FESTAC 77 BOOK – OUT NOW
By Chronic / January 25, 2020
Early in 1977, thousands of artists, writers, musicians, activists and scholars from Africa and the black diaspora assembled in Lagos for FESTAC ’77,,, To many, too many, FESTAC sounded like cacophony – we reproduced its music on the page, decomposed and an-arranged.
Senegal & Festac 77
By Chronic / January 22, 2020
After New York in October 2019, and in the spirit of the trans-continentalism (aka Black World) of the event, we return to Dakar to celebrate the release of Chimurenga’s new publication on FESTAC ’77 – in collaboration with RAW Material Company.
The Trajectory of a Street Photographer
By Chronic / January 20, 2020
My quest for an explanation for this omission in my history education made me appreciate the magnitude of the crime… for the struggle against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. – Santu Mofokeng
TRACKS
By Chronic / January 16, 2020
Kids are becoming priests, because if you are touched or you can see or whatever, these kind of churches, charismatic, big churches, people turn towards looking at ancestors, they turn to the Bible, they turn to look at whatever, because politics: basically were beaten.
Labour Tenants South Western Transvaal
By Chronic / January 15, 2020
“There’s no real vocabulary for the non-photographed of apartheid‟ – Santu Mofokeng
FESTAC 77: PASS landing in New York City
By chimurenga / November 17, 2019
From 23-25 October 2019, Chimurenga’s Pan African Space Station (PASS) at Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries, New York City.
Remembering Biafra
By Chronic / November 13, 2019
In 1968, Nigeria’s finance minister, agricultural produce mogul Obafemi Awolowo declared: “Starvation is a legitimate weapon of war, and we have every intention to use it against the rebels.”