Where lineage becomes Living knowledge

Grounded in the philosophy of UBuSuSu, our work unfolds across the archive, studio, education, community, and global dialogue as intergenerational sites of living knowledge.
 

SHOLDING AND ACTIVATING AFRICAN KNOWLEDGE THROUGH PRESERVATION, DIGITISATION, AND PUBLICATION.

ADVANCING ARTISTIC CREATION, MENTORSHIP, AND INTERGENERATIONAL MAKING.

EDUCATION, RESEARCH, FELLOWSHIP, AND INSTITUTIONAL PARTNERSHIP.

EXHIBITIONS, COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, AND INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL EXCHANGE.

To consolidate, preserve, and digitise Professor Ntuli’s body of work, establishing the studio as a primary archival and pedagogical site.

To position African philosophical and artistic knowledge within continental and global cultural institutions.

 

To activate the studio as a site of education, performance, and community engagement.

From bold concepts to early pilots, we support ideas with potential to scale across African communities, providing catalytic funding, strategic partnerships, and evidence-based learning.

The purpose of the Ntuli Foundation is to deliver public benefit in the areas of culture, heritage, and education, ensuring that African philosophical, artistic, and spiritual knowledge systems are preserved, activated, and transmitted to future generations. All assets and activities of the Foundation are applied exclusively towards these objectives.

Pitika Ntuli's latest poetry collection, Palestine in My Heart (published by Botsotso), gathers poems written over several years in response to the ongoing suffering in Gaza. Moving between lyrical empathy and biting satire, the collection draws powerful parallels between Palestinian experience and South Africa's own history of resistance, linking Gaza to Sharpeville and Jenin to Boipatong.

 

The book is more than verse alone. It is illustrated with reproductions of Ntuli's striking sculptures — bone, stone, and reclaimed metal shaped into vessels of ancestral memory and political testimony. As ever, Ntuli writes as the Boneblower of the Living Stone, offering work that is at once elegy, incantation, and act of solidarity.

 

Palestine in My Heart is available now from Botsotso. ISBN: 978-0-6398785-0-8.