At the beginning of our journey, founder Ngaire Blankenberg was interviewed by the Observer about her vision for turning small museums into African cultural centers for a new generation.

‘We don’t need new policies—we have solid policies. We don’t need more talent—we have incredible cultural producers and we have an interested and engaged public. The curse of the post-colonial era in Africa is our struggle to build viable institutions and our seeming lack of patrons (public and private) with a long view on supporting organizations that are responsible for keeping African heritage spaces open and alive’.

Read our founder Ngaire Blankenberg’s essay on the state of museums in South Africa and beyond, in Africa is A Country.

‘We are, after all, here to discuss the launch of her new project in a neighbouring street in Parktown North — A42 House’s inaugural, co-created exhibition. “Inviting young people in Joburg to define, explore and reclaim what belonging means in a place shaped by displacement, segregation and layered histories, the exhibition transforms a domestic space into a site of listening, healing, repair and imagination.”’.

Read Ngaire Blankenberg’s Hot Lunch interview with Aspasia Karras in South Africa’s Sunday Times