A Corpse and its Jurisdiction – a letter from Lagos
Akin Adesokan tropes on the detective genre after he stumbles on an unidentified corpse in Oko-Oba. Who does the body belong to? And more importantly who is going to take responsibility for it in a society where bureaucracy and apathy have usurped common human decency? I had some housekeeping assignments around Oko-Oba, near the Abattoir […]
Washing Henry – a letter from New York
by Dave McKenzie As a memento of the process, I received a letter that begins with “Dear Fellow American” and ends with “Welcome to the joy, responsibility, and freedom of American citizenship. God bless you and God bless America.” This change in status from resident-alien to American citizen can be traced not to patriotism but […]
The Chronic (August 2013)
Published by Chimurenga, the Chronic is quarterly pan African newspaper that gives voice to all aspects of life on the continent and celebrates our capacity to continually produce something bold, beautiful and full of humour. Produced in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Nairobi, Paris, Lagos, Yaoundé, Accra, Kinshasa, Dakar, Kampala and Delhi, and distributed globally, it seeks […]
America Will Always Blame…
Rigo 23, born Ricardo Gouveia, is a Portuguese muralist, painter, and political artist residing in San Francisco, California. For over 20 years he’s been travelling the globe, placing murals, paintings, sculptures, and tile work in public situations where viewers are encouraged to examine their relationship to their community, their role as unwitting advocates of public […]
Graveyards, monuments and African Studies
by Nicole Sarmiento. “I have argued that the problem with this course is the result mainly of what the course team left out of the course, not of what they included in it. My critique is mainly what they did not teach, not about what they did teach.” – Mahmood Mamdani, “Is African studies to be […]