Kagenna Magazine

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An alternative magazine from South Africa. Started life as an underground zine published shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and grew into an irregular, irreverant and entertaining read at the newstand. Published in Cape Town, the magazine carried articles by activists, anarchists, ecologists and hackers and was considered subversive and revolutionary for its time. The last issue was published electronically in 1993.

[edit] Origin

Kagenna - from Gehenna, the Jewish Hell, and !Cagn, the mantis god of the !kung San People

The project started out as a collective experiment in Cape Town during 1989. The first issue had a silk-screened cover and was photocopied. Subsequent issues became more sophisticated and the magazine developed a life of its own, spawning other experiments and in particular a thriving small press.