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THIRD CLASS CITY
South Africa thinks that India owes it one for putting Gandhi through revolution school; India thinks South Africa owes it for sending him over to show the natives how it’s done.
African Cities Reader II: Mobilities & Fixtures
The second installment of the Reader is centered on the theme ‘Mobilities and Fixtures’. In this issue Sean O’Toole interviews architect David Adjaye about African cityscapes, snapshot photography and failed utopias;
Y MAGAZINE (THE FIRST 5 ISSUES)
Born in 1998 out of a joint partnership between Studentwise, publishers of […]
Staffrider
An Essay by Ivan VladislavićMarch 2008 I joined Ravan Press as a […]
Of “Brothers with Perfect Timing”
An Essay by Mike Abraham2008 Germiston station has a very long platform. […]
WHY: An Essay by Nicole Turner
Forgive me if the facts are screwed, Y days were heady and chaotic. I […]
Crossing Borders Without Leaving
by Keorapetse Kgositsile Returning home, even though just for a short visit, […]
English Language Visa
by Keorapetse William Kgositsile Some years back, when writers like Ngũgĩ wa […]
The University of Soweto
Frank B. Wilderson draws from his memory of student protests in 1993 […]
African Cities Reader II: Mobilities & Fixtures
The second installment of the Reader is centered on the theme ‘Mobilities and Fixtures’. In this issue Sean O’Toole interviews architect David Adjaye about African cityscapes, snapshot photography and failed utopias;
Your Own Hand Sold You: Voluntary servitude in the Francafrique
In the CFA franc, the French colonial mission in West Africa found a way to ensure a paternalist and pernicious stranglehold on the economies of a vast region of the continent.
They Won’t Go When I Go
A Manifesto/ Meditation on State of Black Archives in America and throughout the Diaspora by Harmony Holiday
WHO KILLED KABILA: CAST OF CHARACTERS
The cast list of actors and character who make an appearance in the issue includes everyone from Ché Guevara and psychiatrist, political theorist and Frantz Fanon, to Rashidi Muzele, the assassin who pulled the trigger and many more.
PASS presents: FOKN Bois (LIVE at Greatmore Studios)
On 10 September 2016, the Pan African Space Station hosted Gospel Christain […]
PORTRAITS OF POWER
The president’s portrait holds a venerable position in post-independence Zimbabwe. Not unlike […]
PORTRAIT OF MYSELF AS MY FATHER
A CONVERSATION WITH NORA CHIPAUMIRE Born in Mutare, Zimbabwe, and based in New […]
NONE BUT OURSELVES
The history of reggae in Zimbabwe echoes far beyond Bob Marley’s historic […]
ARMY ARRANGEMENT
News of President Robert Gabriel Mugabe’s imminent ouster from office continues to […]
Yahoo Boy No Laptop
Dami Ajayi celebrates the eclectic sound and success of Olamide, arguably Nigeria’s […]
PASS LANDING AT OBA CENTRAL LIBRARY, AMSTERDAM
From 11 -15 December 2016, the Pan African Space Station (PASS) landed in Amsterdam, transmitting live from the OBA Central Library.
Come On Up, Sweetheart
In an “intensely private encounter” with the personal letters of James Baldwin, […]
Creating Theatre: A George Hallett Photo Essay
“Exile demands contemplation because it is unavoidably real for those who experience […]
Franc-maçonnerie Suite
By Dominique Malaquais 1st Movement : Uncle Tom or DOM-TOM? Il y a […]
A Pan African Circle of Artists
By Ugochukwu-Smooth Nzewi In June 1991, Krydz Ikwuemesi, then a third-year art student […]
Mining the Biennale
In late 2012, two contemporary art exhibitions opened in the same country, […]
Together in the Picture
John Peffer scans the photographic styles that image a black South African […]
Creative Industries as Underdevelopment
Are the creative industries turning the tide against urban development in the […]
Reviews in Brief
by Stacy Hardy. Our Lady of the Nile Scholastique Mukasonga (transl. […]
PASS presents Floating Points in Cape Town
The Pan African Space Station presents Floating Points (featuring Globalise Yourself Stereo) […]
Situation is Critical
Jeremy Weate moves from text to context in search of the current […]
The New Thing
Out of the silence, the crevices, cracks and forgotten places of Cape […]
Boda Boda Lounge Project: Nov 21 – 23
Chimurenga are participating in the Boda Boda Lounge Project from Friday November 21 […]
Accordion Cowboys
Tseliso Monaheng explores famo, a popular form of accordion music that blends […]
The Last Angel of History
Filmmaker, theorist and co-founder of the Black Audio Film Collective (BAFC) John […]
Depth of Field
Depth of Field (DOF) collective, a group made up of six Nigerian […]
Manufacturing the post-election peace: A reporter’s 2013 election diary
Parselelo Kantai watches as NGOs, the media and the state rally together […]
What’s Next
Socially conscious rhymes and hipster swag; sexy dance moves and magical mbira; […]
All Roads Lead to Hendrix
Greg Tate‘s epic Hendrixian map hyperlinked to the hilt. As all roads […]
Cover Story
He’s been described as the “founding father of African literature”, an author […]
Under the rainbow rays
Dathini Mzayiya‘s new exhibition Onder die reёnboog strale (Under the rainbow rays […]
Dr Satan’s Echo Chamber
Reggae, technology and the diaspora… Louis Chude-Sokei documents the transatlantic (un)making of […]
Do Right Women: Black Women, Eroticism and Classic Blues
By Kalamu ya Salaam 1. I’m going to show you […]
Somewhere between a scream and a lullaby
In a city where the boundaries between life and death are laid […]
It Begins with a Place
t would be a very idiosyncratic Harlem! Years ago when I was a teenager I did a course where they had us make maps of places, highlighting what drops out just based on personal experience of a place. I think of this book very much like that – a personal map of the places I went or that caught my eye.