In the pre-Apocalypse, Zayaan Khan nurses the Apartheid hangover that carved up […]
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Sexing Africa, Again
Dominique Malaquais spins together Lil’ Kim, burkas, Muslim women, Somali Mata-Haris and […]
Franc-maçonnerie Suite
By Dominique Malaquais 1st Movement : Uncle Tom or DOM-TOM? Il y a […]
The Power of Wikipedia: Legitimacy and Control
The most astonishing global source of knowledge has the power to act […]
Speech to the Science Graduation Ceremony of the University of Witwatersrand, 2008
By Chronic on August 4, 2013 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Healing & bodies, Systems of Governance
Good Evening. I will use my own life history tonight to argue […]
Contributors
Chimurenga People include: Ntone Edjabe (publisher & editor-in-chief); Stacy Hardy (books & […]
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.
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.
Frantz Fanon’s Uneven Ribs
By Chimurenga on September 7, 2019 in Books & Oration, Featured, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
For me knowledge is very powerful. Any knowledge has claws and teeth. If you don’t see the teeth and the claws then it is useless, then somebody has emasculated it.
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;
DISCOVERING HOME
By Binyavanga Wainaina (Winner of The Caine Prize 2002) Chapter one THERE […]
The Most Authentic Real Black Africanest Togo Soccer team Story
by Binyavanga Wainaina I meet Alex at breakfast in Accra. He is […]
Poverty is Older than Opulence
By Chimurenga on January 23, 2018 in Faith & Ideology, Gaming, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
Maverick Serbian filmmaker, Emir Kusturica (Time of the Gypsies; Underground), talks with […]
Who Will Save The Saviours?
By Chronic on April 5, 2017 in Cash & Commerce, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Systems of Governance
A close gaze at the collective apathy that killed Dr. Sebi: In […]
Dagga
By Chimurenga on April 5, 2017 in African Cities Reader, Arts & Pedagogy, Healing & bodies, Systems of Governance
Rustum Kozain muses over the cultural and alternative relations built, negotiations and dealings made as a resident of Cape Town.
The Amazing Career of Passport Number B957848
By Akin Adesokan (For Larry Siems & Aimee Liu) I The wait […]
Under Nelson Mandela Boulevard
By Chronic on June 4, 2015 in Archive, Cash & Commerce, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
A Story About Cape Town’s Tanzanian Stowaways By Sean Christie Images by David […]
Reluctantly Loud
Interventions in the History of a Land Occupation By Koni Benson and Faeza […]
Secular Stories
“Spare a thought for secularism. One month into the life of The […]
Pwani Si Kenya
Despite years of development promises from Kenya’s central government, the Coast remains […]
A Geography of Times and Affects
by Marissa Moorman. An Angolan friend of mine refuses to read Ondjaki. […]
Not only our land but also our souls
Andile Mngxitama challenges historical and contemporary rhetoric that positions land theft in […]
Happy Valentine’s Day
Exactly twenty five years ago today, Salman Rushdie received an unusual Valentine: a […]
Birthing the American
Yemisi Aribisala explores, with mixed emotions, the enduring opportunism of a Nigerian elite that ensures that generations of children claim US birthright. Despite the assumed status that goes with being born “abroad”, the American dream, she argues, is in fact only a Nigerian backup plan.
Shoes
Shoeless and bible blacked, Sandile Dikeni recounts childhood kickabouts on uneven playing fields […]
Manufacturing the post-election peace: A reporter’s 2013 election diary
Parselelo Kantai watches as NGOs, the media and the state rally together […]
In Defense Of The Films We Have Made
by Odia Ofeimun On the theme of Motion Picture as a tool […]
Home and away
Niq Mhlongo recently launched his new book Way Back Home in his […]
Monica Maxwell and Samson Botsotso
Scamming the scammers? Though a buzzing of charades, of tall tales, of […]
Dr Satan’s Echo Chamber
Reggae, technology and the diaspora… Louis Chude-Sokei documents the transatlantic (un)making of […]