L’impossible n’est pas Camerounais!
Kangsen Feka Wakai traces personal lineage, and the often blurred and disputed spaces, spoken tongues and hybrid forms in which national identity is claimed, contested, co-opted and celebrated in the country of his birth. The wrinkled folds that encircled my maternal grandfather’s eyes did not divulge much – they thickened when he smiled, but assumed a […]
Visioncarnation
by Orijit Sen Orijit Sen is a graphic designer and comic creator based in New Delhi. He is co-founder of People Tree. Visioncarnation previously appeared in print as part of Chimurenga Vol.9 (Conversations in Luanda and Other Graphic Stories…) which is available from our online store.
The Black Guru
Gael Reagon meets the spirit formerly known as Zebulon Dread. On Friday 18 July, when most South Africans enact their humanity through a ritualised act of charity under the rubric of Mandela Day, the indomitable art iconoclast Zebulon Dread, purveyor of the self-published satirical magazine Hei Voetsek!, returns to public life and consciousness after a […]
The cosmic lives and afterlives of Zebulon Dread
by Achal Prabhala Part 1: Elliot Josephs Elliot Josephs was born in 1958 to an ordinarily dysfunctional family in Kensington, a working-class coloured neighbourhood between Maitland and Goodwood in Cape Town. When he was four, his parents, who worked as labourers in the city, were allotted a home in Bonteheuwel, in the Cape Flats, to […]
11 YRS OF DEMONCRAZY!!!
11 YRS OF DEMONCRAZY!!! O nee Got.!! Got!!! Got!! ! I can’t help it. Scream!!! Aaaaaaaaaaaamnrrrrrggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!! I could not Motherfucken Ma-se Poes resist it. I hate this magazine. I love this magazine. This magazine gives me nightmares. Eleven years of Demon-crazy. Demo crazy!!! 11 years of freedom need the DREAD anal-isis. Deciphering the profanity of […]