“…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
I Love You Too by Kemang Wa Lehulere (Manchester International Festival, 2021)
"Tasked with writing love letters, a number of established writers sat with over 100 Manchester residents. They engaged in a dialogue that inspired the writing of letters which the participants could take home. These love letters were not necessarily required to be written to a person, but were open-ended towards objects, places and memories ... the aspiration is to paint a social portrait through prose and poetic form by way of public declarations of intimacy." Kemang Wa Lehulere.