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
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 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!
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
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
Where to begin? Which silences? There are many.
CHIMURENGA@20: Talkin’ ‘bout Survival – The Repatriation of Reggae
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
Worldwide premiere live on PASS – 09-11 February 2022
Festac at 45: Black Sopranos in Handwoven Clothes
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 Greg Tate
All roads lead to Jimi Hendrix.
Anti-Teleology: Re-Mapping the Imag(in)ed City
By Dominique Malaquais
Pieces of Dominique
The writings, translations and ideas of our dearly departed friend, comrade and co-conspirator Dominique Malaquais (1964-2021), in Chimurenga
Koltan Kills Kids
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
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 Dominique Malaquais and Cedric Vincent
Rumblin’
By Dominique Malaquais
JOKER’S WILD (SLIGHT RETURN)
By Dominique Malaquais
SEXING AFRICA, AGAIN – POP AS POLITICS: WATCH IT TONIGHT ON HBO
By Dominique Malaquais
PAINT THE WHITE HOUSE BLACK – A CALL TO ARMS
By Dominique Malaquais
WHO WILL SAVE THE SAVIOURS?
A close gaze at the collective apathy that killed Dr. Sebi
“Angazi, but I’m sure”: A Raw Académie Session
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
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)
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!
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
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”
Why does it seem that the genocide deniers have perked up? What […]
Your Own Hand Sold You: Voluntary servitude in the Francafrique
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
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
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
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