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Category: Media & Propaganda

Threatening the Hormonal Stability of Imbeciles

Stacy Hardy interviews author of 'Senselessness' Horacio Castellanos Moya

The University of Soweto

Frank B. Wilderson draws from his memory of student protests

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

IZIMPABANGA ZOMHLABA – Ukulalela ukufundwa kwesiqephu noNombuso Mathibela

Thursday 22 August 2024, 6pm Chimurenga Factory www.panafricanspacestation.org.za

KÀDDU- THE ECHO OF DISSONANT DISCOURSE

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

NATIONAL HEROES ACRE II & III

by Brian Chikwa, Photographs by Jekesai Njikizanava

Festac: Idia Tales – Three Takes and a Mask*

By Dominique Malaquais and Cedric Vincent

Calabash Afrobeat Poems

Dike Okoro interviews Ikwunga Wonodi

EXHIBITORS AND PARTICIPANTS

Ubuhle Bendalo Community Arts Festival plays host to the following

Ubuhle Bendalo Community Arts Festival

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

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 by Ari Sitas (Aug 2023)

Music Notebook is at once a scrapbook, a bildungsroman, a

CLASS STRUGGLE IN MUSIC

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

Notes for an Oratorio on small things that fall

Aditi Hunma reviews the launch of Notes for an Oratorio

Costa Diagne et Les Hommes de la danse

par Gabrielle Chomentowski

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

A RADIO PROGRAMME ON THE LIFE AND WORK OF THE MYSTIC REVELATION OF RASTAFARI

Live on PASS - 14 February 2023, from 6pm

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

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

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

CHIMURENGA@20: GENRES OF HUMAN

In his book, The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black

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

CHIMURENGA@20: ONCE THERE WERE HUMANS

In the hills above Kingston, Jamaica Annie Paul unpacks some

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

In conversation with Omoseye Bolaji

In the Free State, the most important and pivotal figure

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

LIBERATION RADIO: PUNGWE 1

Selected and mixed by Robert Machiri

CHIMURENGA@20: THE WARM-UP

The xenophobic violence that swept through many communities in South

Launching NOTES FOR AN ORATORIO ON SMALL THINGS THAT FALL

Wednesday, 13 April 2022 Chimurenga Factory 6pm

iPhupho L’ka Biko – live at the Chimurenga Factory

Thursday, 31 March 2022 7pm

Chimurenganyana: You Look Illegal by Paula Ihozo Akugizibwe (Feb 2022)

A mediation on skin, violence, and the limits of citizenship

CHIMURENGA@20: A Silent Way – Routes of South African Jazz, 1946-1978

Where to begin? Which silences? There are many.

Liberation Radio: Cape Town – 15-18 March 2022

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

CHIMURENGA@20: Talkin’ ‘bout Survival – The Repatriation of Reggae

Where Apartheid and broadcasters divided South Africans culturally, here comes

The Africans, A Radio Play in Three Acts

Worldwide premiere live on PASS – 09-11 February 2022

PASS LANDING IN LISBON

Chimurenga and Hangar presented Radio MAC , a program curated

PASS LANDING AT KUNSTNERNES HUS, OSLO

From Wednesday, 17 - Saturday, 20 February, 2021, Pan African

CHIMURENGANYANA: THE FEAR AND LOATHING OUT OF HARARE BY DAMBUDZO MARECHERA (DEC 2021)

with supplementary urban map of Harare

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)

That Thing We Dreamed

By Dominique Malaquais

Rumblin’

By Dominique Malaquais

FRANTZ – A STORY OF BONES

By Dominique Malaquais

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

By Dominique Malaquais

Blood Money – A Douala Chronicle

By Dominique Malaquais

LINDELA (The Winnie Suite)

By Dominique Malaquais

The Franc-maçonnerie Suite

by Henri Kala-Lobe and Dominique Malaquais

PAINT THE WHITE HOUSE BLACK – A CALL TO ARMS

By Dominique Malaquais

Chimurenganyana: Home Is Where The Music Is by Uhuru Phalafala (September 2021)

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

War and Spirits

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

PASS LANDING AT LAVOIR MODERNE PARISIEN, PARIS

Between the Lines of an Unpatriotic Presidential Pre-Recorded Address

FOURTH REPUBLIC 19 conducts a post-mortem on not-so-presidential minutes in

RADIO MAC ON PASS – 14-21 June

Chimurenga and Hangar (Lisbon) present Radio MAC live on PASS

BLACK SUNLIGHT – A broadcast for Dambudzo Marechera on his 69th

Remember Glissant

Moses März writes of Édouard Glissant, Martinican, poet and compatriot

CHIMURENGA CHRONIC – IMAGI-NATION NWAR – OUT NOW!

PANAFEST, hosted by Chimurenga

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

POVERTY IS OLDER THAN OPULENCE

Diego Maradona is the man who exploded the shame of

“The Oppressor Remains What He Is”

A conversation between writer Boubacar Boris Diop and scholar Jean-Pierre

Your Own Hand Sold You: Voluntary servitude in the Francafrique

In the CFA franc, the French colonial mission in West

A TRIBUTE TO DON CHERRY’S ORGANIC MUSIC SOCIETY (1967 – 1978)

Chimurenganyana: Becoming Kwame Ture by Amandla Thomas-Johnson (Oct 2020)

BECOMING KWAME TURE – OUT NOW!

