A Festac 77 Mixtape featuring Randy Weston, Mandla Langa, Carlos Moore, The Blue Notes, Keorapetse Kgositsile, Michael McMillan, Miriam Makeba, Gilberto Gil, Tabu Ley Rochereau, Ray Lema and of course, Fela Kuti (voiced by Kolade Arogundade).
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STRAIGHT NO CHASER
Named after Thelonious Monk’s classic, Straight No Chaser was a fiercely independent […]
Ibadan, Soutin and the Puzzle of Bower’s Tower
By Chimurenga on September 15, 2020 in Cash & Commerce, Chimurenga Magazine, Gaming, Systems of Governance
The jingle would survive the event, as the poetry of a battle-cry outlives a war, but that eventuality belonged in the future.
RIP Sandile Dikeni
Rest in peace Sandile Dikeni – poet, brother, comrade, a voice of truth and dissent and long time contributor to Chimurenga. We pay respect with this archive of his writing published by Chimurenga.
HIKIMA – a letter from Zaria
She eyed me. A thing wet around her eyes, like water from the evening rain. Lateef, she said, an incurable emphasis on both syllables: Lah-teef.
Souffles
“This slim booklet contains dynamite,” wrote Policy in its 1966 review of […]
MOTO
Moto was founded in 1959 in Zimbabwe’s Midlands town of Gweru as […]
How To Be A Dictator
by Binyavanga Wainaina Rule 1 Be the richest man in your country […]
Chronic Circulations Bibliography
The new addition of the Chronic asks: What is the African imagination […]
The “Walking Corpse”
Thousands of Africans, physically displaced and economically disabled by postcolonial dis-order, confront […]
EVERY JOURNEY IS A READING
By Stacy Hardy My cover is easy. There are a million roles […]
The Emperor of Kinshasa’s Street Comics
By Chimurenga on September 17, 2018 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chimurenga Library, Chronic
by Nancy Rose Hunt Beginning nearly fifty years ago, in 1968, Kinshasa […]
THE BLACK BOMB
Mamadou Diallo channels Carlos Moore, the exiled Cuban who traversed most of […]
No Congo, No Technology
By Chronic on May 29, 2017 in Arts & Pedagogy, Chronic, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
Post-disciplinary artist, Maurice Mbikayi, was born in Kinshasa, in 1974. His country […]
“That Guy No Be Ordinary”
Yemisi Aribisala grapples with the real-time significance of the artist Victor Ehikhamenor, one of his most celebrated works, “The Flower of a Girl”, and the nonsensical brandishing of the banal in the context of Nigerian art as big business.
Pan African Space Station POP-UP at Fondation Cartier, Paris
Pan African Space Station POP-UP at Fondation Cartier, 261 boulevard Raspail, 75014 […]
What We Did After We Lost 100 Years of Wealth
By Agri Ismaïl “World finance had, in 2008, a near-death experience.” The […]
Roger and Me
Akin Adesokan writes in exaltation of the game of tennis, the sheer […]
A Brief History of Monuments
By Stacy Hardy Abbasid Caliph Abu Ja’far al-Mansur, the founder of the ancient city of […]
City Building in Post-Conflict, Post-Socialist Luanda
Burying the Past with Phantasmagorias of the Future By Anne Pitcher […]
Motshumi’s Country
For more than three decades, Mogorosi Motshumi has drawn comics, cartoons and […]
Method After Fela
By Chimurenga on February 6, 2014 in Archive, Arts & Pedagogy, Healing & bodies, Systems of Governance
by Akin Adesokan “You reckon a guy just goes and cuts […]
Shoes
Shoeless and bible blacked, Sandile Dikeni recounts childhood kickabouts on uneven playing fields […]
Stickfighting Days
A good sport? Olufemi Terry summons up the spirit of (K.Sello Duiker’s) Ah-zoo-ray […]
Guilt Trips
Kai Friese interrogates the colonial fantasy that lives on in the sententious […]
Manufacturing the post-election peace: A reporter’s 2013 election diary
Parselelo Kantai watches as NGOs, the media and the state rally together […]
Rest In Peace Chiwoniso Maraire
Zimbabwean musician Chiwoniso Maraire, died on July 24, 2013, at age 37. […]
Dance of the Infidels presents: Nollywood Confidential
starring: Zeb Ejiro, Ajoke Jacobs, Tunde Kelani, and Aquila Njamah Andy learned […]
Hauling Humans: a tricky business for trans-border truckers
Veteran long-distance driver, Aden, has been witness and participant in the business […]
What’s Next
Socially conscious rhymes and hipster swag; sexy dance moves and magical mbira; […]
We Used To Dance
Sandile Dikeni reviews We Used To Dance, an album from Andile Yenana. Listen. […]
The Forest and the Zoo
The Forest and the Zoo* (Aryan Kaganof with Johnny Mbizo Dyani) […]
Our cyborg past: Medieval artificial memory as mindware upgrade
By Ruth Evans The philosopher and cognitive scientist Andy Clark has […]
The Warm Up
The xenophobic violence sweeping many communities in the past weeks is not […]
If you want to see the African Game go to a Stadium
Knox Robinson If you want to see the African Game go to […]
Contributors
A – B – C – D – E – F – G […]
Chimurenganyana: Becoming Kwame Ture by Amandla Thomas-Johnson (Oct 2020)
By Chimurenga on October 21, 2020 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chimurenga Library, Library Book Series, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) was viewed by many during the civil rights […]
BECOMING KWAME TURE – OUT NOW!
By Chimurenga on October 21, 2020 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chimurenga Library, Library Book Series, Media & Propaganda
Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) was viewed by many during the civil rights […]
Nigeria’s Superstar Men Of God
By Chimurenga on September 8, 2020 in Arts & Pedagogy, Chronic, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Systems of Governance
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.
Nigeria’s Superstar Men Of God
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.
Remembering Biafra
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.”
WHO KILLED KABILA: CAST OF CHARACTERS
The cast list of actors and character who make an appearance in the issue includes everyone from Ché Guevara and psychiatrist, political theorist and Frantz Fanon, to Rashidi Muzele, the assassin who pulled the trigger and many more.
POETS WITH GUNS: A CONVERSATION WITH CHIRIKURE CHIRIKURE
Chirikure Chirikure means “that which is far is very far.” He is […]
Crossroads Republic
The Nigerian superstar bandleader Fela Anikulapo-Kuti hosted a covert summit meeting in the summer of 1977.
THE CRICKET – BLACK MUSIC IN EVOLUTION
The editorial in the first issue of The Cricket spells out the […]
PAN AFRICAN SPACE STATION – THOMAS SANKARA 31 YEARS ON
On October 15, 1987, Burkinabe revolutionary idealist and Pan-Africanist, Thomas Sankara was […]
Home draft July
—— THE INVENTION OF […]
PORTRAITS OF POWER
Farai Mudzingwa writes about the power vested within the four corners of the presidential portrait, and the struggle not only to dislodge the presidential image, but also to claim it, to frame it anew.
OF TOTEMS, HISTORY AND POLITICS
In Shona cosmology, people are understood to be more than the sum […]
WRITING AS AN ACT OF GENEROSITY
MAMADOU DIALLO All of our current texts in English or French were, […]