“…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)
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front cover:
Tosh by Steve Gordon
back cover:
Kippie by Basil Breakey
Chimurenga Chronic: The Invention of Zimbabwe (April 2018)
This issue of the Chronic writes Zimbabwe beyond white fears and the Africa-South conundrum. Its a story that cannot be told without the music that has driven, documented and revolted against it.
With new work by Kudzanai Chiurai on the cover, inside read takes by Panashe Chigumadzi, Netsayi Chigwendere, Chirikure Chirikure, Brian Chikwava, Rudo Mudiwa, Percy Zvomuya, Nora Chipaumire, Nonstikelelo Mutiti, Clapperton Mavhunga, Bernard Matambo, Zenzele Ndebele, Ranga Mberi and many many more.
The accompanying books magazine, XIBAARU TEERE YI (Chronic Books in Wolof) asks the urgent question: What can African Writers Learn from Cheikh Anta Diop? The cover is a graphic homage to Diop’s Taxaw. Texts from Boubacar Boris Diop, Khadim Ndiaye, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Ibrahima Wane, Ayesha Haruna Atta, Mamadou Diallo, and more