“…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
Reading Ecologies: Transforming Publishing in Africa calls for insurgent publishing, rooted in the political, aesthetic and epistemic struggles of independent publishers from the African continent and diaspora.
MANAGING EDITORS: Esé Emmanuel and Nadine Siegert. CONTRIBUTIONS BY: Naddya Adhiambo Oluoch-Olunya, Jeffery Atuobi, TJ Benson, Mongo Beti, Ntone Edjabe, Katharina Fink, Joseph Fometeu, Wanjeri Gakuru, Maryam Kazeem, Ambroise Kom, Serge D. Kouam, Queenzela Mokoena, Nashilongweshipwe Mushaandja, Nyakallo Phamuli, Mario Pissara, Omphemetse Ramatlhatse, Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún, Ulrich Talla Wamba. FUNDED BY: Goethe-Institut Nigeria as part of the project “We Make Books”, managed and coordinated by Esé Emmanuel and Nadine Siegert. The workshop “Co-Publishing Art Books in Africa” was supported by Goethe-Institut Kamerun and Thekla Worch-Ambara.