Trending Chats: Cultural appropriation vs appreciation

Culture can be such an important part of our lives as social beings as it is used to communicate to others who we are and where we come from. So it makes sense that many of us may get emotional when we feel like we’ve been “touched in our cultural studio”. Cultural appropriation is often a trigger & has seen the rise of many debates over the last few years, we revist this topic again tonight, Smash Afrika was joined by Jamie Mightie commentator & independent analyst, Laduma Ngxokolo – fashion designer & founder of Maxhosa ,as well as, Prof. Adam Haupt – from UCT.