WHO’S CALLING?
Parker Bilal is the pen-name of Jamal Mahjoub. Born in London and brought up in Khartoum, Sudan, Mahjoub originally trained as a geologist and has written seven critically acclaimed literary novels. WHO’S CALLING? She was sifting through the discount bins in the supermarket on her way home from the library, looking for something […]
Who Killed Christopher Okigbo
1.Night/Outside At sea. Mythic times There is a storm. We see wooden ships clinging wildly to the waves like grains of rice, their sails in tatters. Our view of this scene is only possible periodically, when lightening strikes; otherwise the screen is pitch black. There is one flag ship ahead of the others; this is […]
Guns, Girls and Gentle People
The Afflicted Yard proudly proclaims that it is “A non-registered member of the Jamaica Tourist Board since 1999.” This was one of Peter Dean Rickard‘s early experiments: a brash, bold way of announcing his intentions to reshape our ideas of beauty, violence and humanity – from Jamaica. Since that time, Rickards has kept his promise, and […]
Pulp!
In the Indian hinterland, crimes of passion happen every single day, and perhaps nowhere are they so lovingly archived in all their recreated technical glory as Crime & Detective. Like many other Indians, Kai Friese found it hard to make a train journey without the pulpy lubricant offered by the magazine; unlike any others, he took his […]
Hauling Humans: a tricky business for trans-border truckers
Veteran long-distance driver, Aden, has been witness and participant in the business of smuggling people around Southern Africa. He lets Sean Christie in on some of the basics. “That’s funny man,” says Aden, still shaking his head about it. “I thought you were Migration Services.” That isn’t the funny thing, or all of it. Aden […]