NATIONAL HEROES ACRE II & III
National Heroes Acre II Photographs by Jekesai Njikizanava [hr] National Heroes Acre II by Brian Chikwa Sometimes you take off because you don’t want to still be around when people come back to their senses. Knock-kneed, I was never built for running, but I knew that you run faster when racing other people than when […]
Short Review – The Year of the Rat
Year of the Rat Marc Anthony Richardson FC2/ University of Alabama Press, 2017 Released to high critical acclaim but scant attention last year, Marc Anthony Richardson’s Year of the Rat is a slim novel excavating the inheritance of generational trauma, violence, economic struggle, and institutional racism that defines much of contemporary life in the US. […]
10 Paragraphs of Music Criticism
Kodwo Eshun discusses selected paragraphs of music criticism, taking in Kim Gordon’s Art Forum essays, Philip Brophy’s 100 Modern Soundtracks, writing by Dave Tompkins and more, from Off The Page 2011 at the Playhouse Theatre in Whitstable. Talk: Kodwo Eshun discusses ten paragraphs of music criticism from Sound and Music on Vimeo.
Frantz Fanon’s Uneven Ribs
Taban Lo Liyong is the author of several books of poetry including Frantz Fanon’s Uneven Ribs and Another Nigger Dead. He has also published some collections of essays, the most recent being Images of Women in Folktales and Short Stories of Africa. He spoke to Sam Raditlhalo (circa 1997, when he was still a professor of […]
Colossal KOUROUMA
par Abdourahman Waberi 1. Oracle Au physique, un colosse à l’étroit dans sa carcasse, une tête ronde bien soudée sur son tronc, des yeux narquois parfois ensommeillés, d’autres fois tout en vif mouvement.