If one thinks about it the whole thing goes back to amaQheya; the cultural proletariat… a proletariat with a cultural history that has taught it to be careful of an African existence…
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Mafika Gwala speaks to Andrea Meeson about not living in the shadows.
“I have been always where I am today. Why do they speak of me as if I am emerging from the dark?” Mafika Gwala speaks to Andrea Meeson about not living in the shadows.
Chimurenga 16 (Published – October 2011) “The Chimurenga Chronicle”
A once-off edition of a speculative, future-forward newspaper that travels back in […]
Chimurenga 15 (Published – May 2010) “The Curriculum Is Everything”
What could the curriculum be – if it was designed by the […]
Chimurenga 14 (Published – April 2009)
Everyone has their Indian The latest issue of the Cape Town based […]
Chimurenga 12/13 (Published – March 2008) “Dr Satan’s Echo Chamber”
#12 : An all-faxion issue on black technologies no longer secret. It […]
Chimurenga 11 (Published – July 2007) “Conversations with Poets Who Refuse to Speak”
Features a heady mix of words and images that give voice to […]
Chimurenga 10 (Published – December 2006) “Futbol, Politricks and Ostentatious Cripples”
The new issue of Chimurenga is about football. And politics. But no, […]
Chimurenga 9 (Published – June 2006) “Conversations in Luanda, and Other Graphic Stories…”
For this one we trawled the globe for ink artists/wordists to give […]
Chimurenga 8 (Published – December 2005) “We’re All Nigerian!”
An exploration of a love-hate, admiration-envy, awe-disappointment relationship with “Nigerianess”; Features the […]
Chimurenga 7: “Kaapstad! (and Jozi, the night Moses died)” (Published – July 2005)
A collection of musings – in words, images and sounds – from […]
Chimurenga 6: “Orphans of Fanon” (Published – October 2004)
A series of conversations, real and imagined, on the “pitfalls of national […]
Chimurenga 5: “Head/Body(&Tools)/Corpses” (Published – April 2004)
An issue inspired by the life and work of Bessie Head. Including […]
Chimurenga 4: “Black Gays & Mugabes” (Published – May 2003)
On desire and its discontents. Featuring a new adaptation of Yambo Ouologuem […]
Chimurenga 3: “Biko in Parliament” (Published – November 2002)
“Mandela was not the only head of state taken in by Koagne. […]
Chimurenga 2 (Published – June 2002)
“Dis-Covering Home (run nigga run)” Home, lost and found. Takes by Mahmood […]
Chimurenga 1 (Published – April 2002)
“Music Is The Weapon” “…The struggle of black people inevitably appear in […]
Colossal KOUROUMA
What could have happened in his head to take literally this type of injunction quite common in lands of Africa? A sense of the word given? The desire to take seriously the hopes of children who usually have little voice? Mystery.
Writing Nervous By Brian Chikwava
One can argue that great literary works are rarely about good sentences […]
Myriem
an excerpt from Myriem by Boris Boubacar Diop … Fire embassies, it […]