A collection of musings – in words, images and sounds – from beneath the processed skin of Cape Town, by Gabeba Baderoon, Sandile Dikeni, Julian Jonker,
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Chimurenga 6 – Orphans of Fanon (October 2004)
A series of conversations, real and imagined, on the “pitfalls of national consciousness” by Mustapha Benfodil, Achille Mbembe, Charles Mudede,
Reproducing Festac ’77: A secret among a family of millions
By Chimurenga on May 29, 2020 in Archive, Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chimurenga Library, Library Book Series, Media & Propaganda, News
Kwanele Sosibo speaks with Ntone Edjabe about the creation of, and thinking behind, the FESTAC ’77 publication.
Where Is This Place
Bracketed and intersected by 9/11, Mwai Kibaki’s ascent to power, Kenya’s post-election violence, and Barak Obama’s election; written primarily during Binyavanga Wainaina’s residence in the US, or at least away from Kenya; set in Kenya, Uganda, South Africa, Nigeria and the US; and marked by sounds from Congo, South Africa and the US, along with the Kenyan benga; and shifting, frequently, between the confessional and the ethnographic, the nativist and the cosmopolitan, the national and the postnational, how might one describe where One Day I Will Write About This Place lives as it travels?
Liner Notes
As listening trends move rapidly to the online interface, the knowing of […]
“We need more contact zones to create a space for critical discussion, and to propagate and exchange a continuous cultural benefit.”
A conversation between Professor Muyiwa Falaiye and Mudi Yahaya Muyiwa Falaiye: I […]
Undoing the Spell
By Chronic on March 19, 2015 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Systems of Governance
by Ben Verghese. Many of the dominant narratives of the partition focus on […]
Beneath the Underdog
Fighter, soldier, poet, arguably the PR-unit and embodiment of the Economic Freedom […]
Sketches of ‘Trane
Atang Tshikare is a artist and illustrator based in Cape […]
The skin I’m in: Afro-Bengali solidarity and possible futures
Naeem Mohaiemen reviews Vivek Bald’s Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of […]
Chimurenga 7 – Kaapstad! (and Jozi, the night Moses died) (July 2005)
A collection of musings – in words, images and sounds – from beneath the processed skin of Cape Town, by Gabeba Baderoon, Sandile Dikeni, Julian Jonker,
Chimurenga 6 – Orphans of Fanon (October 2004)
A series of conversations, real and imagined, on the “pitfalls of national consciousness” by Mustapha Benfodil, Achille Mbembe, Charles Mudede,
CHIMURENGA@20: STICKFIGHTING DAYS
Everyone knows I’m a two-stick man. But, I’m not ready to go up against Markham again just yet. Or any of the other top stickfighters. I’ve been trying some new moves. I feel close to a breakthrough in terms of technique. But it’s not quite there
CHIMURENGA@20: WHEN YOU KILL US, WE RULE!
By Chimurenga on June 7, 2022 in Arts & Pedagogy, Chimurenga Magazine, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
In 1996, Keziah Jones visited Kalakuta Republic every day for a week to interview Fela Anikulapo Kuti. On the fifth day, after waiting six hours, Keziah got to speak with Fela, who he remarked kept you in “constant and direct eye contact” and spoke “in short bursts of baritone.”
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.
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.
CHIMURENGA@20: Talkin’ ‘bout Survival – The Repatriation of Reggae
By Chimurenga on March 3, 2022 in Arts & Pedagogy, Chimurenga Magazine, Media & Propaganda, Music, Systems of Governance
Where Apartheid and broadcasters divided South Africans culturally, here comes bongo natty dread to motivate U-N-I-T-Y.
The Africans, A Radio Play in Three Acts
By Chimurenga on February 7, 2022 in Faith & Ideology, Media & Propaganda, PASS, Systems of Governance
Worldwide premiere live on PASS – 09-11 February 2022
Festac at 45: Black Sopranos in Handwoven Clothes
By Chimurenga on January 17, 2022 in Cash & Commerce, Chimurenga Library, Faith & Ideology, Gaming, Library Book Series, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
FESTAC was a cultural-cum-intellectual feast funded principally by the military government of Nigeria. For this reason, it is important to highlight the general political climate of the world in the mid-1970s, as it played a role in the choices that the managers of the Nigerian state had to make in bringing about this cultural event.
MEDITATIONS ON JIMI HENDRIX
By Chimurenga on December 9, 2021 in Arts & Pedagogy, Chimurenga Magazine, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies
by Greg Tate
All roads lead to Jimi Hendrix.
