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 […]
The Adventures of Dr Evil in Dakar
President Abdoulaye Wade recently claimed intellectual property rights of the “African Renaissance” monument under construction in the Senegalese capital city. However, as these unedited, never-published transcripts of a conversation between Dr Evil and his son, Scott Powers, illustrate, the genesis of the project is straight outta Masters of the Universe. The conversation took place […]
Not Yet Uhuru
Ugandan journalist and activist, Kalundi Serumaga, reflects on his time as a political refugee in Kenya during the 1970s and 80s, and says the violence that followed the 2007 elections had been long coming. Poverty is the worst form of violence. A person raised in poverty often suffers a sense of shame and anger […]