Inqaba ya basebenzi was the journal of the Marxist Workers’ Tendency of the African National Congress, a Marxist group which operated within the larger body of the ANC. The publication Inqaba ya basebenzi was launched in 1981, with the Tendency’s accompanying paper, Congress Militant, launching towards the end of the same decade. The two periodicals […]
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Lail-o-Nihar | لیل و نہار, started in 1957 as a newspaper distributed weekly in Pakistan by Progressive Papers Limited publishing house … read more
Two men of African descent, John Brown Russwurm and Samuel Cornish were chosen to edit Freedom’s Journal in March 1827, launching the Black press in the United States, a vital institution for communication and social justice. Two hundred years later, newspapers, periodicals, zines, and digital media produced by Black Americans remain a necessary project for […]
Initially named “Jabal, Bulletin of the Baluchistan People’s Liberation Front.” Over the course of its circulation, the subtitle intermittently shifted to “The Voice of Balochistan” and “Baluchistan People’s Liberation Front.” Jabal, or Mountain in Balochi, was a cyclostyle pamphlet curated, written, edited, printed, and circulated by members and sympathisers of the Baloch Popular Liberation Front […]
1970
Born two years after the landmark Culture and Resistance Conference, held in Gabarone, in 1982, Vakalisa Art Associates, a flexible group of about twenty artists, formed to reject the idea of the romantic artist and individual genius, opting to produce work with a purpose— art, in its broadest acceptation, that would develop society and contribute […]
Founders of the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC) were alive to the significance of writing, composing freedom songs and reading-in short of disseminating ideas. This view is affirmed by amongst others the South African writer and scholar Njabulo Ndebele who wrote in the 1980s that, ‘no people that has not set in motion its […]
AWA (La revue de la femme noire) short lived 20th Century Senegalese journal magazine founded by Annette Mbaye d’Erneville. A pioneer in promoting Afro-feminism in midcentury West Africa, its first issue published in 1964 and its final issue published in May 1973. It was published monthly and with a voluntary production, printed at Abdoulaye Diop’s […]
Reading Ethiopia in Radical South African Newspapers In this paper, I make a claim for Ethiopia as hidden or overlooked revolutionary trope in South African politics and letters and trace its inscription across selected examples of popular South African newspapers. In South Africa, the idea of Ethiopia has been an important site of pan-Africanist and […]
1930
“We reject the commercial and commodified form of cinema, just as we reject the societal order that produces such a cinema. Neither this form, nor this order, enables humanity to realise itself.” A year prior to Solanas and Getino’s “Towards A Third Cinema” (1969), a group of radical Turkish filmmakers and writers declared this in their new […]
1970
The Analyst was a magazine published in Jos, Nigeria from 1986 till the early 1990s. While a hand-full of scholarly journals attempting to understand Nigerian and African realities from a Marxist perspective sprung up mainly on university campuses through the 1970s, The Analyst distinguished itself by pursing a highly accessible mass circulation magazine format, seeking […]
Given the importance of literature to various forms of social cohesion, it is not surprising that the European and U.S. empires that have dominated the geopolitical existence of the insular Caribbean have not readily invested in literary infrastructure throughout the archipelago. The impact of empire on infrastructure for the production of Caribbean literatures remains underexamined […]
1940
Vinyl Set: Projecting and Shaping Black Futures Through Sound & Album Art Since the late 1930’s, when Columbia Records art director Alex Steinweiss invented the concept of album covers and cover art, it has become a driving force in shaping popular culture, counter-culture and collective imagination. Before the popularization of television and the advent of […]
1960
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