Nasser and the African Revolution
Politically and socially Egypt is said to occupy three spaces as mentioned in President Gamal Abdul Nasser’s booklet Philosophy of the Revolution- Arab, Islamic and African( in that order). However this does not reflect the real priority Nasser gave to relations with other Independent African States and Liberation Movements during the fight against colonialism. The […]
The Story of an African Farm
The Chronic visits wine farms across the Boland area of the Western Cape and finds that little has changed since the strikes of 2012. Donovan Ward paints a visual report. Donovan Ward‘s painting features in the August 2013 edition of the Chronic. Available here in print or as a PDF. The issue also features reportage, creative non-fiction, autobiography, satire, analysis, photography […]
Woza Moya
Maakomele R. Manaka revisits a soundtrack of his dreams, long and rhythmic and hypnotic across time, space and struggles. The music and wisdom of Bra Herbie Tsoaeli lives large, therein, at “the foot of memory”. Illustration by Donovan Ward. “Ba ya si biza, bathi e khaya, zi ya jabula ingana, zi ya jabula. Ma se […]