The Africa Issue

Detalhe da capa de Kaleidoscope, nº 15, 2012 (retirado de C&)

Sean O'Tool, escritor e co-editor de "Cityscapes", residente na África do Sul, questiona as opções e intenções de várias revistas europeias que têm dedicado edições inteiras a África.

This is how it usually goes. An e-mail arrives from some curator’s assistant or editorial intern informing you that Europe is interested in featuring Africa – in their magazine, on their museum wall, somewhere important. Oh yeah, you reply, if they want geography they can buy a spade and go dig for sand themselves. No, they reply, flustered, they want people, names, e-mail addresses, jpegs, contacts. For mahala(Zulu: free), because Africa is open source, has always been. 

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