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Read the Chimurenga Chronic in German
A special German-language edition of Chimurenga’s pan African gazette, the Chronic is […]
Setting The Pace is a Small Town’s Big Business
The ‘mystique’ of the Kenyan long-distance runner is to be found not […]
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.
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.
Crossroads Republic
The Nigerian superstar bandleader Fela Anikulapo-Kuti hosted a covert summit meeting in the summer of 1977.
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 […]
Crossing Borders Without Leaving
by Keorapetse Kgositsile Returning home, even though just for a short visit, […]
The Divine World of Making Things with My Hands
A conversation with Jackie Karuti by Bongani Kona Jackie Karuti (1987) is […]
Close encounters at the Florida 1000
Tony Mochama goes galactic for a little bump and grind, gives a […]
Portrait of the Artist as a Daughter
by Ed Pavlić. “Where material is absent, dialectics is groundless.” – James Snead, […]
Will the Centre Hold?
In South Africa’s platinum belt, life and politics are as hard-scrabble as […]
Contributors
Chimurenga People include: Ntone Edjabe (publisher & editor-in-chief); Stacy Hardy (books & […]
Y MAGAZINE (THE FIRST 5 ISSUES)
Born in 1998 out of a joint partnership between Studentwise, publishers of […]
The Memory of Victory
Ingrained in the DNA of every male growing up in Senegal is the tradition of Laamb, the Wolof designation for the sport – and by extension the business – of wrestling.
High Class Shanty Town
By Jean-Christophe Lanquetin *translated by Karen Press In Ouakam, on […]
The Shifting Fortunes of a Performing Poet
Post-apartheid poetry and its makers have witnessed the commodification of the art […]
Breaking the Rules Beautifully
by Bwesigye Bwa Mwesigire. “Breaking the rules attracts implications, Jennifer.” I overhear British […]
The Bite and the Embrace
A Letter from Malabo by Recaredo Silebo Boturu. I’m writing from here in […]
AF 888
AF 888 – a letter from above the Mediterranean Sea by Christian Botale […]
Fuzzy Goo’s Guide (to the Earth)
Playing with words, the original Black Heretic Insider Dambudzo Marechera writes his own rulebook […]
The story of a South African firm
In this edited extract from their book, Ethnicity, Inc., Jean and John […]
I Smoked A Spliff With Jesus Christ
I smoked a spliff with Jesus Christ last night. Then leaned over […]
52 Niggers
By Stacy Hardy. Julius Eastman had a way of walking. He had […]