Corpse Exhibition
In Hassan Blassim’s short story, The Corpse Exhibition, terrorism is no longer reliant on acts of violence but rather their aesthetic presentation and its transmission via media. The display of corpses throughout a city must be achieved purposefully, with subtlety, elegance. These are the rules. This graphic story features in the Chronic (August 2016), an edition […]
Monumental Failures
Dominique Malaquais reports from Cameroon on the active objection of one ‘Combattant’ to the negation of many, cast in stone. Decrying these monumental symbols to the least salubrious of colonial exploits, his rebellion is most fitting in a country that stands on ceremony other than its own. His name is Mboua Massock. He […]
The Muezzin and I
By Rustum Kozain Adamu One night at a local hangout in my neighbourhood, I joke to Adamu, a musician I occasionally bump into, that I am leaving early to go and do battle with my demons. It’s only half a joke. He laughs and asks how many demons I face nightly. Thousands, I say. Whenever […]
Time to Bleed
An extended conversation between Aryan Kaganof and Walter Mignolo What I don’t want to do, more than anything in the world, is bore anybody and scare them off with all that stuff about his being an esteemed professor, foremost authority on decolonization, blah blah shit. Fuck that. Walter’s important because of what he says […]
Why Ethiopia won the World Cup in 2034
Deji Bryce Olukotun recalls the arc of history-in-the-making that results in a meteoric rise in the fortunes of Ethiopia and more pertinently, its national football squad. 2016 The Ethiopian national team finishes with its worst showing ever in Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers, scoring no goals and securing no points. Across the seas, US […]