They Won’t Go When I Go
By Chronic / 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.
NEW IN BOOKSHOP
By chimurenga / February 20, 2020
Early in 1977, thousands of artists, writers, musicians, activists and scholars from Africa and the black diaspora assembled in Lagos for FESTAC ’77, the 2nd World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture.
LEPHEPHE PRINT GATHERINGS 5 – CAPE TOWN
By chimurenga / February 19, 2020
Calling all printmakers and paper-peoples! In collaboration with our comrades at Keleketla! […]