In the launch issue Rustum Kozain muses over the cultural and alternative relations built, negotiations and dealings made as a resident of Cape Town (South Africa); Jean-Christophe Lanquetin’s SAPE Project is captured in a pictorial narrative;
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Pree Under Pressure
WHITE WOMEN’S TEARS – plenty flowed at the launch of the first […]
The Chronic (July 2014)
For the new issue of Chimurenga’s pan African gazette, the Chronic, the […]
Once There Were Humans
In the hills above Kingston, Jamaica Annie Paul unpacks some baggage in […]
African Cities Reader I: Pan-African Practices
In the launch issue Rustum Kozain muses over the cultural and alternative relations built, negotiations and dealings made as a resident of Cape Town (South Africa); Jean-Christophe Lanquetin’s SAPE Project is captured in a pictorial narrative;
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.
THIRD TEXT
“The myth of the internationalism in art must be exploded.” – Rasheed Araeen Third […]
TO REFUSE THAT WHICH HAS BEEN REFUSED TO YOU
By Chimurenga on October 19, 2018 in Archive, Arts & Pedagogy, Cash & Commerce, Featured, Healing & bodies, Systems of Governance
Fred Moten and Saidiya Hartman sit down to talk about the temporal […]
TO REFUSE THAT WHICH HAS BEEN REFUSED TO YOU
Fred Moten and Saidiya Hartman sit down to talk about the temporal […]
Staffriding the Frontline
An Essay by Lesego RampolokengMay 2008 Down from a couple years beyond […]
Staffriding the Frontline – An Essay by Lesego Rampolokeng
May 2008 Down from a couple years beyond 30/30. it was the […]
Le sexe de Matonge
Sony Labou Tansi À Ngalamulume, le Kinois « Nazalaka moluba. Et je […]
The cosmic lives and afterlives of Zebulon Dread
By Chimurenga on July 13, 2014 in Archive, Books & Oration, Faith & Ideology, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
byAchal Prabhala Part 1: Elliot Josephs Elliot Josephs was born in 1958 […]
11 YRS OF DEMONCRAZY!!!
By Chronic on July 2, 2014 in Archive, Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Cash & Commerce, Faith & Ideology, Media & Propaganda
11 YRS OF DEMONCRAZY!!! O nee Got.!! Got!!! Got!! ! I can’t […]
Fifty Years Of African Decolonisation
by Achille Mbembe (translated by Karen Press) Here we are in 2010, fifty […]
Onitsha Republic
Uzor Maxim Uzoatu visits the sprawling city of his childhood in the […]
Lagos Underground
In the 1930s, Harry Beck published a map of the London Underground […]
Platinum Dreams
Anglo American’s boardrooms at 44 Main Street, Joburg, and Carlton House Terrace, […]
Contributors
Chimurenga People include: Ntone Edjabe (publisher & editor-in-chief); Stacy Hardy (books & […]
Fifty Years Of African Decolonisation
In the half-century to come, one aspect of the role of intellectuals, cultural practitioners and African civil society will be to help in articulating a concept of democracy that takes the current struggles as a point of departure, and in addition to ‘internationalise’ the question of African democratisation
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.
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.
We Make Our Own Food (April 2017)
In this issue, we put food back on the table: to restore the interdependence between the mouth that eats and the mouth that speaks, and to delve deeper into the subtle tactics of resistance and private practices that make food both a subversive art and a site of pleasure.
The Chronic (December 2013)
This edition of the Chronic, offers forays into interlaced subjects of power, resistance, protest, mobilisation, mobility and belonging. Marked by an urgency to unsettle divides between opportunism and opportunity, life and liberation, here and there, and then and now-now, the newspaper acts as a platform from which to engage the practices, dilemmas and possibilities of different world.
