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THIRD TRANSITION
By Chimurenga on July 27, 2021 in Cash & Commerce, Chronic, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
Shoks Mzolo and Bongani Kona trace the path of South Africa’s transformation from a criminal apartheid state to a criminal neoliberal state
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.
“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 […]
They Won’t Go When I Go
By Chimurenga on June 29, 2020 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chronic, Faith & Ideology, Featured, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Music
A Manifesto/ Meditation on State of Black Archives in America and throughout the Diaspora by Harmony Holiday
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.”
POETS WITH GUNS: A CONVERSATION WITH CHIRIKURE CHIRIKURE
Chirikure Chirikure means “that which is far is very far.” He is […]
WHAT AFRICAN WRITERS CAN LEARN FROM CHEIKH ANTA DIOP
In a testament to Cheikh Anta Diop, Boubacar Boris Diop raises radical views on creative writing, a challenge to what he laments as our literary Sahara.
The Tyelera Moment
By Chimurenga on December 8, 2018 in Faith & Ideology, Featured, Healing & bodies, Systems of Governance
by Thabo Jijana On December 13, 2016, in Salem Party Club v […]
THINGS THAT GO IN AND OUT OF THE BODY
How can we think about bodies and circulation without deferring to the […]
PORTRAITS OF POWER
Farai Mudzingwa writes about the power vested within the four corners of the presidential portrait, and the struggle not only to dislodge the presidential image, but also to claim it, to frame it anew.
NONE BUT OURSELVES
By Chimurenga on April 9, 2018 in Arts & Pedagogy, Faith & Ideology, Featured, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
The history of reggae in Zimbabwe echoes far beyond Bob Marley’s historic […]
MURIMI MUNHU
Panashe Chigumadzi travels to the rural Zimbabwe of her ancestors, onto land […]
No One Will Save You: Remembering Kenya’s Karl Marx
Student movements in many African countries have historically confronted contradictions of colonial […]
Bread of Life
Commercial bread contains additives to accelerate production and to improve the look […]
African Cookbooks and Excess Luggage
By Yemisi Aribisala There is a sense of justice and spirit of resignation […]
Qalqalah
Through the fictional character Qalqalah, Sarah Rifky, grapples with the question what is an institution? Speaking […]
“That Guy No Be Ordinary”
Yemisi Aribisala grapples with the real-time significance of the artist Victor Ehikhamenor, one of his most celebrated works, “The Flower of a Girl”, and the nonsensical brandishing of the banal in the context of Nigerian art as big business.
Dansons Donc le Zouglou
By Henri-Michel Yere Déscolarisé In 1980s Côte d’Ivoire, exclusion from the schooling […]
The Amazing Career of Passport Number B957848
By Akin Adesokan (For Larry Siems & Aimee Liu) I The wait […]
A Political Economy of Noise
Kangsen Feka Wakai traces the uncharacteristic journey through a “noisy era” of […]
Sounding the Horn on Reconstruction
The role of art and literature in countries of the Horn of […]
El-Salahi – The Wise Enemy
By Hassan Musa I want to introduce Ibrahim El-Salahi here as “our […]
City Building in Post-Conflict, Post-Socialist Luanda
Burying the Past with Phantasmagorias of the Future By Anne Pitcher […]
Urban Sahara from the Sky
How Capitalism Fixes the Dunes. by Marion Broquère, Armelle Choplin, Simon Nancy Images […]
IRM de la ville de Douala
by Maud De La Chappelle To Didier À Douala, on nomme les […]
The Last King of Africa
Brother Leader, global agitator, anti-imperialist revolutionary, megalomaniacal renegade. The former Libyan leader […]
How to Eat a Forest
Billy Kahora recounts a journey into Kenya’s Mau Forest, where he confronts […]
The Undeveloped Intellectual in Zombie-land
By Chronic on March 19, 2015 in Books & Oration, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda
by Ibrahim Farghali. This is Rakha’s second novel after his début, The Book […]
Beneath the Underdog
Fighter, soldier, poet, arguably the PR-unit and embodiment of the Economic Freedom […]
How to write about Africa
by Boniface Mongo-Mboussa Serpent à Plumes’ republication of Yambo Ouologuem’s Le Devoir de violence […]
Poets Pressing Record(s)
by Harmony Holiday Privacy is dead and the word itself sounds a […]
Poets Are Hurting: Lesego Rampolokeng in Conversation with Mafika Gwala
Mafika Gwala emerged as a significant writer in the 1970s during his […]
Paris-Algiers, Underground Class
by Mustapha Benfodil It’s romance landed me this job. I am a mailman […]
Neo Africanus: In Teju Cole’s World
Teju Cole, author of the award winning book Open City, recently announced […]
The story of a South African firm
In this edited extract from their book, Ethnicity, Inc., Jean and John […]
A Civil Society Of African States
Paula Akugizibwe assumes observer status at the African Union and finds the […]
Monica Maxwell and Samson Botsotso
Scamming the scammers? Though a buzzing of charades, of tall tales, of […]
Diary Of A Bad Year
Diary Of A Bad Year: President Mbeki’s Letters to the Nation by […]
New Bushs Old Ghosts
Cyber crime is a burgeoning business in West Africa, despite often primitive […]
EU fortifies its mission on North African frontline
Supported by Libya and Tunisia, the European Union is ringing the Mediterranean […]
52 Niggers
By Stacy Hardy. Julius Eastman had a way of walking. He had […]
Platinum Dreams
Anglo American’s boardrooms at 44 Main Street, Joburg, and Carlton House Terrace, […]
The Quiet Encroachment of the Ordinary
Asef Bayat A traveller to Middle Eastern cities, Tehran, Cairo or Rabat […]
In Search of Yambo
Christopher Wise Yambo Ouologuem, the Malian author of Le devoir de violence […]