The Story of an African Farm
The Chronic visits wine farms across the Boland area of the Western Cape and finds that little has changed since the strikes of 2012. Donovan Ward paints a visual report. Donovan Ward‘s painting features in the August 2013 edition of the Chronic. Available here in print or as a PDF. The issue also features reportage, creative non-fiction, autobiography, satire, analysis, photography […]
Mining for Minds
Jean-Pierre Bekelo presents a film financing project offering payment in raw materials: “Mining for Minds”. Jean-Pierre Obama Bekolo is a Cameroonian filmmaker and theorist. His films include Les Saignantes and Le Président.
Chronic Apartheid Litigation
Ronald Suresh Roberts argues that litigation in US courts against multinational companies who did business with apartheid South Africa distracts from, and distorts, the insidious injustice that has seen local mega-beneficiaries escape prosecution for their crimes against humanity. “Power means never having to raise your voice.” Despite the intentions of its sponsors, the New York […]
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 […]
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 […]