topic: Africa

Contemporary Painting from Zimbabwe
January 19, 2012
This slideshow is courtesy of Gallery Delta in Harare, Zimbabwe http://www.gallerydelta.com/ Image Guide: 1) Misheck Masamvu: 'When the...
retrospectives
Faith Restored?
January 16, 2012
I began reading Hope Deferred with little hope of my own, imagining that reading it would be an exercise in enduring a collage of...
retrospectives
Claiming Landscapes
January 12, 2012
A note from the photographer These images belong to four loose categories: 1) Portraits of people who have been affected by AIDS; 2) Aerial...
retrospectives
A Younger Generation Reflects on War, Literature and Zimbabwe
January 4, 2012
An excerpt from the novel, Pawns by the late Zimbabwean author Charles Samupindi Claiming Landscapes, a photo-essay by David Brazier on...
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Pawns (an excerpt)
January 4, 2012
Chapter 2 THEN… Back in time some people were so thin that they had to jump around in the rain to get wet. Back in time. GHETTO BOY Why am...
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From Kurtz to Kurt: Yasmina Khadra's Simplistic African Equation
November 20, 2011
Yasmina Khadra is arguably just as well known for the questions surrounding his identity as for what he has written. The nom de plum e of...
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The Contradictions of Revolution: Boudjedra and Algerian History
November 20, 2011
The fiftieth anniversary of Algeria’s war of Independence is less than a year away. This war, that became the model of Third Worldism, is...
Reviews
To compile, to curate, to bind, to publish, to sell…
November 5, 2011
“If we postpone our action until we have full knowledge of the catastrophe, we will have acquired that knowledge only when it is too late…...
retrospectives
Warscapes in conversation with Saadi Yacef
November 5, 2011
In conjunction with the first-ever publication of the English translation of Saadi Yacef's original prison memoir, Battle of Algiers ,...