Nkoli: The Vogue Opera – the making of a musical about a queer liberation activist in South Africa

By Gwen Ansell The history of South Africa’s struggle against apartheid (separatist white minority rule) is taught only through the broadest of brushstrokes in the country’s schools. So might music be a way to bring the story of one anti-apartheid activist alive for a new generation? And when that activist is a Black gay man,