Chimurenga 3 – Biko in Parliament (November 2002)

“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)

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Dub: Finding Ceremony by Alexis Pauline Gumbs (Duke University Press, 2020)

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Dub: Finding Ceremony by Alexis Pauline Gumbs (Duke University Press, 2020)

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The concluding volume in a poetic trilogy, Alexis Pauline Gumbs's Dub: Finding Ceremony takes inspiration from theorist Sylvia Wynter, dub poetry, and ocean life to offer a catalog of possible methods for remembering, healing, listening, and living otherwise. In these prose poems, Gumbs channels the voices of her ancestors, including whales, coral, and oceanic bacteria, to tell stories of diaspora, indigeneity, migration, blackness, genius, mothering, grief, and harm. Tracing the origins of colonialism, genocide, and slavery as they converge in Black feminist practice, Gumbs explores the potential for the poetic and narrative undoing of the knowledge that underpins the concept of Western humanity. Throughout, she reminds us that dominant modes of being human and the oppression those modes create can be challenged, and that it is possible to make ourselves and our planet anew.

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