Unchain the art
Gwen Ansell maps the distance between words and music, fiction and autobiography, subversion and submersion through an epistolary review or two books that operate at the limits of language and song. “According to my records there was something/More…mind bringing African control on the corny times/of the tunes he would play. There was Space/And the […]
Must You Stage an Escape?
Stacy Hardy reads the work of two itinerant poets – Johannes Göransson and Uche Nduka – who wield words to leap walls, jack us “out of the suburbs” and make us into “peeping toms” There is a wonderful suggestive confusion between wonder and wander – as if getting lost and digression were at the […]
Discoveries of Timbuktu
Ciraj Rassool I am not a scholar of Timbuktu or Arabic or Ajami (African languages in Arabic script) texts. Instead I have had the opportunity to think about the meanings and significance of this book from the vantage point of a scholar of heritage, archives and collecting. I myself travelled to Timbuktu and Djenne under […]