Archie Shepp’s Shirt Suggests
By Dominique Malaquais and Cédric Vincent The moment has stayed with every person who witnessed it. Archie Shepp improvising live on the street, surrounded by hundreds of onlookers in a trance induced by his otherworldly beats. The place: Algiers. The occasion: PANAF, the first Panafrican Cultural Festival, organised in 1969 by the Algerian government. Tens of […]
Jihad as a Form of Struggle in the Resistance to Apartheid in South Africa
By Na’eem Jeenah Although Muslims form about 2 per cent of the South African population, the community and its individuals played significant roles in South African society for the past 350 years. By the middle of the 20th century, as resistance to apartheid intensified, a number of Muslims were in prominent positions in various resistance organisations. […]
Dispossessed Vigils
Mourning and Regeneration in Inner-City Johannesburg[1] By Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon “Only the conscious horror of destruction creates the correct relationship with the dead: unity with them because we, like them, are the victims of the same condition and the same disappointed hope.” – Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno “Home is an appropriated space. It does not exist […]
City Building in Post-Conflict, Post-Socialist Luanda
Burying the Past with Phantasmagorias of the Future By Anne Pitcher and Marissa Mo After food and water, everybody needs shelter. At least for the last century, politicians on the left or the right, in the East or the South, have vowed to supply it. The delivery of one million homes seems to […]
Under Nelson Mandela Boulevard
A Story About Cape Town’s Tanzanian Stowaways By Sean Christie Images by David Southwood 15 July 2011 Cape Town city gardener Karabo Moshoeshoe’s orders were that the grass embankments around the intersection of Oswald Pirow Street and Hertzog Boulevard were to be cut again, though the routine trim wasn’t supposed to happen for another week. All […]