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Category: Faith & Ideology

Bajove Dokotela

Let the good Dr [Philip Tabane] inject you in three

Sungura Stories

Ranga Mberi travels back in musical time to the 1980s

Homeless in the Afterlife

Myriad and alienating bureaucratic procedures often delay the passing of

MSAFIRI KAFIRI – a conversation and listening Session on the roots and routes of Tanzanian hip hop with Seth Markle

Thursday, 01 August, broadcasting live from 6pm. Tune in at

KÀDDU- THE ECHO OF DISSONANT DISCOURSE

More than a mere editorial committee, Kàddu was a research,

Jah Hills by Unathi Slasha (Black Ghost Books, 2017)

Set between Kwafindoda, where the nature is alive and ghosts

LISTEN: A TRIBUTE TO KELAN PHIL COHRAN

In honour of the late Kelan Phil Cohran we present,

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

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

Chimurenganyana: The Garden Letters of Yvonne Vera by Tadiwa Madenga (Sep 2023)

In this monograph, Tadiwa Madenga travels to Bulawayo to retrace

CHIMURENGANYANA: MUSIC NOTEBOOK OUT NOW!

MUSIC NOTEBOOK by Ari Sitas

CLASS STRUGGLE IN MUSIC

Chimurenga Factory - 157 Victoria Rd, Woodstock Thursday, 17 August

LATEST IN STORE: CHANTS, DREAMS AND OTHER GRAMMARS OF LOVE

a gedenkschrift for Harry Garuba

REVIEW: AND THE BOOKS LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER

Harry Garuba reviews reissues of Amos Tutuola's writings

La Discothèque de Sarah Maldoror (tracklisting)

decomposed, an-arranged, and reproduced by Ntone Edjabe

FIELD RECORDINGS WITH SHABAKA HUTCHINGS

FIELD RECORDINGS WED, 22 FEB 2023 from 6PM

GROUNATION – a tribute to the Mystic Revelation of Rastafari

“Grounation Day” marks the landing of Emperor Selassie I in

Chimurenga presents GROUNATION

a tribute to the Mystic Revelation of Rastafari

LIBERATION RADIO: TUMI MOGOROSI’S GROUP THEORY:BLACK MUSIC

The latest episode in the Stories About Music in Africa

MYSTIC REVELATION OF RASTAFARI

We shall open this new cycle of programming with a

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

I’M NOT WHO YOU THINK I’M NOT

Serubiri Moses reflects on Binyavanga Wainaina’s refusal to fit neatly

I am a homosexual, Mum

A lost chapter from One Day I Will Write About

MALCOLM JIYANE’S TREE-O

Live at Chimurenga Factory - Fri, 28 October 2022

TUMI MOGOROSI’S GROUP THEORY:BLACK MUSIC

Live at Chimurenga Factory - Sat, 22 Oct 2022

The Music Mind of Greg Tate: Sonic Syllabus for a Patternmaster

A 5-hour music selection in memory of Greg Tate on

CHIMURENGA@20: MURIMI MUNHU

Panashe Chigumadzi travels to the rural Zimbabwe of her ancestors,

LIBERATION RADIO

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

CHIMURENGA@20: AZANIA SALUTES TOSH

On the eve of the tenth anniversary of the death

SOUNDGARDEN

a live reading for Bessie Head's 85th 13 July 2022

MASELLO MOTANA’S VOCAL MUSEUM

Live at the Chimurenga Factory

IN MEMORIAM: OMOSEYE BOLAJI (1964-2022)

We remember Nigerian-born writer, Omoseye Bolaji (1964-2022), and his immense

CHIMURENGA@20: WHEN YOU KILL US, WE RULE!

In 1996, Keziah Jones visited Kalakuta Republic every day for

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

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

CHIMURENGA@20: THE WARM-UP

The xenophobic violence that swept through many communities in South

iPhupho L’ka Biko – live at the Chimurenga Factory

Thursday, 31 March 2022 7pm

Liberation Radio: Cape Town – 15-18 March 2022

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

The Africans, A Radio Play in Three Acts

Worldwide premiere live on PASS – 09-11 February 2022

MEDITATIONS ON JIMI HENDRIX

by Greg Tate All roads lead to Jimi Hendrix.

