Ibadan, Soutin and the Puzzle of Bower’s Tower
By Chimurenga / September 15, 2020
The jingle would survive the event, as the poetry of a battle-cry outlives a war, but that eventuality belonged in the future.
Where Terror Lies
By Chimurenga / September 15, 2020
The rhetoric of ‘radical’ and ‘fundamentalist’ Islam, of ‘global jihad’ and ‘terror’ is, ironically, historical and recoverable from the irrational.
Nigeria’s Superstar Men Of God
By Chimurenga / September 8, 2020
Who needs the God of the bible with his promises of trials and tribulations, crosses and paths of repentance? Yemisi Aribisala listens to the sermons, counts the money, watches the high-flying life of Nigeria’s mega-preachers and wonders.
De l’art de vivre l’art
By Chimurenga / August 28, 2020
Goddy Leye nous a quittés. C’était le 19 février 2011, peu après minuit. A Karachi, au bord du désert, où jamais il ne pleut en cette saison, le ciel s’est ouvert. Averse. A l’aube, à l’heure du premier appel des muezzins, il pleuvait encore. J’écris là-bas ces mots pour l’ami, le mentor, le camarade Goddy. Douleur sourde, de celles qui ne passent pas. Qui ne peuvent et ne doivent pas passer.
THE POETRY OF ABBEY LINCOLN
By Chimurenga / August 20, 2020
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Abbey Lincoln’s Scream: Poetic Improvisation as a Way of Life
By Chimurenga / August 18, 2020
We are standing under a glaring spotlight screaming at the tops of our lungs, from the backs of our throats which we grind together to access black blues unwords, thymus against heart, blue in green meridian, that aquamarine plexus that water and sky correct and regulate in us.
The Meaning of Being Numerous
By Chimurenga / August 5, 2020
The man who sets up the bomb is long gone before it goes off.