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Airport Theatre, African Villain

Martin Kimani navigates airport theatrics, from crotch explosives to sniffer

A PASSPORT BY ANY OTHER NAME

The concept of an Africa without borders for Africans remains

Penpoints, Gunpoints, and Dreams:
A history of creative writing instruction in East Africa

From the earnest hustle of our elders in writing during

The Picture

In those moments all that noise seems to come together

Homeless in the Afterlife

Myriad and alienating bureaucratic procedures often delay the passing of

NEW RELEASE! Four Stories About Music in Africa, Volume 1

a limited edition handmade box set featuring four publications from

Festac: Idia Tales – Three Takes and a Mask*

By Dominique Malaquais and Cedric Vincent

Preliminary Notes for a Mediterranean Manifesto

Connecting ancience and modern roots/routes Rasheed Araeen redraws the boundaries

Ubuhle Bendalo Community Arts Festival

16-18 February 2024 10am-10pm daily Chimurenga Factory

UBUHLE BENDALO

16 - 18 February 2024 Chimurenga Factory

HOPHUIS: A SITE OF DANCE AND SOLIDARITY

Thursday, 09 November 2023 from 6pm. Chimurenga Factory

Guilt Trips

Kai Friese interrogates the colonial fantasy that lives on in

LAUNCHING MINE MINE MINE

Chimurenga Factory Thu, 12 Oct 2023 from 6pm

Notes for an Oratorio on small things that fall

Aditi Hunma reviews the launch of Notes for an Oratorio

CHIMURENGA@20: IN PRAISE OF INDIGENOUS AFRICAN WORDFORM

Have African literary forms been lost in a morass of

THE WRITINGS OF BINYAVANGA WAINAINA

Launching a new collection of writings by the late, great

LIBERATION RADIO

an ongoing query on knowledge production via African sound worlds,

PASS LANDING IN DAR-ES-SALAAM

From 10 – 14 August 2022, we presented another edition

CHIMURENGA@20: Midway Between Silence and Speech

The art and incarnation of Justine Gaga.

LIBERATION RADIO

We’re proud to present a new edition of “Liberation Radio”

In conversation with Omoseye Bolaji

In the Free State, the most important and pivotal figure

LIBERATION RADIO: PEOPLE WHO THINK TOGETHER, DANCE TOGETHER #7

Conversations with Christian Nyampeta, featuring Hannah Black, Sasha Bonét, Natacha

Launching NOTES FOR AN ORATORIO ON SMALL THINGS THAT FALL

Wednesday, 13 April 2022 Chimurenga Factory 6pm

Liberation Radio: Cape Town – 15-18 March 2022

Live on PASS: 15th-18th March 2022, 3-6pm

Pieces of Dominique

The writings, translations and ideas of our dearly departed friend,

Koltan Kills Kids

By Tsuba Ka 23 (Dominique Malaquais, Mowoso, Kongo Astronauts)

SEXING AFRICA, AGAIN – POP AS POLITICS: WATCH IT TONIGHT ON HBO

By Dominique Malaquais

WHO WILL SAVE THE SAVIOURS?

A close gaze at the collective apathy that killed Dr.

THIRD TRANSITION

Shoks Mzolo and Bongani Kona trace the path of South

“Angazi, but I’m sure”: A Raw Académie Session

CHIMURENGA CHRONIC – IMAGI-NATION NWAR – OUT NOW!

PANAFEST, hosted by Chimurenga

A web documentary, audio-video archive and online cartography, that chronicles

Your Own Hand Sold You: Voluntary servitude in the Francafrique

In the CFA franc, the French colonial mission in West

Ibadan, Soutin and the Puzzle of Bower’s Tower

The jingle would survive the event, as the poetry of

African Cities Reader I: Pan-African Practices

Featuring writing and musings by Rustum Kozain, Jean-Christophe Lanquetin, Gabeba

African Cities Reader II: Mobilities & Fixtures

The second installment of the Reader features Sean O’Toole, David

African Cities Reader III: Land, Property & Value

The third installment of the Reader explores the unholy trinity

Yellow Fever, Nko?

Skin bleaching is often described as a manifestation of ‘colo-mentality’.