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)

Out of Sight

A short story by Yambo Ouologuem adapted from the French

Rumblin’

By Dominique Malaquais

JOKER’S WILD (SLIGHT RETURN)

By Dominique Malaquais

READING FRED HO

Gwen Ansell and Salim Washington celebrate the revolutionary life, language

WHO WILL SAVE THE SAVIOURS?

A close gaze at the collective apathy that killed Dr.

From Seven Modes for Hood Science

The black spirit is universally sick with dissimulation and at

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

PANAFEST, hosted by Chimurenga

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

On the Digital Application of Ancestral Work

African spirituality as practiced digitally was amplified by COVID-19.

QAMATA PULA, an ancestral invocation

iPhupho L’ka Biko and Pan African Space Station present QAMATA

Where Terror Lies

The rhetoric of ‘radical’ and ‘fundamentalist’ Islam, of ‘global jihad’

Nigeria’s Superstar Men Of God

Who needs the God of the bible with his promises

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

TRACKS

MADEYOULOOK collective met with photographer Santu Mofokeng to establish the

Yellow Fever, Nko?

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

RIP PAPA GEORGE

They Won’t Go When I Go

A Manifesto/ Meditation on State of Black Archives in America

Monumental Failures

By Dominique Malaquais

SALUT GLISSANT

“Nothing is true, everything is alive.” Moses März, imagines a

IN MEMORIAM: Binyavanga Wainaina (1971 – 2019)

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

HIKIMA – a letter from Zaria

She eyed me. A thing wet around her eyes, like

IN THE DEN OF THE ALCHEMIST

Which “they”? Which “one”? What “secrets” are you talking about?

The Pharaoh’s New Clothes

Its location, vocation, and publication intended to speak to a

Who Killed Kabila

HEI VOETSEK!

Who invented truth

Tired of truth, I am. And metanarratives and more truth

Where Is This Place

Keguro Macharia asks how might one describe where One Day

DISCOVERING HOME

Nothing was impossible for a writer like him

Billy Kahora on Binyavanga Wainaina’s Work

How To Be A Dictator

Binyavanga Wainaina presents 16 Rules for Big Man aspirations

An excerpt from ‘Hell Is In Bed With Mrs Preprah’

