The Bite and the Embrace
A Letter from Malabo by Recaredo Silebo Boturu. I’m writing from here in the city of Clarence, or, if you prefer it, Santa Isabel, or, if it’s more comfortable, the city of Malabo. I am here in this tiny city surrounded by greenery and filled with shantytowns and apartment buildings, entrenched and choking from the heat […]
The Face: Cartography of the Void
Chris Abani has lived in several places and been assumed to be of numerous and widely varying origins, ethnicities and parentage. In this excerpt from his memoir, he pauses to trace the map of being in the realm of “neither, nor”. Call OTHER BROTHER: Hey, G. says you’re asking for face jokes. ME: Not really. […]
New Trade Routes
This features in the new Chronic, an edition in which we ask: what if maps were made by Africans for their own use, to understand and make visible their own realities or imaginaries? How does it shift the perception we have of ourselves and how we make life on this continent? To view […]
After Oil Water
This features in the new Chronic, an edition in which we ask: what if maps were made by Africans for their own use, to understand and make visible their own realities or imaginaries? How does it shift the perception we have of ourselves and how we make life on this continent? To view in […]
African War Machines
This map features in the new Chronic, an edition in which we ask: what if maps were made by Africans for their own use, to understand and make visible their own realities or imaginaries? How does it shift the perception we have of ourselves and how we make life on this continent? To view […]