Simchowitz and David Altman. Their wide-ranging conversation with Refiloe e…
Cinga Samson: Staying grounded amid a meteoric rise
Refiloe is in conversation with visual artist Cinga Samson about his meteoric rise to global, artistic success. Known for his figurative oil paintings of large-scale group scenes and self-portraits; …
Standing on quicksand with gallerist Mark Read
Refiloe interviews Mark Read, the chairman of Africa's oldest commercial gallery, the Everard Read Group. They talk about Mark’s unique experience of being raised in the art business; then going on t…
Architecture as an artistic medium: what are its impacts on local, social narratives?
Refiloe speaks to Professor Sumayya Vally, acclaimed architect (and principal of the award winning architecture and research practice Counterspace) about architecture as an artistic medium. The conve…