Chimurenga Vol. 8: We’re All Nigerian! (December ’05)

Takes:

Brent Hayes Edwards – Crossroads Republic
Akin Adesokan – The Amazing Career of Passport B957848
Olu Oguibe – Remembering Biafra
Odia Ofeimun – In Defence of the Films We Have Made
Akinbode Akinbiyi – Depth of Field
Ike Okonta – What the Hanged Man Said
Achal Prabhala – Third-Class City
Ishtiyaq Shukri – Palestine Journey

Conversation:

The Last Interview: Fela Anikulapo-Kuti with Keziah Jones – “When You Kill Us, We Rule!”
Third Mainland Bridge: Stories from Lagos

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – Lagos, Lagos
Efe Okogu – The Birth of the Blue
Sefi Atta – The Last Trip
Jumoke Verissimo – A Drive

A Letter

from Laura Bush

Poems:

Tanure Ojaide – When We Hear the Name of President
Pius Adesanmi – Message from Aso Rock to a Poet in Exile
Simdul Shagaya – Amalgamation Revisited
Khulile Nxumalo – the tsietsi i made looks down

Photography:

Depth of Field (Uchechukwu James Iroh, Emeka Okerere, Amaize Ojeikere)
Nkrumah’s Independence Day (Marion Kaplan)
Meeting Ali (Oscar Memba Freitas)
Fela at Kalakuta (Michel Maiofiss)
Billie Holiday (Hugh Bell)

Art:

Fela: Amen, Amen, Amen (Barkley Hendricks)
Turbo Charger
The Feature of Law Enforcement
Dogs of Hell (all Abu Bakarr Mansaray)

Cover art sampled and assembled by Rucera Seethal @ the Chimurenga Lab.