'Simunye, we are not one: ethnicity, difference and the hip-hoppers of Cape Town
By Lee Watkins, University of Witwatersrand.

Sandwiched between Black and White under apartheid, the 'Coloured' community of Cape Town is, in many respects, now marginalised from the majority Black society. The response of many of the youth growing up in the bleak Cape Flats area has been to remake their own political and social identities, through the art and music of hip-hop. Based on interviews with Cape Town hip-hop crews, Watkins explores the ways in which they do this, as well as their relationship to Black Consciousness and to wider global struggles. These are voices that have been little heard in all the commentary on South Africa.

All of Africa's gods are weeping.
By E. G. Vallianatos, former UNDP adviser.

A highly topical and deeply moving article in which Vallianatos shows how the model of agriculture foisted on to Africa under colonialism still dominates the continent today, leading to untold hunger and misery for its inhabitants. And the domination of food production by giant agribusiness has profound ecological and environmental consequences for the West also. In the wake of Britain's own current farming crisis, new approaches - or, rather, very old approaches - to sustainable food production also need to be explored. In this article, Professor Vallianatos gives us ways to begin thinking about the issue.