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In Search of the Dead: (Un)marked Graves and The Sea of We
In Search of the Dead: (Un)marked Graves and The Sea of We by Thomas Glave We had left the car parked just off the main road – or, rather, off the paved road wide enough to accommodate one car comfortably – some hundred or so yards back, amidst thick bush, as most Jamaicans would term…
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Two Interviews with James Baldwin
by Robert Reid-Pharr, Editor I always felt that when I was talking publicly, I was talking mainly to the children, to the young, which is as to the future, and I was talking about people’s souls; I was never really talking about simply political action, because I am not a political activist. —from James Baldwin’s…
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On John de St. Jorre’s “Looking for Mercenaries”
Transition’s Anniversary Issue, published in 1997, featured selections from the magazine from 1961-1976, including John de St. Jorre’s 1967 article from T33, “Looking for Mercenaries.” St. Jorre candidly profiles a group of mercenaries drawn to the Congo to fight alongside the Katangese against the Congolese army. In the essay, he contends, “that a small group of…
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