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 […]
What Follows? The State of Black Collectivity in the Year of the Sheep
Continuing to sing a vital and urgent message of black collectivity, Harmony Holiday writes from New York critiquing the state of things now and the shape of jazz to come. Here we are at the start of the Year of the Sheep, and may we no longer be martyrs to our own following. In 1977, filmmaker Charles Burnett, wrote and directed […]
Dispatches from Beirut
Comic artist and musician Mazen Kerbaj keeps a visual diary of a week in Lebanon’s embattled capital. For more of Kerbaj’s works visit mazenkerblog.blogspot.com and/or www.kerbaj.com. This visual diary features in the Media & Technology section of Chimurenga Vol. 16: The Chimurenga Chronic (available here). Set in the week 18-24 May 2008, the Chronic, imagines the newspaper as a producer of time – a time-machine […]
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 […]
The Alternative is at Hand
[hr] Working within the black radical tradition, Fred Moten and Stefano Harney frame a rethink of concepts such as policy and planning, critique and study, debt and credit, and governance and logistics – they invite us to imagine and realise social life otherwise. Stacy Hardy spoke to them about the globalisation and professionalisation of education and the possibility of […]