“Mandela was not the only head of state taken in by Koagne. Le king kept snapshots of himself with many a man of power, among them Mobutu Sese Seko and Denis Sassou Nguesso […] He took Mobutu for 15 million dollars. Blaise Compaoré of Burkina Faso lost 40 million to him. Sassou, Etienne Eyadéma of Togo, several high officials of Gabon, Tanzania and Kenya, a member of the Spanish government and an ex-operative of the Israeli Mossad were bamboozled as well.” – Dominique Malaquais (Blood Money: A Douala Chronicle).
Bantu Serenade by Ntone Edjabe (featuring Nah-ee-lah) (read excerpt)
Santu Mofokeng: Trajectory of a street photographer (part1) (read excerpt)
Binyavanga Wainaina: Hell In Bed With Mrs Peprah (read excerpt)
Dominique Malaquais: Lindela (the winnie suite) (read excerpt)
Boubacar Boris Diop: Myriem (read excerpt)
Cover:
Neo Muyanga
A Funeral For... by Zara Julius in collaboration with Zoé Samudzi (Zara Julius, 2025)
A Funeral For… is a hand-bound art book that explores the entanglements of death-in-life, land, and the necrographies of both imperial violence and indigenous memory through the respective practices of each contributor. The essays and interviews in the book are interspersed with archival images for further context.
Edited by Zara Julius, with contributions of Meghan Ho-Tong, Zara Julius, Abdud-Daiyaan Petersen and Zoé Samudzi.