“…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
WAITHOOD magazine
Waithood Magazine is a periodical that foregrounds emerging contemporary African artists and fugitive epistemologies to comprehend the complexities of the human experience through a maroonage perspective. The publication engages with questions of Black spatial thinking, emerging at the intersection of youth agency, urban infrastructure and contemporary arts. The project uses publishing and exhibition making as means of investigation, and experiments with new methodologies for understanding and intervening in the art world, oriented by the desire of imagining and rendering liberated futures for Black societies and territories.
