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How to change your view of Africa - FT.com

►http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/609259e4-4709-11e1-bc5f-00144feabdc0.html#axz

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.

Crossing the chasm - Fatima Hassan « Writing Rights
►http://writingrights.org/2011/11/21/crossing-the-chasm-what-can-ward-54-sea-point-and-other-wards-and-rpa

“What can and should rate payers do to bridge the divide in the City of Cape Town”

#bidonvilles

’They’re raping us in open fields’ - Sowetan LIVE
►http://www.sowetanlive.co.za/news/2011/11/10/they-re-raping-us-in-open-fields

A CAPE TOWN resident and member of the Social Justice Coalition Zukiswa Qezo says many women residents at a Khayelitsha informal settlement are being raped when they relieve themselves in an open field due to insufficient toilets in the area.

#viol #toilettes #bidonville #afrique_du_sud #justice

South Africa, Corrective Rape Protestors Chant the ‘Amandla Awethu’ (Lez Get Real)
►http://lezgetreal.com/2011/05/video-south-africa-corrective-rape-protestors-chant-the-amandla-awethu

This weekend a group of protestors rallied outside the South African Parliament in the legislative capital, Cape Town. A recent spate of rapes and murders against young lesbians, have presented as the yet to be legislated hate crime of so called “corrective rape.”