Bakwa 06 June 2,2014 What is Lapiro de Mbanga’s place in the pantheon of protest music? Does BrymO’s vision of Lagos capture what the city feels like, or does it provoke a 19th century Dickensian image of a failing industrial city? Plus poetry in Pidgin, Creole, Spanglish, Sheng, English and more by Minna Salami, Jack […]
Our sixth issue, while containing an array of experimental poetry (as well as writing and music supplements) in various creoles and pidgins, also ‘writes back’ to a number of magazines and blogs. This issue opens with Dante Besong’s response to an article in the New Statesman titled “Why pop culture won’t lay a finger
Serubiri Moses [Music Review] Reading BrymO’s Lagosian fiction in Merchants, Dealers & Slaves Serubiri Moses Merchants, Dealers & Slaves evokes the confident move of the artist defining their own journey as a songwriter and performer. This is what one gathers even without knowing who BrymO is, indeed, even prior to their knowledge of Naija pop.
BrymO’s Lagosian fiction in Merchants, Dealers & Slaves Read More »
The work explores the relationship between the graffiti in the Point E and Ouakam area with Senegal’s history, literature and politics.
[Photography] Dakar Street Series by Serubiri Moses Read More »
Brazilian Photographer Dimitri Pilalis documents the nightmarish reality of public and private mental health care institutions in Jakarta, Indonesia’s capital city, where he was in contact with patients for 60 days, with many patients appearing underfed, naked, and inhumanely restrained.
[NSFW] [Photography] Jakarta by Dimitri Pilalis Read More »
