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
A – B – C – D – E – F – G […]
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
CHIMURENGA@20: THE WARM-UP
By Chimurenga on April 19, 2022 in Chimurenga Magazine, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
The xenophobic violence that swept through many communities in South Africa in 2008 was not a sudden phenomenon. Victims and an alleged instigator date the origins of this wave to a township in Pretoria, writes Kwanele Sosibo.
Chimurenganyana: You Look Illegal by Paula Ihozo Akugizibwe (Feb 2022)
By Chimurenga on March 22, 2022 in Books & Oration, Chimurenga Library, Healing & bodies, Library Book Series, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
A mediation on skin, violence, and the limits of citizenship in a country where black lives have long been brutally (mis)handled.
CHIMURENGA@20: A Silent Way – Routes of South African Jazz, 1946-1978
By Chimurenga on March 22, 2022 in Arts & Pedagogy, Chimurenga Magazine, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Music
Where to begin? Which silences? There are many.
You Look Illegal by Paula Ihozo Akugizibwe
By Chimurenga on February 4, 2022 in Chimurenga Library, Healing & bodies, Library Book Series, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
The latest addition to the Chimurenganyana series available now
Ready, Willing & Able
Lolade Adewuyi profiles one of the continent’s most successful football coaches – the Big Boss, as he is widely referred to – and considers the arguments for more faith, more respect and more investment in the abilities of home-grown trainers.
Anti-Teleology: Re-Mapping the Imag(in)ed City
By Dominique Malaquais
Koltan Kills Kids
By Chimurenga on October 19, 2021 in Cash & Commerce, Chimurenga Magazine, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
By Tsuba Ka 23 (Dominique Malaquais, Mowoso, Kongo Astronauts)
Festac at 45: Idia Tales – Three Takes and a Mask*
By Chimurenga on October 18, 2021 in Arts & Pedagogy, Cash & Commerce, Chimurenga Library, Healing & bodies, Library Book Series, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
By Dominique Malaquais and Cedric Vincent
Rumblin’
By Chimurenga on October 18, 2021 in Arts & Pedagogy, Chimurenga Magazine, Faith & Ideology, Gaming, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
By Dominique Malaquais
Blood Money – A Douala Chronicle
By Chimurenga on October 18, 2021 in Arts & Pedagogy, Chimurenga Magazine, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
By Dominique Malaquais
The Franc-maçonnerie Suite
by Henri Kala-Lobe and Dominique Malaquais
Franc-maçonnerie Suite
Uncle Tom or DOM-TOM?
Labour Tenants South Western Transvaal
“There’s no real vocabulary for the non-photographed of apartheid‟ – Santu Mofokeng
IMAGI-NATION NWAR (APRIL 2021)
By Chimurenga on June 14, 2021 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Cash & Commerce, Chronic, Faith & Ideology, Gaming, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
Genealogies of the black radical imagination in the francophone world
Remember Glissant
By Chimurenga on April 12, 2021 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chronic, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
Moses März writes of Édouard Glissant, Martinican, poet and compatriot of the more celebrated Aimé Césaire and Frantz Fanon
CHIMURENGA CHRONIC – IMAGI-NATION NWAR – OUT NOW!
By Chimurenga on March 24, 2021 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Cash & Commerce, Chronic, Maps, Media & Propaganda, Music, Systems of Governance
A new issue of Chimurenga’s Chronic – out now. imagi-nation nwar – […]
POVERTY IS OLDER THAN OPULENCE
By Chimurenga on January 12, 2021 in Chimurenga Magazine, Gaming, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda
Diego Maradona is the man who exploded the shame of the entire world in June 1986, in an historic dribble during a match between Argentina and England.
“The Oppressor Remains What He Is”
By Chimurenga on January 11, 2021 in Books & Oration, Chimurenga Library, Library Book Series, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
Why does it seem that the genocide deniers have perked up? What […]
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
By Dominique Malaquais
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
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.”