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Category: Systems of Governance

Airport Theatre, African Villain

Martin Kimani navigates airport theatrics, from crotch explosives to sniffer

Threatening the Hormonal Stability of Imbeciles

Stacy Hardy interviews author of 'Senselessness' Horacio Castellanos Moya

Senselessness

Stacy Hardy reviews the English translation of Horacio Castellanos Moya‘s

A PASSPORT BY ANY OTHER NAME

The concept of an Africa without borders for Africans remains

NGUGI WA THIONG’O – THE WRITER IN POST-COLONIAL AFRICA with an introduction by Ari Sitas

Live on PASS from 6.30pm

The Power of Green Crayons

Agri Ismaïl recalls growing up off the map... belonging to

The University of Soweto

Frank B. Wilderson draws from his memory of student protests

Sungura Stories

Ranga Mberi travels back in musical time to the 1980s

A Night with a Elephant – a live reading

We are delighted to present a live reading of "Night

IZIMPABANGA ZOMHLABA – Ukulalela ukufundwa kwesiqephu noNombuso Mathibela

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

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

BUILDING THE HOUSE OF LIFE

Ayi Kwei Armah traces the contour of an old conflict

pumflet ‘hophuis’

'hophuis' documents a series of journeys to and activations made

50 Years Ago: Zeke in Nigeria

Es’kia Mphahlele and the Anti-Apartheid Association of Nigeria

Calabash Afrobeat Poems

Dike Okoro interviews Ikwunga Wonodi

Guilt Trips

Kai Friese interrogates the colonial fantasy that lives on in

Never, ever let any monster abuse your science!

Renfrew Christie's Speech to the Science Graduation Ceremony of the

Notes for an Oratorio on small things that fall

Aditi Hunma reviews the launch of Notes for an Oratorio

La Discothèque de Sarah Maldoror (tracklisting)

decomposed, an-arranged, and reproduced by Ntone Edjabe

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: MURIMI MUNHU

Panashe Chigumadzi travels to the rural Zimbabwe of her ancestors,

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Enemy in Her Imagination: A Fable

Rahel first met the young, 11-year old boy, on December

Remember Glissant

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

CHIMURENGA CHRONIC – IMAGI-NATION NWAR – OUT NOW!

“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

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

THIRD CLASS CITY

South Africa thinks that India owes it one for putting

Ibadan, Soutin and the Puzzle of Bower’s Tower

The jingle would survive the event, as the poetry of

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

The Meaning of Being Numerous

The man who sets up the bomb is long gone

How Third World Students Liberated the West

In a twist to mainstream tropes of radical student movements

Monumental Failures

By Dominique Malaquais

Urbanism Beyond Architecture – African Cities as Infrastructure

Vyjayanthi Rao, in conversation with Filip de Boeck & Abdou

Remembering Biafra

In 1968, Nigeria's finance minister, agricultural produce mogul Obafemi Awolowo

Wrestling With A Warlord

Louis Chude-Sokei narrates a story of Nigeria, of splintered identity,

HOW THE WEST WAS LOST

If one thinks about it the whole thing goes back

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

The Agronomist

Stacy Hardy follows the path of JJ Machobane, the social

The Pharaoh’s New Clothes

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

Who Killed Kabila

New Cartographies

MOLOTOV COCKTAIL

An intellectually militant periodical, first published in 2007

LAMALIF

A Day in the Life of Idi Amin

The hot dry breeze is lazy. It glides languorously collecting

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!

BLACKOUT x 7 Octobre

The Tyelera Moment

La République et sa Bête : à propos des émeutes dans les banlieues de France

Lindela (the winnie suite)

Dislocations in the Congolese World of Sound

TO REFUSE THAT WHICH HAS BEEN REFUSED TO YOU

The “Walking Corpse”

EVERY JOURNEY IS A READING

FROM ORLANDO TO ORLANDO

THE MARTYRDOM OF MAYOR ORLANDO

THINGS THAT GO IN AND OUT OF THE BODY

TO REFUSE THAT WHICH HAS BEEN REFUSED TO YOU

THE IDEA OF A BORDERLESS WORLD

HOLIDAY PLANNING WITH HEI VOETSEK!

Black Images – An Essay by Peter James Hudson

PORTRAITS OF POWER

Farai Mudzingwa writes about the power vested within the four

OF TOTEMS, HISTORY AND POLITICS

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

The Making of the Impossible

THE BLACK BOMB

NONE BUT OURSELVES

THE WAY I SEE IT – National Heroes Acre I

MURIMI MUNHU

MILKING A DYING COW

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

BAHUJANAFRIQUE – A PLAUSIBLE FUTURE

ARMY ARRANGEMENT

A BRIEF HISTORY OF CHIMURENGA AS A COMMUNAL LABORATORY

Poverty is Older than Opulence

New Trade Routes: Soccer Cities

Zinedine Zidane and and the event of the secret

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

To Defend and to Question

A master of bling with feline style

Who Killed Kabila?

Who Killed Kabila I

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

Meeting Marti, Neruda and Langa in the streets…

Last Words to the Nation by  Salvador Allende

Dictionary of SA Elections 2014

Some African Cultural Concepts By Steve Biko

The Definition Of Black Consciousness by Bantu Stephen Biko

It seeks to infuse the black community with a new-found

A Brief History of Fufu Pounding

The preparation of fufu is a far from the drudgery

The Sahara Is Not A Boundary

A Letter from a Homeless Prodigal

No Congo, No Technology

Second Transition

In Bond We Trust?

Nearly a decade on from the worst postcolonial turmoil that

Dear President Museveni

Radical Rudeness

Grandmothers Teaching: A view from South Africa

Between: The state and Bhut’ Joe, the frequency and the future

An exchange between Julie Nxadi and Asher Gamedze unravels the

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

Dagga

Rustum Kozain muses over the cultural and alternative relations built,

Bread of Life

brinjals

POLITRICKS IN THE STADIUM

FOOTBALL CANNOT GO FASTER THAN POLITICS

Marikana

Debt and Study

Qalqalah

The Mission of Forgetting

CHIMURENGA@20: SISTER OUTSIDER

Yemisi Aribisala rails against the new fundamentalism cresting the wave

Reform and Revolution at the University of Lovanium

Marcus Garvey is Alive in East Africa

How to Approach Heaven

Four Days in June

Focusing the Fashionable Mind

Come On Up, Sweetheart

A Brief History of Student Protests

Hanging Participle

Justino

The Amazing Career of Passport Number B957848

Valladolid is not Spain, but it is

Close encounters at the Florida 1000

A Political Economy of Noise

Q&A with Mehari Taddele Maru

Interview with Raila Odinga

Dear Chimurenga- The India-Pakistan Division

Archie Shepp’s Shirt Suggests

By Dominique Malaquais and Cédric Vincent

A Brief History of Monuments

Season’s Greetings

The African Affairs Bureau

Rumble in the Nile

The Nimeiri era remains one of the most beguiling and

El-Salahi – The Wise Enemy

Islam between Françafrique and Afrabia

Needless to say, Françafrique was not the only constellation of

Lotus Magazine

Trajectories of the Sudanese Gulf

Nasser and the African Revolution

Qibla

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

Dispossessed Vigils

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

Mapping The Last King of Africa

In a Time of Boko Haram

Bordering on Borana

Pwani Si Kenya

The Last King of Africa

Secret Countries

How to Eat a Forest

Living Dangerously in Petroluanda

The Institute

Soft Power Desire Machines and the Production of Africa Rising

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