pulsations is a new and innovative semiannual journal of new African writing in French and English.

This inaugural issue contains the poetry, essays, short stories, photography and paintings of:

Sarah I. Manyika, a writer from Nigeria whose lastest novel is In Dependence.
Jean-Luc Raharimanana, a writer from Madagascar, author among others of the novel Za.
Herve Yamguen, a poet-painter from Cameroon.
Cullen Goldblatt, a poet and translator from South Africa whose latest collection of poems is Night Music.
Akin Adesokan, a writer and scholar from Nigeria who teaches at Indiana University.
Ondjaki, a writer from Angola, born in 1977, whose books have been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, German and many other languages.
Kangni Alem, a writer from Togo, author among others of Esclaves. He blogs at le blog de Kangni Alem.
Florent Couao-Zotti, a writer from Benin and the author of a dozen novels lives in Cotonou.
Patrice Nganang, a Cameroonian writer, whose latest novel is Mont Plaisant.
Wilfried Mwenye, a Cameroonian writer based in Yaounde.

The editorial and advisory team behind pulsations includes:

President of Advisory Board  Maryse Conde (Guadeloupe/USA)
Editor  Patrice Nganang (Cameroon/USA)
Executive Editor  Sarah Ladipo Manyika (Nigeria/England/USA)

Editorial Board
Chris Abani (Nigeria/USA)
Kangni Alem (Togo/France)
Florent Couao-Zotti (Benin)
Nathalie Etoke (Cameroon/USA)
Theophile Kouamouo (Cameroon/Ivory Coast)
Jean-Luc Raharimanana (Madagascar/France)
Marcelin Vounda Etoa (Cameroon)

Advisory Board
Boubacar Boris Diop (Senegal)
Emmanuel Dongala (Congo/USA)
Okwui Enwezor (Nigeria/USA)
Ambroise Kom (Cameroon/USA)
Nurrudin Farah (Somalia/South Africa)
Nozipo Maraire (Zimbabwe/USA)
Winfried Miampika (Equatorial Guinea/Spain)
Muepu Muamba (Congo/Germany)
Rob Spillman (USA)

SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION

Individuals:  $25 per issue, $50 per year
Institutions:  $100 per year
Contact Africa World Press at s.kassahun@africaworldpressbooks.com to subscribe!

Could we ever do more than the prodigal ones? Were not slavery and colonization, in the end, better, were not these centuries of pain perhaps better for us, we who will never know how to take care of ourselves? Strange how the torturer of those centuries, through the miracle of aiding and granting, has been transformed into impotent rescuer, powerless in the face of our ostensible inability to accept progress, powerless in the face of our supposedly internal wars, faced with our refusal of democracy, good governance, and the rest of the global market. Because, of course, the former settlers and slave masters become, from one day to the next, messiahs.

--from "From Where I Write" by Jean-Luc Raharimananain pulsations