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Blood Money – A Douala Chronicle

By Dominique Malaquais

Calabar Winch

Poets Are Hurting: Lesego Rampolokeng in Conversation with Mafika Gwala

Contributors

Situation is Critical

Jeremy Weate moves from text to context in search of

Mamane

Remembering Mam'Winnie Madikizela-Mandela's time in Majwemasweu, Brandfort

Airport Theatre, African Villain

Martin Kimani navigates airport theatrics, from crotch explosives to sniffer

A PASSPORT BY ANY OTHER NAME

The concept of an Africa without borders for Africans remains

Imagined Waters

Through the poetry of its mariners – the singers of

Guilt Trips

Kai Friese interrogates the colonial fantasy that lives on in

CHIMURENGA@20: AZANIA SALUTES TOSH

On the eve of the tenth anniversary of the death

Anti-Teleology: Re-Mapping the Imag(in)ed City

For some years now, scholars in a range of fields

Koltan Kills Kids

By Tsuba Ka 23 (Dominique Malaquais, Mowoso, Kongo Astronauts)

SEXING AFRICA, AGAIN – POP AS POLITICS: WATCH IT TONIGHT ON HBO

By Dominique Malaquais

PAINT THE WHITE HOUSE BLACK – A CALL TO ARMS

By Dominique Malaquais

THIRD TRANSITION

Shoks Mzolo and Bongani Kona trace the path of South

Between the Lines of an Unpatriotic Presidential Pre-Recorded Address

FOURTH REPUBLIC 19 conducts a post-mortem on not-so-presidential minutes in

Ibadan, Soutin and the Puzzle of Bower’s Tower

The jingle would survive the event, as the poetry of

Nigeria’s Superstar Men Of God

Who needs the God of the bible with his promises

African Cities Reader I: Pan-African Practices

Featuring writing and musings by Rustum Kozain, Jean-Christophe Lanquetin, Gabeba

Monumental Failures

By Dominique Malaquais

Remembering Biafra

In 1968, Nigeria's finance minister, agricultural produce mogul Obafemi Awolowo

THINGS THAT GO IN AND OUT OF THE BODY

THE BLACK BOMB

PORTRAIT OF MYSELF AS MY FATHER

A BRIEF HISTORY OF CHIMURENGA AS A COMMUNAL LABORATORY

Down the footpath

Meeting Marti, Neruda and Langa in the streets…

Dagga

Rustum Kozain muses over the cultural and alternative relations built,

Fufu Pot: A Truth Hard to Swallow

Time to Bleed

The Making of Mannenberg

The Upper Room

Sexing Africa, Again

Dansons Donc le Zouglou

Lagos, Lagos

Mining the Biennale

It Can Only Go Up From Here

Dispossessed Vigils

City Building in Post-Conflict, Post-Socialist Luanda

The Scandal

Re-Membering the Name of God

Shooting From Point Blank Range

New Oil Old Lamps

Palestine Journey

Number 11

Birthing the American

Yemisi Aribisala explores, with mixed emotions, the enduring opportunism of

Onitsha Republic

The story of a South African firm

In Defense Of The Films We Have Made

Monica Maxwell and Samson Botsotso

Walking through walls

Platinum Dreams

The Quiet Encroachment of the Ordinary

Juba ‘I will make my life here’

The metronomes of ancient history, the legacy of war, the

In Search of Yambo

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