Urbanism Beyond Architecture – African Cities as Infrastructure

Vyjayanthi Rao, in conversation with Filip de Boeck & Abdou

Quel Est L’Endroit Idéal

Les Brasseries du Cameroun is the country’s largest industry and

IN MEMORIAM: Binyavanga Wainaina (1971 – 2019)

A friend, a Chimurenga founding father, an award winning writer,

Search Sweet Country

In conversation with Binyavanga Wainaina, Kojo Laing talks to a

“We should take out that word ‘national’ and reconstruct that word ‘theatre’….

Perfect, perfect, you have solved the problem for me, we

Who Killed Kabila

The Most Authentic Real Black Africanest Togo Soccer team Story

How To Be A Dictator

Binyavanga Wainaina presents 16 Rules for Big Man aspirations

TO REFUSE THAT WHICH HAS BEEN REFUSED TO YOU

The Impossible Death of an African Crime Buster

The Invention of Zimbabwe – New edition of Chimurenga’s Chronic available now!

THE BLACK BOMB

MURIMI MUNHU

MILKING A DYING COW

Who Killed Kabila I

From December 13 – 17, 2017, Chimurenga installed a library

Down the footpath

The New Thing: Part II*

A Brief History of Fufu Pounding

The preparation of fufu is a far from the drudgery

Jollof Diaries – A letter from the frontline

Maggic Cube

Second Transition

In Bond We Trust?

Nearly a decade on from the worst postcolonial turmoil that

Dear President Museveni

Radical Rudeness

CHIMURENGA@20: NO ONE WILL SAVE YOU – REMEMBERING KENYA’S KARL MARX

Student movements in many African countries have historically confronted contradictions

Pan African Activism Meets Mamdanisation

Survivor’s Guide to Smelling Naais

Bread of Life

SOMEWHERE NEAR THE BEGINNING OF THE MATCH

The Complete Gentleman

State vs State: The Powers Behind the MTN Nigeria Fine

No Easy Truce Between Africa’s Most Powerful Brothership

Dear Dr. Schwab, Queen of Jordan

Binyavanga Wainaina responds to an invitation to participate in Young

Soft Power South African Style

City Building in Post-Conflict, Post-Socialist Luanda

Under Nelson Mandela Boulevard

CHIMURENGA@20: RELUCTANTLY LOUD

Cape Town is a city with a waiting list of

“We need more contact zones to create a space for critical discussion, and to propagate and exchange a continuous cultural benefit.”

“The contemporary art in this country is flowing, but it needs direction.”

The Death Metaphor

Visions for the National Tear-ter of Nigeria

This Sea Shall Be Uprooted

High Class Shanty Town

Urban Sahara from the Sky

IRM de la ville de Douala

The New Reading

Some argue that the new media has forever altered our

The Shifting Fortunes of a Performing Poet

Mapping The Last King of Africa

Bordering on Borana

Pwani Si Kenya

The Last King of Africa

Manufacturing African Celebrity

Soft Power Desire Machines and the Production of Africa Rising

Neopats and Repats

Creative Industries as Underdevelopment

New Oil Old Lamps

Shifting Gulfward

Life After Oil

The Bite and the Embrace

New Trade Routes

After Oil Water

African War Machines

The Internet is Afropolitan

The Story of an African Farm

Mining for Minds

Chronic Apartheid Litigation

11 YRS OF DEMONCRAZY!!!

New Bush, Old Ghosts

A Letter from Laura Bush

A Letter from Home

Birthing the American

Yemisi Aribisala explores, with mixed emotions, the enduring opportunism of

Nothing but… Grobbelaar

Altourism – Where Altruism Meets Adventure

Laugh it Off

Interactions: A Strategy of Difference and Repetition

The Power of Wikipedia: Legitimacy and Control

The story of a South African firm

The First Lady Syndrome

The Chronic: The Philanthropic Complex (August 2013)

Writers in the broadsheet include Jon Soske, Paula Akugizibwe, Yves

In Defense Of The Films We Have Made

Three Men, A Fence & A Dead Body

Guns, Girls and Gentle People

Pulp!

Hauling Humans: a tricky business for trans-border truckers

Itineraries

Relaxing

Letters to Hillbrow

Monica Maxwell and Samson Botsotso

New Bushs Old Ghosts

Migration Business is Good Business

La Frontera

Uncertainty in Cuba after the Death of Hugo Chávez

Moving ‘White Man’s Deads’ is no second hand business

The New Normal

Oscar Pistorius first gained international fame amid a raging debate

Platinum Dreams

The Rise Of Somali Capital

The Quiet Encroachment of the Ordinary

Juba ‘I will make my life here’

The metronomes of ancient history, the legacy of war, the
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