William Kentridge combines drawing, writing, film, performance, music, theatre, and collaborative practices to create works of art that are grounded in politics, science, and history, all the while maintaining a space for contradiction and uncertainty. This publication accompanied the exhibition at Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (24 August 2019 – 23 March 2020), which spanned more than forty years of art-making. It includes essays, conversations, a lecture, and a meticulous timeline of the history of twentieth-century South Africa, interwoven with a chronology of the artist’s life, work, and thinking over the decades.