Motshumi’s Country
For more than three decades, Mogorosi Motshumi has drawn comics, cartoons and illustrations for an array of South African newspaper and legendary literary magazines; survived solitary confinement under the apartheid regime; pushed against prejudiced editors; and lived through the transition from pre- to post-apartheid cartooning. He continues to create works that are playful, powerful and […]
It’s only a matter of acceleration now
by Binyavanga Wainaina 1. I am about to interview Youssou N’Dour. I am sitting in the office of his TV station. 2. This week in Dakar, you learned to manage your breathing swimming in the water of the Atlantic, the lifeguard showed you how he spends his whole day at the tiny stony beach near […]
New Bush, Old Ghosts
Cyber crime is a burgeoning business in West Africa, despite often primitive infrastructure, intermittent electricity supply and Western assumptions that Africans surely could not be capable of the third largest bank heist in history. Louis Chude-Sokei speaks out, graphically remixed by 3bute. Louis Chude-Sokei‘s story can be read in full here and was originally a feature in Chimurenga […]
When You Kill Us, We Rule
Audre Lorde‘s poem, “The Black Unicorn”, is woven into rhetorical charcoal drawings by Sandra Brewster, inspired by the conversation between Fela Anikulapo Kuti and Keziah Jones. “When You Kill Us, We Rule” was originally published in print as part of Chimurenga 9: Conversations In Luanda And Other Graphic Stories. Available here.
Sketches of ‘Trane
Atang Tshikare is a artist and illustrator based in Cape Town. Ben Verghese is a writer based between London and Cape Town. This is an excerpt from a review in Chronic Books, (December 2013 edition). To read in full, order in print or a PDF version from our online shop or visit your nearest dealer. [button link=”http://www.chimurenga.co.za/product-category/shop-items/the-chronic” color=”red”]Order […]