LIZ SAVAGE

I’ve just looked at Herri No 8 again, another brilliant issue with so many ideas, I could spend a whole day reading it. Perhaps the most amazing thing about it is the sheer number of people you get to write, the wealth of talent among the people who write, the energy it has. Just that in itself makes me feel it’s different and ‘African’, it somehow lacks the jadedness and tiredness of a lot of European journalism … though that’s probably unfair as I really don’t read much, except the Guardian, and there’s loads and loads of less stuffy stuff on the internet I know, but I’ve never seen anything even touching the inventiveness of herri…