Threatening the Hormonal Stability of Imbeciles
Born in Honduras in 1957 and raised in El Salvador, Horacio Castellanos Moya is part of a new generation of South American novelists who have been catapulted into the public eye (and into translation) following the Roberto Bolaño craze that gripped North America. Stacy Hardy interviewed him. Like his contemporary Bolaño, Moya’s gritty urbanism and graphic political violence challenges Western perceptions of a Latin American […]
Dance of the Infidels presents: Nollywood Confidential
starring: Zeb Ejiro, Ajoke Jacobs, Tunde Kelani, and Aquila Njamah Andy learned it the hard way—selling your soul to the devil stinks. He didn’t mean for his wife to be killed in a satanic sacrifice. He just wanted to live the high life—get a girlfriend, a nice house, and a car (or two—a Mercedes and […]
Authority Stealing: The business of crime writing in Kenya, India and Nigeria
Kenya In pursuit of some scriptwriter talent, Billy Kahora discovers that academic mantras, conservative world views and hand-me down observations stunt a rendering of the true grit that must be lived to be imagined in a Nairobi noir. ‘The cinema like the detective story, makes it possible to experience without danger all the […]
A Fieldguide for Female Interrogators
by Coco Fusco (illustrations: Dan Turner) This graphic story previously appeared in print in Chimurenga 15: The Curriculum is Everything. Available here. Images copyright ©2008 by Coco Fusco. Reprinted with the permission of Coco Fusco and Seven Stories Press.
Is Biko’s legacy being besmirched?
In October 2002, 25 years since Stephen Bantu Biko‘s death, poet James Matthews penned a letter questioning the segregation and infighting amongst political parties and “groupings” who professed “to hold true to his commitment.” We reread his missive, more than ten year later, as battles over Biko continue to rage. This letter first appeared in […]