In the launch issue Rustum Kozain muses over the cultural and alternative relations built, negotiations and dealings made as a resident of Cape Town (South Africa); Jean-Christophe Lanquetin’s SAPE Project is captured in a pictorial narrative; Gabeba Baderoon and Karen Press poetically expound on the daily traversing of the personal and the (institutional) impersonal; James Yuma investigates the intersection between religion and national narrative in the Democratic Republic of the Congo whilst Valentine Cascarino asks how would a recontextualisation of Kinshasha in Johannesburg (South Africa) fare?; Annie Paul explores the practice of death and burial rituals in postcolonial Jamaica; and Vyjayanthi Rao, Filip de Boeck and Abdou Maliq Simone discuss Kinshasa’s Invisible City and other African cities.
ISBN number: 978-0-9814272-8-7
Text: English
Editors: Ntone Edjabe and Edgar Pieterse
Publishing date: March 2010
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Contents
- Preface
- Lagos: A Pilgrimage in Notations – Chris Abani
- Of Tamarind & Cosmopolitanism – Nuruddin Farah
- Dagga – Rustum Kozain
- Urbanism beyond Architecture – Vyjayanthi Rao, in conversation with Filip de Boeck & Abdou Maliq Simone
- Sape Project: 2006 – 2009 – Jean-Christophe Lanquetin
- Johannesburg – Jyoti Mistry
- Ibadan, Soutin and the Puzzle of Bower’s Tower – Akin Adesokan
- Three Poems – Gabeba Baderoon
- Closer Than This – Karen Press
- The Book of Chameleons – José Eduardo Agualusa
- Three Women, She is Alone / Survival of the stars / 2AM transit in Addis – Allan Kolski Horwitz
- The Devil’s Comma – James Yuma
- Terror and the City – Ashraf Jamal
- Blood Money: A Douala Chronicle – Dominique Malaquais
- Quel Est L’Endroit Idéal? – Christian Hanussek and Salifou Lindou
- The Colour of the Night – Achal Prabhala
- Blood Money – Valentine Cascarino
- Koltan Kills Kids – —
- “No Grave Cannot Hold My Body Down” – Annie Paul
- Angels in Winter – Teju Cole
- Of Goats and Great Hope – Fiona Moola
- Rhythms of a Road, Voices of an Ethnographer – Vanessa Ulia Dantas e Sá
- Vocabularies of the Visceral and Expressions of Multiple Practices – Hobbs/Neustetter
- Planning for Chaos – Ismail Farouk
- D.I.Y. – Lesley Naa Norle Lokko
- Lagos Underground – Jeremy Weate
- Contributors
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