“…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
Uhuru Portia Phalafala
Uhuru Portia Phalafala is a Senior Lecturer in English at Stellenbosch University and holds a PhD in English Literature. Her research interests include critical race studies, decoloniality, and Black radical traditions. She explores the practices of being alongside ancestors, land, and nature, which has resulted in essays, poetry, and a sonic documentary. Phalafala is the author of Mine Mine Mine (2023) and Keorapetse Kgositsile & the Black Arts Movement (2024), and is a contributor to The Creative Arts: On Practice, Making and Meaning.
