“…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
Jabu Goes to Joburg, A Chimurenga Fotonovela (2025)
Jabu Goes to Joburg, A Chimurenga Fotonovela originally released in 2016 as a supplement of a Chimurenga Chronic, returns to print as a standalone edition, ready to be rediscovered.
Written and directed by Achal Prabhala, with photography by Masimba Sasa and Dean Hutton, the publication, the story is an explosive thriller of lust and ambition, of guns, girls, and ballpoint pens, following Jabu on her journey to the big city, an adventure where love, friendship, trouble, courage, and humor intertwine, alongside with yoga and fighting lessons that propel Jabu toward her breakthrough.
“This is not the message-oriented fotonovelas and comics circulating the continent, then and now, with instructions on family planning, birth control and the like,” writes Euridice Kala one of the actors, in the afterword, “this is a story of emancipation, of intertwined destinies and unexpected alliances, all converging on unforeseeable ends.”
Produced by Pam Dlungwana, designed by Rakesh Khanna/Blaft Publications, with Euridice Kala, Tiyiselani Kubayi, Phindile Cindi, Suraj Yengde, Meghan Judge, Nicky Falkof, Pule, Francis Burger, Nana Zajiji, Dorothee Kreutzfeldt, Gilles Baro, Achal Prabhala, Dean Hutton, Skhumbuzo Mbixane, Sibusiso ‘The General’ Nxumalo, and Isabel Hofmeyr in the cast.
Size: 193mm x 270mm
Pages: 44pp (plus cover)
Printing: black & white and red, Munken Pure 90gsm with Risograph
Language: English
ISBN: 978-1-0370-9358-6