Masquerade
Michael Jackson alive in Nigeria Featuring the maverick Ejiogbe Twins Photographed by Owen Logan Told by Uzor Maxim Uzoatu What Nigeria offers in the Michael Jackson business stares you in the face. And here in black and white is our unique scheme. Believe it when I say we struck like tropical noonday thunder! The craft bearing […]
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 […]
Obi’s Nightmare
by Jamón y Queso translated by David Shook This comic also appears in the Chronic (July 2014). The edition gives focus to graphic stories and blends illustrations, photography, written analysis, infographics, interviews, letters and more to speak of everyday complexities in the Africa in which we live. Contributors include Binyawanga Wainaina, Native […]
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 […]