Chimurenga 2 Dis-Covering Home (run nigga run)”
Chimurenga 2 Dis-Covering Home (run nigga run)”
“Dis-Covering Home (run nigga run)”
| “Three generations of white South African men were bound together at that table. Vermuelen was the first generation. He defined Africa, made it safe for Basson to defile. I was the last generation, the last to grow up in segregated neighborhoods. Between us was the silent photograph of Wouter Basson. Like a distant father, Basson was absent at the dining table.” – Henk Rossouw (Hole in the White ‘Hood). Also Mahmood Mamdani on Bantu Education at UCT, Gael Reagon on sisterhood, Binyavanga Wainaina on dis-covering Kenya, Gaston Zossou on African intellectuals and more… |
| Takes: – Dis-Covering Home Suite : Part1: Going Home by Binyavanga Wainaina Part2: (untitled) by Steve O. Part3: Hole in the White ‘Hood by Henk Rossouw Part4: Insearchofthelostriddim by Ntone Edjabe – Lesego Rampolokeng on bavinos on the run stateside Mahmood Mamdani on African Studies as Bantu education at UCT – circa 1998 – Gael Reagon on sisterhood and nationhood – Julian Jonker on whiteys on the moon and black secret technology Conversations: Louis Moholo, Blue Notes’ drummer (talking to John Eyles): “When we met Chris McGregor, he met us [black musicians in Blue Notes] as well. I always find it so difficult that [view that] King Chris McGregor came along and rescued us like Captain Marvel. He did not really. We did him a favour.” Gaston Zossou, Benin’s Minister of Culture/author (talking to Boniface Mongo-Mboussa): “I reproach the people in our country who call themselves “intellectuals” for in fact being master copyists. They have the privilege of being the official distributors, the dealers of a culture which is not our own. And, in my opinion, that makes them incompetent in dealing with our problems.” Haile Gerima, Ethiopian filmmaker (talking to Bridget Thompson and Phindile Xaba) – circa 1990: “A lot of my friends just think ‘Oh South Africa, we’ll all have a powerful base from which to make movies’. I think it depends who comes to power, then you’ll know how universal how pan-African they will be and how much they care about the rest of Africa. SA might be a new colony for America.” (web only) Faction: Kgafela oa Magogodi – hole in his heart Ashraf Jamal – in a field (for Zwelethu Mthethwa) Noa Jasmine – breathing lessons Khulile Nxumalo – Yeoville Kites Jorge Matine – (untitled) Re-Views: Sandile Dikeni on Andile Yenana’s We Used To Dance Nadia Davids on Zimitri Erasmus’s Coloured By history, Shaped By Space Goddy Leye on Dak’Art and other biennials: “A friend of mine would speak to his wooden sculptures each time he had European or American visitors in his studio. “Cool ! Cool! Here come my friends” he would say to refrain the ‘terrible anger’ of the sculptures being ‘disturbed’.” (web only) Photographs: Yazeed Kalmadien (amandla intifada) – Zwelethu Mthethwa (in a field) – George Hallet – Oscar G – Goddy Leye – Dominique Malaquais Cover: Strange Fruit by Lewis Allen |
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