“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
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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