Anti-Teleology: Re-Mapping the Imag(in)ed City
By Dominique Malaquais
Pieces of Dominique
By Chimurenga on October 19, 2021 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Cash & Commerce, Faith & Ideology, Gaming, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
The writings, translations and ideas of our dearly departed friend, comrade and co-conspirator Dominique Malaquais (1964-2021), in Chimurenga
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)
ALL I CAN SAY FOR NOW
By Jean-Christophe Lanquetin (translated by Dominique Malaquais)
Out of Sight
By Chimurenga on October 19, 2021 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chimurenga Magazine, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies
A short story by Yambo Ouologuem adapted from the French by Dominique Malaquais and Ntone Edjabe.
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
JOKER’S WILD (SLIGHT RETURN)
By Chimurenga on October 18, 2021 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chimurenga Magazine, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies
By Dominique Malaquais
SEXING AFRICA, AGAIN – POP AS POLITICS: WATCH IT TONIGHT ON HBO
By Chimurenga on October 18, 2021 in Arts & Pedagogy, Cash & Commerce, Chimurenga Magazine, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
By Dominique Malaquais
PAINT THE WHITE HOUSE BLACK – A CALL TO ARMS
By Chimurenga on October 18, 2021 in Arts & Pedagogy, Chimurenga Magazine, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
By Dominique Malaquais
WHO WILL SAVE THE SAVIOURS?
By Chimurenga on August 11, 2021 in Cash & Commerce, Chronic, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
A close gaze at the collective apathy that killed Dr. Sebi
“Angazi, but I’m sure”: A Raw Académie Session
By Chronic on July 21, 2021 in Cash & Commerce, Chimurenga Library, Faith & Ideology, Gaming, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
RAW Material Company is a Dakar-based centre for art, knowledge and society; […]
IMAGI-NATION NWAR
BIBLIOTHEQUE CHIMURENGA AT BPI/CENTRE POMPIDOU, PARIS (2019-21)
Between the Lines of an Unpatriotic Presidential Pre-Recorded Address
By Chimurenga on June 23, 2021 in Chronic, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
FOURTH REPUBLIC 19 conducts a post-mortem on not-so-presidential minutes in recorded Nigerian history.
Chimurenganyana: Even When My Soup-curlers Slur, I Still Keep the Take by Georgia Anne Muldrow (June 2021)
By Chimurenga on June 17, 2021 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chimurenga Library, Healing & bodies, Library Book Series
A limited Chimurenganyana edition of Even When My Soup-Curlers Slur, I Still Keep the Take by Georgia Anne Muldrow is now available.
EVEN WHEN MY SOUP-CURLERS SLUR BY GEORGIA ANNE MULDROW – OUT NOW!
By Chimurenga on June 17, 2021 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chimurenga Library, Healing & bodies, Library Book Series
A limited Chimurenganyana edition of Even When My Soup-Curlers Slur, I Still Keep the Take by Georgia Anne Muldrow is now available.
WHO KILLED KABILA II (APRIL 2019)
So, who killed Kabila? The new issue of the Chronic presents this query as the starting point for an in-depth investigation into power, territory and the creative imagination by writers from the Congo and other countries involved in the conflict.
The Enemy in Her Imagination: A Fable
Rahel first met the young, 11-year old boy, on December 21, 2006. That was the day after the war in Somalia was declared.
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
On the Digital Application of Ancestral Work
African spirituality as practiced digitally was amplified by COVID-19.
“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 […]
Your Own Hand Sold You: Voluntary servitude in the Francafrique
By Chronic on December 28, 2020 in Cash & Commerce, Chronic, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
In the CFA franc, the French colonial mission in West Africa found a way to ensure a paternalist and pernicious stranglehold on the economies of a vast region of the continent.
THIRD CLASS CITY
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.
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.
Where Terror Lies
By Chimurenga on September 15, 2020 in Chronic, Faith & Ideology, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
The rhetoric of ‘radical’ and ‘fundamentalist’ Islam, of ‘global jihad’ and ‘terror’ is, ironically, historical and recoverable from the irrational.
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.
The Invention of Zimbabwe (April 2018)
14 November 2017. News breaks of a coup d’état underway in Zimbabwe. Tanks, armoured vehicles and military personnel are seen patrolling the capital, Harare. The images send shock waves through social media, traditional broadcast news networks and diplomatic channels
Muzmin (July 2015)
In the minds of many, the Sahara exists as a boundary between the Maghreb and “Black Africa”. History and our lived experience tell a different story. The latest issue of Chimurenga’s pan African gazette, the Chronic,
CHE IN THE CONGO, ELECTRIC GUITARS AND THE INVENTION OF AFRICA
Featuring solos by Franco Luambo Makiadi, Pepe Felly Manuaku, Bansimba Baroza, Diblo Dibala, Dally Kimoko, Flamme Kapaya, Sarah Solo, Japonais Maladi and Kimbangu Solo; and commentary by Ray Lema