The Chronic (August 2013)
Writers in the broadsheet include Jon Soske, Paula Akugizibwe, Yves Mintoogue, Adewale Maja-Pearce, Parsalelo Kantai, Fred Moten & Stefano Harney, Cedric Vincent, Deji Toye, Derin Ajao, Tony Mochama, Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah,Agri Ismaïl, Lindokuhle Nkosi, Bongani Kona, Stacy Hardy, Emmanuel Induma, Ugochukwu-Smooth Nzewi, Lolade Ayewudi, Simon Kuper and many others.
The Chronic (April 2013)
A 48-page newspaper and 40-page stand-alone books review magazine featuring writing, art and photography inflected by the workings of innovation, creativity and resistance.
Chimurenga 16 – The Chimurenga Chronicle (October 2011)
A once-off edition of a speculative, future-forward newspaper that travels back in time to re-imagine the present.
Chimurenga 10 – Futbol, Politricks and Ostentatious Cripples (December 2006)
We scope the stadia, markets, ngandas and banlieues to spotlight narratives of love, hate and the wide and deep spectrum of emotions and affiliations that the game of football generates.
Monumental Failures
By Chimurenga on June 19, 2020 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chronic, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
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.
The Trajectory of a Street Photographer
My quest for an explanation for this omission in my history education made me appreciate the magnitude of the crime… for the struggle against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. – Santu Mofokeng
Labour Tenants South Western Transvaal
“There’s no real vocabulary for the non-photographed of apartheid‟ – Santu Mofokeng
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.”
Search Sweet Country
In his first novel, and in conversation with Binyavanga Wainaina, Kojo Laing talks to a future Ghana by exposing its present, full of the jargons and certainties of one dimensional nation building.
The Pharaoh’s New Clothes
By Chronic on July 26, 2019 in Archive, Books & Oration, Chimurenga Library, Faith & Ideology, Systems of Governance
Its location, vocation, and publication intended to speak to a politicised Third World imaginary.
Paris
Chimurenga returned to Paris for a 5-day intervention and installation at La Colonie we installed a live radio station and a research library,
New York
At Performa 2015, the Chimurenga Library took the form of a library-of-people, bringing together a broad spectrum of NYC.
London
For the first UK presentation, Chimurenga infiltrated The Showroom’s building in the form of The Chimurenga Library, inserting ourselves into the existing frameworks,
Showroom Gallery London, UK: 8 October – 21 November 2015
For the first UK presentation, Chimurenga infiltrated The Showroom’s building in the […]
Y MAGAZINE (THE FIRST 5 ISSUES)
Born in 1998 out of a joint partnership between Studentwise, publishers of […]
THE UN-COLLECTED WRITINGS OF GREG TATE
Greg Tate has spent the last two decades formulating a critical language […]
STRAIGHT NO CHASER
Named after Thelonious Monk’s classic, Straight No Chaser was a fiercely independent […]
STAFFRIDER
Borrowing its name and image from township slang for black youth who […]
MOTO
Moto was founded in 1959 in Zimbabwe’s Midlands town of Gweru as […]
MOLOTOV COCKTAIL
By Chimurenga on July 8, 2019 in Books & Oration, Chimurenga Library, Library Book Series, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
First published in 2007 Molotov Cocktail initially appeared to be a contradictory […]
MFUMU’ETO
In the 1990s the self-declared “bedeaste and high priest of painting mystico-African […]
LAMALIF
By Chimurenga on July 8, 2019 in Arts & Pedagogy, Chimurenga Magazine, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
Published in Morocco in 1966, Lamalif took its title from two Arabic […]
L’AUTRE AFRIQUE
As its name suggests, The Other Africa aims to provide a different […]
A Day in the Life of Idi Amin
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.
Discovering Home
Somebody has locked themselves in the toilet. The upstairs bathroom is locked and Frank has disappeared with the keys. There is a small riot at the door, as drunk women with smudged lipstick and crooked wigs bang on the door.
There is always that point at a party when people are too drunk to be having fun; when strange smelly people are asleep on your bed; when the good booze runs out and there is only Sedgwick’s Brown Sherry and a carton of sweet white wine;