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Chimurenga, a pan-African journal subtitled "Who No Know Go Know," is published from offices in Cape Town, South Africa. Issue #7 includes a report by self-described guerrilla filmmaker Judy Kibinge (a Kenyan who says she was born "a century ago in Nairobbery") describing the frenetic scene at the annual Sithengi film market. Issue #8 focuses on Nigeria ("We're All Nigerian!") and contains a conversation with influential musician Fela Kuti recorded in November 1996. $70/yr. (3 issues) from Box 15117, Vlaeberg, 8018, South Africa; www.chimurenga.co.za.

A new issue of The Dandelion arrived in our mail lately. The little anarchist journal appears infrequently, like many special things. It is edited and printed by Mike Coughlin in out-of-the-way Cornucopia, Wisconsin. This edition (Vol. 6 #3), the first published in over five years, focuses on the life of Thoreau admirer Valerio Isca, a Sicilian-American anarchist machinist who lived and worked in New York City till his death in 1996. $8/4 issues from Box 205, Cornucopia, WI 54827; www.superiorletterpress.com.

Four-Hundred Words is a new, thematic, small-format magazine of "short-short nonfiction," ideal for reading on the bus. The first issue, "Autobiographies," features people's life stories conveyed in 400 words or less, many written by young adults, but others by a septuagenarian aerospace industry retiree, the 16-year-old daughter of cocaine addicts, and a fat middle-aged woman. The focus of the forthcoming second issue: compulsion. $6/copy; www.400words.com.

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