“What If Maps Were Made By Africans For Their Own Use? | Chimurenga’s New Issue is a Must Read”
“the New Yorker has nothing on the Cape Town-based magazine. Chimurenga Chronicis edgy and experimental in a way that the New Yorker could never be.
The reason for this is simple. When you set out to capture the complexities of Africa’s contemporary moment, you have no choice but to be boundary-pushing.
The pan-African spirit of the magazine is channeled through some of the most beautifully provocative writings on African art, culture, and politics. Every issue of Chimurenga Chronic is curated to retool the language and images we use when we think about Africa. But the latest issue on maps and cartography is particularly so…What Chimurenga does is try to figure out what Africa looks like when it is mapped by Africans for Africans and not by powerful imperial powers for their own interests.”
All the ways identities need to be reclaimed.
