I Smoked A Spliff With Jesus Christ
I smoked a spliff with Jesus Christ last night. Then leaned over and stuck my eyes inside his soul. The father let me take a journey through his pain, and beside the tears of Judas I saw my own. “J” said: He and man built a nation in my mind. Where God and Gods ruled […]
Who Killed Christopher Okigbo
1.Night/Outside At sea. Mythic times There is a storm. We see wooden ships clinging wildly to the waves like grains of rice, their sails in tatters. Our view of this scene is only possible periodically, when lightening strikes; otherwise the screen is pitch black. There is one flag ship ahead of the others; this is […]
What’s Next
Socially conscious rhymes and hipster swag; sexy dance moves and magical mbira; traditional Shona sounds and contemporary jazz skills; rock, traditional Japanese, Colombian cumbia music and electro…the recent Harare International Festival of the Arts (HIFA) got bodies from different racial and social walks of life, some even from as far as Europe, the U.S. and […]
Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989)
Photographs by Rotimi Fani-Kayode. These photos first appeared in print in Chimurenga Vol. 4: Black Gays & Mugabes (May ’03)
We Used To Dance
Sandile Dikeni reviews We Used To Dance, an album from Andile Yenana. Listen. Digger Jazz, is my brother. Literally and figuratively. I really met him one crispy Sunday morning in the Karoo. I was about ten. It was a beautiful winter morning. I know it was morning because, although the sun was shining, one could observe […]