A Day in the Life of Idi Amin
By Chimurenga / May 27, 2019
The hot dry breeze is lazy. It glides languorously collecting odd bits of paper, they tease the ground, threaten to take flight, tease the ground.
A Petition for Mongo Beti
By Chimurenga / May 6, 2015
Patrice Nganang recalls the duel between politics and the literary sphere in 1990s Yaoundé – a time when the campaign for ‘democracy’ exposed the chiasmus that is the Cameroonian intelligence, and the words of Mongo Beti ignited a movement for dissent, return and reconstruction.
THIRD CLASS CITY
By Chimurenga / October 5, 2020
South Africa thinks that India owes it one for putting Gandhi through revolution school; India thinks South Africa owes it for sending him over to show the natives how it’s done.
The 12th Annual Abdullah Ibrahim Festival
By Chimurenga / October 9, 2020
THE BARD OF BLOEMFONTEIN
By Chimurenga / October 5, 2020
Achal Prabhala goes to the heart of the Free State literary renaissance with the “deliberately mysterious and prodigiously talented” Omoseye Bolaji.
The Memory of Victory
By Chimurenga / April 5, 2016
Ingrained in the DNA of every male growing up in Senegal is the tradition of Laamb, the Wolof designation for the sport – and by extension the business – of wrestling.
Islam between Françafrique and Afrabia
By Chimurenga / June 10, 2015
Needless to say, Françafrique was not the only constellation of capital and culture on offer at the time of African political independence.