Folk Dancing For Beginners
Karen Press (He sets the tone) In my country the president rises from a bed of red carnations and then the children sit down each with a goldfish on their desk. Their task is to teach it to swim better than it does already. At the end of the year they’ll have to have to […]
Do Right Women: Black Women, Eroticism and Classic Blues
[hr] By Kalamu ya Salaam 1. I’m going to show you women, honey, how to cock it on the wall Now you can snatch it, you can break it, you can hang it on the wall Throw it out the window, see if you can catch it ‘fore it fall —Louise Johnson […]
Evidence
Brent Hayes Edwards The cell is four meters long and two meters wide. The walls and floor are lined with white tile, gleaming in the half-light. There is no furniture, but the far half of the floor is elevated, about a meter high—an abstraction of a bed, a chair, a table. The judas hole in […]
Somewhere between a scream and a lullaby
In a city where the boundaries between life and death are laid bare, artists are birthing new spaces for dreaming ‘other ways of breathing’. Stacy Hardy reports from Kinshasa. Art is the strength to make reality say what it would not have been able to say by itself or, at least, what it might too […]
Sortir de la grande nuit. Essai sur l’Afrique décolonisée
Norbert N. Ouendji interviews Achille Mbembe before Afropolitanism (circa 2010) « Sortir de la grande nuit. Essai sur l’Afrique décolonisée ». Tel est le titre du dernier livre d’Achille Mbembe qui paraît aux Éditions La Découverte à Paris le 14 octobre. J’ai eu le privilège de lire de manière attentive cet ouvrage riche et très documenté écrit en […]