Chimurenga Vol. 5: Head/Body(&Tools)/Corpses (April ’04)

Intro :

Dear Tom by Bessie Head

Takes:

(for Wopko Jensma)/Black Bottom Stomp
(Pravasan Pillay/Wopko Jensma)
thinking through Bessie Head’s shattered bits
(Pumla Dineo Gqola)
Poetics of Schizophrenia
(Jean Claude Fignolé – translated by Ntone Edjabe)
African modes of self writing
(Achille Mbembe – translated by Steven Rendall)
Into the Whistle’s Nostrils
(Khulile Nxumalo)
Meditations on Jimi Hendrix
(Greg Tate)
Evidence
(Brent Hayes Edwards)

Sexing Africa Again
(Dominique Malaquais)
The Great Indian Rape Trick (part 1)
(Arundhati Roy)
The Turntable
(Charles Mudede)
Strange Fruits
(unknown – proposed by Cullen Goldblatt)
Shoes
(Sandile Dikeni)

The Crucifixion (for Robert Mugabe)
(Chimalum Nwankwo)
Half A Yellow Sun/Bloody Nukes
(Chimamanda Adichie Ngozi/Olu Oguibe)
Post HIV Positive
(Muthoni Garland)
Pen handling for Hefty
(Reikane Mofokeng)

Here Lies A Spy
(Epictetus D Mangcuca Jr)
The second moon
(Tanure Ojaide)

Outro :

Why do I write/Untitled
(Bessie Head/George Hallett)

Cover Art :

Dread Scott