“…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
Palestine in My Hear by Pitika Ntuli (Botsotso, 2025)
Pitika Ntuli, South African sculptor, poet, writer, and academic who's work explores African spirituality, identity, and the legacy of colonialism through a multidisciplinary practice that blends art, language, and activism, writes Palestine in My Heart, a series of poems dedicated to the Children of Gaza who, in the words of the author "clutched crayons not weapons, and hugged dolls as the walls collapsed."