The Beautiful Beast
by Goddy Leye This still from Goddy Leye’s 2009 film, The Beautiful Beast, previously appeared in Chimurenga Vol.2: Discovering Home. Chimurenga are participating in the Boda Boda Lounge Project from Friday November 21 – Sunday November 23. Goddy Leye films will be screening here.
The G.Spot Protagonists
by Goddy Leye I am sitting in front of the Cologne cathedral, amazed by this architectural masterpiece. Wondering, like dozens of passers-by, how this was done without modern building materials and tools. At the foot of the cathedral is an artist miming an Egyptian sculpture, perfectly establishing connections with similar mysteries surrounding the construction of the pyramids. He is covered with silver coloured […]
Black Skin, White Ass
Hydroquinine, bleach, lime juice: take your pick. Each of them will lighten your skin and also leave you with inflammation or ochronosis or worse. How far would you go to have the best butt in town? In 21st century South Africa, Fumi May wonders why anyone would care about being fair down there. The […]
Honouring Somaliness
Binyavanga Wainaina and Diriye Osman sit down in south London to speak of honouring Somaliness, navigating the globe as a homeless writer, freedom and love. A short film by Bahareh Hosseini.
This is a pigment of my imagination
Looking like a ‘Negro’ in India and searching for a connection has provided Joshua Muyiwa with a language that is understood neither by those closest to him, nor those with whom he shares the texture of his hair. In college, all those stories I had meticulously filed away for 18 years finally had an ear. Abhishek, my femme-on-the-street-butch-in-the-sheets […]