“Three generations of white South African men were bound together at that table. Vermuelen was the first generation. He defined Africa, made it safe for Basson to defile. I was the last generation, the last to grow up in segregated neighborhoods. Between us was the silent photograph of Wouter Basson. Like a distant father, Basson was absent at the dining table.” – Henk Rossouw (Hole in the White ‘Hood). Also Mahmood Mamdani on Bantu Education at UCT, Gael Reagon on sisterhood, Binyavanga Wainaina on dis-covering Kenya, Gaston Zossou on African intellectuals and more…
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Strange Fruit by Lewis Allen
Waithood Magazine Issue 1 - On Rest (Waithood, SU, Lda, 2024)
WAITHOOD Magazine explores the intersection between contemporary art, the urban landscape, and the youth experience, interpreting exhibition making and publishing as exciting formats of putting these interests into practice.
The first issue presents an avenue through which Black artists, writers and makers imagine futures otherwise and do the required labour to muster a real, living and ever-present black vernacular which is ancient, young, queer and on the move!
Departing from initial investments in understanding the present conditions black artists are expected to thrive, the magazine project adopts a contextualizing tone, in that it takes advantage of a critical approach to notions of time (linear and sequential), offering multiple readings of the present condition, considering not only distorted notion of past but also the role of silences, memory and nostalgia on imagining futures otherwise.
Dwelling in most of the cases with the inherited settler colonial infrastructures, the magazine offers a counter reading of the ‘worlding,’ reducing all kinds of normalizations as a mere product of a white imagination that can be grasped in the concept of modernity.
With contributions from - Ana Raquel Machava, Pauline Buhlebenkosi Ndhlovu, Nombuso Mathibela, Neec Nonso, Lolo Arziki, Usher Nyambi, Marilú Mapengo Namoda, Chonga Pessana, Clio Koopman, Johnson Nhacula, Ildefonso Colaço, Onyinye Alheri, Banji Chona, Jean-Claude Nazarii
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