“…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
How to Remember Your Dreams by Amr Ezzat, in Arabic (Kayfa ta, 2019)
Do you really want to remember your dreams? I often wish I could forget my dreams, perhaps because I sometimes remember them so much that I get angry at people for what they did to me. I feel sad about what happened as if it happened all over again last night, or I feel the unfortunate joy of having a moment that fascinated me, of thinking I actually answered some work emails or finally sent my clothes to the dry cleaners. I remember in detail how my death happened more than once, when perhaps the only benefit of dying, whether we go to heaven or hell, or nowhere, is that we won't have to worry about it anymore. Until then, what I sometimes want, as I get into bed and remember my day, is to suddenly discover that it's nothing but dreams. I think about how I'd like to write them down, and then open my eyes to the world and to other dreams.
Amr Ezzat is an Egyptian writer who studied engineering and philosophy. He worked as an engineer, then a journalist, then a legal researcher, and as an article writer for several newspapers and periodicals. He remembers his dreams well.