Marikana
On 16 August 2012, the South African Police Service opened fire on a crowd of striking mineworkers at Marikana, killing 34 and wounding dozens of others. Loyiso Mkhize goes back in time to the site of the massacre, seconds before the first shot has been fired, and imagines it not only as a fight against […]
Screaming Through the Galaxy
Jamaican-born poet, musician and visual artist Femi Dawkins a.k.a. Jimmy Rage, explores pain and destruction through the passage of time and space: “We cruise the highways and byways,” of memory and imagined futures. This graphic story features in the Chronic (August 2016), an edition in which we explore ideas around mythscience, science fiction and graphic […]
Climbing- A Letter from San Francisco
By Nick Hadikwa Mwaluko Loss is life’s only language. Moving from mask to face to soul, the journey we share. Anyway, got this job online after going broke for a week and not eating for something like four days straight. I hate fishing for food from the garbage waiting on my next pay stub, so I […]
The Papers
In a place — geographically, mentally, physically — where everything is guided by violence, international humanitarian aid organisations seem to do little more than catalogue, file and ultimately silence the voices of those most affected. Writing with unrestrained anger and deep sadness, Joséphine Imani’s* job application cover letter, addressed to the humanitarian aid industry, challenges […]
The Mission of Forgetting
Joshua Craze offers a sobering analysis of the fantasy that is the United Nations mandate and presence in South Sudan, where civil war is the order of every day. The organisation’s peacekeeping mission, Craze argues, is based on the fundamental logic of the UN’s functioning: to recreate the image of its membership wherever it goes […]