“…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
Iwalewa Books
iwalewa books is a publishing house for art, discourse and archives.
Their publications are dedicated to aesthetic discourses, the politics of collecting & archiving and pleasure politics. Creating books is an aesthetic and collective endeavor - most of the volumes are produced in collaboration with cultural workers, artists, collectives, activists and academics, mainly from the Global South.
