“…The struggle of black people inevitably appear in an intensely cultural form because the social formation in which their distinct political traditions are now manifest has constructed the arena of politics on ground overshadowed by centuries of metropolitan capitalist development, thereby denying them recognition as legitimate politics. Blacks conduct a class struggle in and through race. The BC of race and class cannot be empirically separated, the class character of black struggles is not a result of the fact that blacks are predominantly proletarian, thought this is true…”- (Frank Talk Staff Writers in ‘Azania Salutes Tosh’ – circa 1981)
front cover:
Tosh by Steve Gordon
back cover:
Kippie by Basil Breakey
Chimurenga 09: Conversations in Luanda & other Graphic Stories (June 2006) Digital
This issue of Chimurenga uses comics as a thematic coherence in its insistence on art as interrogator and creator.
It features a rephrasing of Jean-Michel Basquiat, and new works by Yvan Alagbe, Jose Eduardo Agualusa, Nikhil Singh, Karen Boswall , Ho Che Anderson, Danijel Zezelj, Nicolene Louw, Orijit Sen , Lance Tooks, Sandra Brewster and many others.
