How to change your view of Africa

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Presse Afrique : Chimurenga, le « XXI africain » : a pan-African English-language journal that change your view of Africa .

Et moi j’ai beaucoup de chance car j’en ai un exemplaire, que je déguste petit à petit. Le journaliste du Financial time qui écrit la recension avoue en fin de son article que lire Chimurenga « vous rend fier d’être journaliste ».

Je n’ai pas de conseil à vous donner, mais si vous vous intéressez à l’Afrique, la seule chose que vous ayez à faire et de contacter Ntone Edjabe le plus vite possible et acheter un ou plusieurs exemplaire

►http://www.chimurenga.co.za

Tout simplement superbe.

How to change your view of Africa - FT.com

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January 27, 2012 10:02 pm
How to change your view of Africa

By Simon Kuper

Chimurenga, a pan-African English-language journal, depicts the continent’s horrors, sometimes from very close...

I once had coffee in Cape Town with a Cameroonian named Ntone Edjabe. He ran an English-language journal called Chimurenga, but what I remembered from our chat were his vignettes of Lagos (where he’d studied) and Johannesburg (where he went next). In Lagos, he said, you’d be driving down the highway and suddenly see a guy selling cars on the highway. Lagos was crazy, and yet it felt entirely safe. Whereas Johannesburg seemed sane, but never felt safe.
Chimurenga illustration

I sent Edjabe some articles, but otherwise forgot about Chimurenga until a recent issue arrived in the mail. (Declaration of interest: I’m proud to say I have an article in it.) I read it and was staggered. I’d always thought the zenith of journalism was The New Yorker, but in parts, Chimurenga is better.