“…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
The Way of Companions by Ayi Kwei Armah (PER ANKH, 2018)
The Text: Of Africa's oldest ways of life and death, there are two. One, the royal road, irresistibly attractive to power-addicts, is lined with hierarchies, priests, armies and bureaucracies. It gave Plato his liberal model of the slave-owning aristocracy, the template for imperial, colonial and apartheid systems of social inequality.