The Johannesburg Salon, a project supported by the Prince Claus Fund, is pleased to announce the publication of the fourth volume of the Johannesburg Salon. The Salon is one of a number of special projects hosted by the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand.

The project started in 2009 and involved the establishment of a website that entails developing a collective electronic network of highly regarded academic and cultural experts in Africa, and the publication of four volumes with contributions of South African writers as well as writers from elsewhere.

Editors are of the four volumes are Prof. Achille Mbembe and Prof. Lara Allen. The fourth volume contains contributions by Achille Mbembe on Democracy as a Community Life; Paul Gilroy on Fanon 50 Years On; Bjarke Oxlund on Lessons of Love from Limpopo; Arjun Appadurai on Cosmopolitanism from Below; Duncan Brown on Are Trout South African? Or: A Postcolonial Fish; Cobi Labuscagne on The Collector of Art; Cristina Cielo in conversation with Uruguayan intellectual and journalist Raul Zibechi gives us a South American perspective of the momentous changes taking place in North Africa (including a Spanish translation ); four pieces by Raul Zibechi translated into English for the first time; Faisal Devji on the recent revolutions in the Middle East; Filip De Boeck on Kinshasa; Elizabeth Godfrey on Why Zanzibar Reaks; Charles Piot on Nostalgia for the Future: Togo After the Cold War; a photo essay by Brian Goldstone looking charismatic Christianity in Ghana; and a photo essay by Jo Ractliffe tracing the routes of the border war between South Africa in Angola in the1970's and 1980's.

Check out the online library of the Prince Claus Fund to find the other volumes.