“…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
La sphère de Planck by Lionel Manga ( Ròt-Bò-Krik , 2022)
That evening in Kribi, a Cameroonian seaside resort, a high dignitary of the regime inaugurated his new villa.
The story of the event is written like a fractal: a multiplicity of characters meet there and tell each other. In the middle of them, A55, freshly returned to the country after thirty years spent in France. sent on an economic analysis mission, observes the political and social decline of contemporary Cameroon.
Through streams of thoughts from the various protagonists, it is the very history of the country since independence that emerges. An immense and complex world in reduction, which does not hold any more but by words, resulting from a library as scientific as poetic.