San Pedro V: The Hope I Hope
Identity, politics, rock ‘n roll, soap operas and sentimental songs; humor, hysteria and sincerity. Like a gender-errant Jimi Hendrix, Tracey Rose flips the biblical Battle of Jericho to confront history, oppression and injustice with a generous act of imagination that tears down walls and crosses boundaries of culture, language and difference. In 2005 Rose decided […]
The Life and Death of Media
There are thousands of people who are paid to invent and publicise new media. But there is no one whose job it is to describe media that don’t work any more and have collapsed in humiliating, money-losing ways. Science fiction author and founder of the Dead Media Project, Bruce Sterling does the dirty work. Some […]
The Death of Jacob Dlamini
Political analyst, Jacob Dlamini, argues that the death of another so named in the hotbed of resistance that was the Vaal Triangle in the mid-1980s, is a stark and sobering reminder that the failure of our collective imagination remains, nearly half a century on, the measure of our fledgling democracy. Jacob Dlamini died a gruesome […]
The Test
Read the following text carefully: “Know thyself, thus says the quotation and thus I tell you myself!” says SOCRATES. To whom belongs the quotation? Science fiction writer João Barreiros takes the test. José Esteves wakes up with all the psychosomatic symptoms that come with this sort of day. Sickness. Asthenia. Cold sweat. Sensing […]
Chicken Core: The Rise of Kings
SporeDust is a young animation studio, still a rare species in the jungle of Nollywood. They tell the tale of Chicken Core: The rise of kings, directed by Oricha Aliyu. As the studio tell it: Chicken Core is a Nigerian animated feature which follows the adventures of a group of chicken warriors in […]