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 after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 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.
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