Chimurenga Vol. 1: Music Is The Weapon
(april '02)
"...The struggle of black people inevitably appear in an intensely cultural form because the social formation in which their distinct political traditions are now manifest has constructed the arena of politics on ground overshadowed by centuries of metropolitan capitalist development, thereby denying them recognition as legitimate politics. Blacks conduct a class struggle in and through race. The BC of race and class cannot be empirically separated, the class character of black struggles is not a result of the fact that blacks are predominantly proletarian, thought this is true..." (Frank Talk Staff Writers in 'Azania Salutes Tosh' - circa 1981). Also Njabulo Ndebele on Brenda, Julian Jonker on the black revolution in SA jazz, Ntone Edjabe on Fela, Henri Kala-Lobe on MC Solaar's negritude and more...
Takes:
Njabulo Ndebele on Being Brenda
Dominique Malaquais on Paintin the WhiteHouse black
Ntone Edjabe on Being Fela
Julian Jonker on the black revolution in SA jazz
Frank Talk writers on Tosh and rasta politics
Steve Gordon on the repatriation of reggae
Henri Kala-Lobe on Negritude à la Mc Solaar
Rustum Kozain on Being 'Coloured'
Faction:
Lesego Rampolokeng - The Tosh Trilogy
Gael Raegon - Moses' Outro
Photographs:
George Hallet - Suede - Steve Gordon - Basil Breakey - Dominique Malaquais
cover:
Tosh by Steve Gordon