“…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
Graves in the Water by Salah Yousif (Propeller Berlin, 2023)
Poetry collection by Salah Yousif, born and raised in Sudan, based in Berlin since 1970s. Salah worked in various fields, most recently dealing in antiques and African art. He has been writing poems in Arabic since his youth; they have been translated into German, English, and Danish. He has published five volumes of poetry and contributed to three other books. Yousif lives and works in Berlin.