Dispatches from Beirut
Comic artist and musician Mazen Kerbaj keeps a visual diary of a week in Lebanon’s embattled capital. For more of Kerbaj’s works visit mazenkerblog.blogspot.com and/or www.kerbaj.com. This visual diary features in the Media & Technology section of Chimurenga Vol. 16: The Chimurenga Chronic (available here). Set in the week 18-24 May 2008, the Chronic, imagines the newspaper as a producer of time – a time-machine […]
In the Listening Room with Neo Muyanga
This Thursday (January 15), Pan African Space Station present “Revolting Songs”, a concert-lecture from Neo Muyanga which forms part of the Stories about Music in Africa series. Keeping time, we return to Neo’s listening room. Intro by Stacy Hardy. Neo Muyanga is always counting. Even when he walks. He counts his paces. He counts the steps. He keeps time. He listens to the beat of […]
The African Renaissance Hoer-o-scope for Politicians
by Zebulon Dread ARIES Your best bet at survival is not a crash course in intelligence, because frankly, you weren’t born with it, but rather a quiet visit to the sangomas where you must plead forgiveness from the ancestors for being so stupid and pledge to sacrifice – no! not a cow, you idiot, they are worshipped by […]
Kangsen Feka Wakai Can’t Breathe
Transition are calling for responses to the latest sweep of murders by police of unarmed black people in north America. Here, a contribution by Kangsen Feka Wakai. I can’t breathe because I watched the news and saw myself, crawling on a pot-holed filled street from Monrovia to Conakry by way of Freetown. I am the other. I named my last born […]
Beyond Oppression-Liberation-Maendeleo
by Parselelo Kantai It may have been the economist David Ndii who coined the term “the Chlorophyll Zone”. Recalling the tragic fallacy of centralised economic planning in Kenya in the early years of uhuru, Ndii describes how the drafters of that touchstone of economic planning in Kenya, Sessional Paper Number 10 of 1965, divvied up the country into a hierarchy of six […]