In the launch issue Rustum Kozain muses over the cultural and alternative relations built, negotiations and dealings made as a resident of Cape Town (South Africa); Jean-Christophe Lanquetin’s SAPE Project is captured in a pictorial narrative;
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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.
Chimurenga 5 – Head/Body(&Tools)/Corpses (April 2004)
An issue inspired by the life and work of Bessie Head. Including previously unpublished works by Head, and featuring new writing and art by Jean Claude Fignole,
Contributors
Chimurenga People include: Ntone Edjabe (publisher & editor-in-chief); Stacy Hardy (books & […]
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.
Sortir de la grande nuit. Essai sur l’Afrique décolonisée
« Sortir de la grande nuit. Essai sur l’Afrique décolonisée ». Tel est le titre du dernier livre d’Achille Mbembe qui paraît aux Éditions La Découverte à Paris le 14 octobre. J’ai eu le privilège de lire de manière attentive cet ouvrage riche et très documenté écrit en mémoire de Frantz Fanon et Jean-Marc Éla, deux « penseurs du devenir illimité ».
African Cities Reader I: Pan-African Practices
In the launch issue Rustum Kozain muses over the cultural and alternative relations built, negotiations and dealings made as a resident of Cape Town (South Africa); Jean-Christophe Lanquetin’s SAPE Project is captured in a pictorial narrative;
Chimurenga 5 – Head/Body(&Tools)/Corpses (April 2004)
An issue inspired by the life and work of Bessie Head. Including previously unpublished works by Head, and featuring new writing and art by Jean Claude Fignole,
“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; […]
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
“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 […]
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.
The Chronic (April 2013)
A 48-page newspaper and 40-page stand-alone books review magazine featuring writing, art and photography inflected by the workings of innovation, creativity and resistance.
African Cities Reader III: Land, Property & Value
The third installment of the Reader explores the unholy trinity of land, property and value – the life force of cities everywhere. In this issue António Andrade Tomás reveals the vice and violence that permeate the act of securing land and home in Luanda;
Chimurenga 12/13 – Dr Satan’s Echo Chamber (Double-Issue March 2008)
A double-take on sci-fi and speculative writing from the African world, collectively titled “Dr. Satan’s Echo Chamber” after a dub mix by King Tubby.
Chimurenga 9 – Conversations in Luanda, and Other Graphic Stories (June 2006)
For this one we trawled the globe for ink artists/wordists to give us their perspectives on love, life and the multiverse.
Abbey Lincoln’s Scream: Poetic Improvisation as a Way of Life
By Chimurenga on August 18, 2020 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Music, PASS
We are standing under a glaring spotlight screaming at the tops of our lungs, from the backs of our throats which we grind together to access black blues unwords, thymus against heart, blue in green meridian, that aquamarine plexus that water and sky correct and regulate in us.
Monumental Failures
By Chimurenga on June 19, 2020 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chronic, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
Dominique Malaquais reports from Cameroon on the active objection of one ‘Combattant’ to the negation of many, cast in stone. Decrying these monumental symbols to the least salubrious of colonial exploits, his rebellion is most fitting in a country that stands on ceremony other than its own.
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.”
WHO KILLED KABILA: CAST OF CHARACTERS
The cast list of actors and character who make an appearance in the issue includes everyone from Ché Guevara and psychiatrist, political theorist and Frantz Fanon, to Rashidi Muzele, the assassin who pulled the trigger and many more.
Search Sweet Country
In his first novel, and in conversation with Binyavanga Wainaina, Kojo Laing talks to a future Ghana by exposing its present, full of the jargons and certainties of one dimensional nation building.
Dakar
“Angazi, but I’m sure” is a common South African phrase. In English it means: “I don’t know, but I am sure”. It is a deliberately self-contradictory phrase that is usually spoken in prelude to a reply –
Panafest
From January 15 to February 12 1977, thousands of artists, writers, musicians, activists and scholars from Africa and the black diaspora descended on Lagos,
UNIR CINéMA
Unir Cinéma: Revue du Cinéma Africain was the first periodical entirely devoted […]
THE UN-COLLECTED WRITINGS OF GREG TATE
Greg Tate has spent the last two decades formulating a critical language […]
REVUE NOIRE
Inspired by the growing, vibrant global community of pan African artists and […]
LAMALIF
By Chimurenga on July 8, 2019 in Arts & Pedagogy, Chimurenga Magazine, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
Published in Morocco in 1966, Lamalif took its title from two Arabic […]
L’AUTRE AFRIQUE
As its name suggests, The Other Africa aims to provide a different […]
ECRANS D’AFRIQUE
Founded by African filmmakers in Burkina Faso in 1992, during a period […]
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 […]
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.
Neo Muyanga – The Sex For Money No Power Mixtape
By Chimurenga on December 9, 2018 in Arts & Pedagogy, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Music, PASS
PASS founder, a composer and musician Neo Muyanga highlights the currents and […]
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 […]
Chronic Circulations Bibliography
The new addition of the Chronic asks: What is the African imagination […]
Short Review – The Year of the Rat
Year of the Rat Marc Anthony Richardson FC2/ University of Alabama Press, […]
SUNGURA STORIES
Ranga Mberi travels back in musical time to the 1980s and 1990s, […]
Zidane’s Melancholy
Zidane watched the Berlin sky, not thinking of anything, a white sky […]
Zinedine Zidane and and the event of the secret
By Chimurenga on January 23, 2018 in Arts & Pedagogy, Chimurenga Magazine, Faith & Ideology, Gaming, Systems of Governance
Grant Farred produces a Derridean reading of Zidane’s world-stopping head butt.
To Defend and to Question
By Chimurenga on January 23, 2018 in Archive, Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Gaming, Systems of Governance
Zinedine Zidane has described him as “the greatest footballer of all” and […]
A Secret History of Mr. George Weah
Writing with a view from Yaoundé, Kangsen Wakai tracks football star George […]
A master of bling with feline style
Writing just after the 2011 Africa Cup of Nations, Achille Mbembe* looks […]
No One Will Save You: Remembering Kenya’s Karl Marx
Student movements in many African countries have historically confronted contradictions of colonial […]
ALL I CAN SAY FOR NOW
By Jean-Christophe Lanquetin* During the last five years of Unathi Sigenu’s life, […]
“Angazi, but I’m sure”: A Raw Académie Session
RAW Material Company is a Dakar-based centre for art, knowledge and society; […]
The Way I See It: We Need New Myths
By Shabaka Hutchings Probing the musical narratives of jazz and hip-hop, saxophonist […]
“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.
Politics of Betrayal
Using historian and author Jacob Dlamini’s latest work as a backdrop, Bongani […]
Sexing Africa, Again
Dominique Malaquais spins together Lil’ Kim, burkas, Muslim women, Somali Mata-Haris and […]