Binyavanga Wainaina charts the aesthetics of black hair, beership and

Pass Me the Microphone: Phoebe Boswell

Stories and sounds from the Swahili coast… sampling Binyavanga Wainaina’s

WHAT AFRICAN WRITERS CAN LEARN FROM CHEIKH ANTA DIOP

In a testament to Cheikh Anta Diop, Boubacar Boris Diop

The Tyelera Moment

TO REFUSE THAT WHICH HAS BEEN REFUSED TO YOU

OF TOTEMS, HISTORY AND POLITICS

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

THINKING TOO MUCH

NONE BUT OURSELVES

THE WAY I SEE IT – National Heroes Acre I

‘GO TO THE LIMITS OF KNOWLEDGE!’ MURIDISM IN THE LIFE OF CHEIKH ANTA DIOP

CHEIKH ANTA DIOP – AN AWAKENING

BAHUJANAFRIQUE – A PLAUSIBLE FUTURE

A BRIEF HISTORY OF CHIMURENGA AS A COMMUNAL LABORATORY

Poverty is Older than Opulence

Zinedine Zidane and and the event of the secret

Grant Farred produces a Derridean reading of Zidane’s world-stopping head

Who Killed Kabila I

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

Down the footpath

Home is where the music is

Some African Cultural Concepts By Steve Biko

STORIES ABOUT MUSIC IN AFRICA – Ingoma Yomzabalazo with Iphupho Lka Biko

Recorded live at Chimurenga HQ, Cape Town, in February 2017

Fufu Pot: A Truth Hard to Swallow

Marikana

Avions De Nuit

The Muezzin and I

God Has Written a Miracle Into My Body

The Upper Room

The Memory of Victory

Ingrained in the DNA of every male growing up in

CHIMURENGA@20: SISTER OUTSIDER

Yemisi Aribisala rails against the new fundamentalism cresting the wave

How to Approach Heaven

Dear Dr. Schwab, Queen of Jordan

Binyavanga Wainaina responds to an invitation to participate in Young

Creating Theatre: A George Hallett Photo Essay

The Curry Chronicles, Part 1

A Political Economy of Noise

My Life as a Seventh Day Adventist

Quiet No more

The African Affairs Bureau

El-Salahi – The Wise Enemy

Islam between Françafrique and Afrabia

Needless to say, Françafrique was not the only constellation of

Nasser and the African Revolution

1966

Qibla

Writing the City in a Different Script

Jihad as a Form of Struggle in the Resistance to Apartheid in South Africa

CHIMURENGA@20: SECULAR STORIES

Authenticity counts for something; the confidence that authenticity bestows counts

CHIMURENGA@20: WAITING FOR WAME

I am hungry. Tempted. In pain. I reach for the

Mapping The Last King of Africa

In a Time of Boko Haram

Re-Membering the Name of God

Secret Countries

Soft Power Desire Machines and the Production of Africa Rising

Creative Industries as Underdevelopment

All That is Solid Melts into PR

Mark Fisher speaks to Bongani Kona about the social, economic

Operation Protective Edge

Undoing the Spell

The Undeveloped Intellectual in Zombie-land

Breaking the Rules Beautifully

And the Books Lived Happily Ever After

Which Africa Are We Talking About?

New Oil Old Lamps

Shifting Gulfward

After Oil Water

African War Machines

Yambo Ouloguem: Postcolonial Writer, Anti-Wahhabist Militant

How to write about Africa

In Suburbia

What Follows? The State of Black Collectivity in the Year of the Sheep

The African Renaissance Hoer-o-scope for Politicians

‘Let’s face it: we’re in over our heads. We need the white folks to come back.’

Une Hommage à Goddy Leye

Black Skin, White Ass

Buru Buru

Out of sight and out of mind in High Care

Palestine Journey

Searching for Augusto Zita

Visioncarnation

Masquerade

The cosmic lives and afterlives of Zebulon Dread

11 YRS OF DEMONCRAZY!!!

Obi’s Nightmare

It’s only a matter of acceleration now

This is how the earth is arranged, or this is

When You Kill Us, We Rule

Obstacles

Will the Centre Hold?

Happy Valentine’s Day

‘Nation Is A Skin Stretched Over The Bones Of The State’

A Letter from Laura Bush

A Letter from Home

I Travel with the Dead

Americanah and other definitions of supple citizenships

How to be a Nigerian

George Osodi

The Chronic: The Philanthropic Complex (August 2013)

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

Che

Rest In Peace Chiwoniso Maraire

Dead Cow Spreads Fear and Rumour in Lagos Suburb

I Smoked A Spliff With Jesus Christ

The Road To Wellville

Relaxing

When history is suspended

Salut Deleuze!

Dr Satan’s Echo Chamber

Our cyborg past: Medieval artificial memory as mindware upgrade

Voudou Priestess Madame Evonne Auguste

Elvis on the move

Chimurenganyana: In Search of Yambo Ouologuem by Christopher Wise (June 2012)

Yambo Ouologuem, Malian author, has been shrouded in mystery since

Chimurenganyana: Dr Satan’s Echo Chamber by Louise Chude-Sokei (June 2012)

Reggae, technology and the diaspora - the (un)making of Dr.

Chimurenganyana: In Defence of the Films We Have Made by Odia Ofeimun (2009)

Chimurenganyana: Blood Money – A Douala Chronicle by Dominique Malaquais (2009)

Chimurenganyana: When You Kill Us, We Rule! by Keziah Jones (June 2009)

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