The 12th Annual Abdullah Ibrahim Festival

THIRD CLASS CITY

South Africa thinks that India owes it one for putting

Where Terror Lies

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

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

THE POETRY OF ABBEY LINCOLN

Live from 5pm Friday 21 August 2020 panafricanspacestation.org.za

Abbey Lincoln’s Scream: Poetic Improvisation as a Way of Life

We are standing under a glaring spotlight screaming at the

The Meaning of Being Numerous

The man who sets up the bomb is long gone

FESTAC AT 45: FESTAC ’77, a mixtape by Chimurenga

In this mix, we decompose, an-arrange and reproduce the sound-world

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

How Third World Students Liberated the West

In a twist to mainstream tropes of radical student movements

Monumental Failures

By Dominique Malaquais

Reproducing Festac ’77: A secret among a family of millions

Kwanele Sosibo speaks with Ntone Edjabe about the creation of,

Festac at 45: Steal Back the Treasure

In pirating the head of Queen Idia to use it

LEPHEPHE PRINT GATHERINGS 5 – CAPE TOWN

Urbanism Beyond Architecture – African Cities as Infrastructure

Vyjayanthi Rao, in conversation with Filip de Boeck & Abdou

Who Kill Kabila – Angola Mix

We tune into radio trottoir, radio one battery, radio 33,

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,

Frantz Fanon’s Uneven Ribs

For me knowledge is very powerful. Any knowledge has claws

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

New Cartographies

MOLOTOV COCKTAIL

An intellectually militant periodical, first published in 2007

MFUMU’ETO

LAMALIF

HEI VOETSEK!

ECRANS D’AFRIQUE

AFRICAN FILM

Published by Drum in Nigeria and later also Kenya and

Who invented truth

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

A Day in the Life of Idi Amin

The hot dry breeze is lazy. It glides languorously collecting

Where Is This Place

Keguro Macharia asks how might one describe where One Day

How To Be A Dictator

Binyavanga Wainaina presents 16 Rules for Big Man aspirations

WHAT AFRICAN WRITERS CAN LEARN FROM CHEIKH ANTA DIOP

In a testament to Cheikh Anta Diop, Boubacar Boris Diop

PASS is going to Australia!

Neo Muyanga – The Sex For Money No Power Mixtape

Lindela (the winnie suite)

The “Walking Corpse”

EVERY JOURNEY IS A READING

FROM ORLANDO TO ORLANDO

THE MARTYRDOM OF MAYOR ORLANDO

HOLIDAY PLANNING WITH HEI VOETSEK!

AT HOME WITH ZEBULON DREAD/SWAMI SITARAM

The Impossible Death of an African Crime Buster

PORTRAITS OF POWER

Farai Mudzingwa writes about the power vested within the four

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

NONE BUT OURSELVES

BAHUJANAFRIQUE – A PLAUSIBLE FUTURE

ARMY ARRANGEMENT

Poverty is Older than Opulence

Who Killed Kabila?

Who Killed Kabila I

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

Down the footpath

Meeting Marti, Neruda and Langa in the streets…

Last Words to the Nation by  Salvador Allende

Some African Cultural Concepts By Steve Biko

Yahoo Boy No Laptop

The New Thing: Part II*

The Sahara Is Not A Boundary

Maggic Cube

No Congo, No Technology

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

How to Wear a Kitchen

Nollywood Kiss

POLITRICKS IN THE STADIUM

SOMEWHERE NEAR THE BEGINNING OF THE MATCH

PASS LANDING AT FREEDOM PARK, LAGOS

From 23 – 26 June 2016, PASS descended on Freedom

CHIMURENGA@20: SISTER OUTSIDER

Yemisi Aribisala rails against the new fundamentalism cresting the wave

Dear Dr. Schwab, Queen of Jordan

Binyavanga Wainaina responds to an invitation to participate in Young

Creating Theatre: A George Hallett Photo Essay

Variations on the Beautiful in the Congolese World of Sounds

by Achille Mbembe; translated by Dominique Malaquais

A Black Writer Must Write About Sex

Archie Shepp’s Shirt Suggests

By Dominique Malaquais and Cédric Vincent

Rumble in the Nile

The Nimeiri era remains one of the most beguiling and

Islam between Françafrique and Afrabia

Needless to say, Françafrique was not the only constellation of

Under Nelson Mandela Boulevard

CHIMURENGA@20: RELUCTANTLY LOUD

Cape Town is a city with a waiting list of

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

CHIMURENGA@20: SECULAR STORIES

Authenticity counts for something; the confidence that authenticity bestows counts

The New Reading

Some argue that the new media has forever altered our

Under the Caine Bridge

Mapping The Last King of Africa

The Last King of Africa

Manufacturing African Celebrity

Soft Power Desire Machines and the Production of Africa Rising

Pan Africanism in Katanga

Becoming Chimamanda’s Boy

All That is Solid Melts into PR

Mark Fisher speaks to Bongani Kona about the social, economic

Operation Protective Edge

The Undeveloped Intellectual in Zombie-land

Men and their Dogs

Miniature Metamorphoses

Which Africa Are We Talking About?

Shooting From Point Blank Range

Beneath the Underdog

Shifting Gulfward

African War Machines

A Brief History of Mapping

The Chronic Presents a New Cartography for Africa

The Internet is Afropolitan

Gateway

Alex killers are ‘proud’ of attacks on foreigners

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

Dispatches from Beirut

The Story of an African Farm

The Alternative is at Hand

Kangsen Feka Wakai Can’t Breathe

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

Beyond Oppression-Liberation-Maendeleo

Propaganda and Politics tunnel vision history of art activism in South Africa

The New Thing

Midway Between Silence and Speech

Une Hommage à Goddy Leye

Philatelic Pan Africanism

Chronic Apartheid Litigation

Searching for Augusto Zita

The Black Guru

The cosmic lives and afterlives of Zebulon Dread

11 YRS OF DEMONCRAZY!!!

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