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Raphael Benza, head of Johannesburg-based record label Vth Season, says the very name Best African Performance goes against pigeonholing.

From BBC • Feb. 1, 2025

And I don't know, I guess just not pigeonholing people.

From Salon • Mar. 30, 2024

Aside from the expressive art, “the story is not so much a story as an affirmation, about identity and being open to change and not pigeonholing yourself.”

From Seattle Times • Nov. 13, 2023

But then once we got to Season 1, understandably, the idea of pigeonholing this character into that — I think it limits what you can do with her later on.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2023

It offers no nifty formulas for pigeonholing people or decoding folkways and manners.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times