Alex killers are ‘proud’ of attacks on foreigners
Gcina Ntsaluba reports from where Wally Serote wrote: “When I lie on your breast to rest, something tells me/You are bloody cruel./Alexandra, hell/What have you done to me?” Mphakamiseni Ndlovu said he was proud of being part of an armed mob that terrorised, beat and killed dozens of foreign nationals in Alexandra township in Johannesburg, where since 11 May xenophobic attacks […]
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 […]
Kangsen Feka Wakai Can’t Breathe
Transition are calling for responses to the latest sweep of murders by police of unarmed black people in north America. Here, a contribution by Kangsen Feka Wakai. I can’t breathe because I watched the news and saw myself, crawling on a pot-holed filled street from Monrovia to Conakry by way of Freetown. I am the other. I named my last born […]
Midway Between Silence and Speech
[hr] The art and incarnation of Justine Gaga explores the multi-layered and emotionally complex experiences of the unidentified, adrift in the megalopolis of beyond, in which bonds between people fall away and desire and need are commodified. As Adeline Chapelle* writes, in Gaga’s “making of lonely crowds” there are no easy lamentations. [hr] Justine Gaga moves in a […]
Exitour as Rhizome
“Why did we embark on this insane trip?” Having journeyed together from Douala to Dakar, Goddy Leye, LucFosther Diop, Justine Gaga, Dunja Herzog, Achillekà Komguen and Alioum Moussa* report on the questions, lessons, and collaborations of the inaugural Exitour. It all began when a group of young, talented artists were selected and invited for a one-month stay at the ArtBakery […]