Yellow Fever, Nko?
By chimurenga / July 24, 2020
Skin bleaching is often described as a manifestation of ‘colo-mentality’. However, argues Bibi Bakare-Yusuf, mimesis here is both an affirmation and a contestation of power.
RIP PAPA GEORGE
By chimurenga / July 2, 2020
Exile demands contemplation because it is unavoidably real for those who experience […]
They Won’t Go When I Go
By chimurenga / June 29, 2020
A Manifesto/ Meditation on State of Black Archives in America and throughout the Diaspora by Harmony Holiday
How Third World Students Liberated the West
By chimurenga / June 23, 2020
In a twist to mainstream tropes of radical student movements of the 1960s, and their impact on the history of political thought and action, Pedro Monaville argues that the terrains of the Third World, and particularly the history of student movements in Congo, are vital to explore if we are to makes sense of how that period informs the present.
Monumental Failures
By chimurenga / June 19, 2020
Dominique Malaquais reports from Cameroon on the active objection of one ‘Combattant’ to the negation of many, cast in stone. Decrying these monumental symbols to the least salubrious of colonial exploits, his rebellion is most fitting in a country that stands on ceremony other than its own.
Reproducing Festac ’77: A secret among a family of millions
By chimurenga / May 29, 2020
Kwanele Sosibo speaks with Ntone Edjabe about the creation of, and thinking behind, the FESTAC ’77 publication.
Steal Back the Treasure
By Chronic / February 21, 2020
In pirating the head of Queen Idia to use it as a logo for Festac 77 , proposes another dissonant route that challenges the very idea of the work of art as unique object.