“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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Ròt-Bò-Krik
Ròt-Bò-Krik is a small, independent, polyphonic, joyful and baroque publishing house. It was born in Sète in the summer of 2021.
Ròt-Bò-Krik publishes books of modest form and easy format, inexpensive, to put into circulation texts, fictional or not, which play the role of facilitators between utopias of yesterday and tomorrow. It intends to propagate improbable, unknown, salient, inflammatory, cosmopolitan, edgy, prolific, colorful, cutting works.
By choosing to adorn each of its publications with works by William Morris, an ardent defender of emancipatory art, reinventing a horizon by drawing inspiration from ancient popular practices, Ròt-Bò-Krik asserts the artisanal and committed nature of its editorial peddling.
The Ròt-Bò-Krik editions were founded with long-term Chimurenga comrade and collaborator, Dominique Malaquais (†).
