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Author: Chronic

Penpoints, Gunpoints, and Dreams:
A history of creative writing instruction in East Africa

From the earnest hustle of our elders in writing during the 1960s to the contemporary dreams of ubiquitous hustler writers

“Angazi, but I’m sure”: A Raw Académie Session

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.

Yahoo Boy No Laptop

The New Thing: Part II*

Shoki Master

Jollof Diaries – A letter from the frontline

Blame Me On History

The Sahara Is Not A Boundary

How To Cook Your Husband The African Way

A Letter from a Homeless Prodigal

Maggic Cube

No Congo, No Technology

Second Transition

In Bond We Trust?

Nearly a decade on from the worst postcolonial turmoil that saw their currency devalued by thousands of percentage points, Zimbabweans have had to brace themselves as the government introduced another face-saving tender.

The Hunger Games

Dear President Museveni

Radical Rudeness

Grandmothers Teaching: A view from South Africa

Between: The state and Bhut’ Joe, the frequency and the future

An exchange between Julie Nxadi and Asher Gamedze unravels the state of order, disorder and disarray in the realm of the militarised, polarised institutions otherwise known as South African universities

Pan African Activism Meets Mamdanisation

ALL I CAN SAY FOR NOW

Bread of Life

Calabar Winch

African Cookbooks and Excess Luggage

How to Wear a Kitchen

THE CHRONIC, APRIL 2017

Rented Grave: Looking beyond the rural-urban dichotomy

“Angazi, but I’m sure”: A Raw Académie Session

Fufu Pot: A Truth Hard to Swallow

Nollywood Kiss

The Second German Chronic is Here

PASS landing at the CiC Library, Cairo

brinjals

You Can’t Get Lost in the Samoosa Triangle*

POLITRICKS IN THE STADIUM

SOMEWHERE NEAR THE BEGINNING OF THE MATCH

FOOTBALL CANNOT GO FASTER THAN POLITICS

Marikana

The Complete Gentleman

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