“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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Neo Muyanga
A world in abundance poses innumerable claims on the ‘stuff’ of science; observation, calculation, empiricism, verifiability, truth, objectivity—demands that expand in their readings beyond what is containable.
Matter Mattering Matters is a scienticity reader of artistic, philosophical, theoretical moves on the epistemic instruments we spin to intimate the universe—with contributions by Karen Barad, Simnikiwe Buhlungu, Nolan Oswald Dennis, Rohini Devasher & Sabih Ahmed, Merve Ertufan, Ivana Franke, Jackie Karuti, George Mahashe, Sidony O'Neal, Raqs Media Collective, Oscar Santillan, Bogosi Sekhukhuni, and Aarti Sunder.