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Migration Business is Good Business
Jean-Christophe Servant argues that while Africa is being welcomed into the pool […]
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;
ALL I CAN SAY FOR NOW
By Jean-Christophe Lanquetin* During the last five years of Unathi Sigenu’s life, […]
High Class Shanty Town
By Jean-Christophe Lanquetin *translated by Karen Press In Ouakam, on […]
African Cities Reader Three is Out Now
The African Cities Reader is a biennial publication that brings together contributors […]
Contributors
Chimurenga People include: Ntone Edjabe (publisher & editor-in-chief); Stacy Hardy (books & […]
Urbanism Beyond Architecture – African Cities as Infrastructure
Vyjayanthi Rao, in conversation with Filip de Boeck & Abdou Maliq Simone […]
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.”
A Day in the Life of Idi Amin
The hot dry breeze is lazy. It glides languorously collecting odd bits of paper, they tease the ground, threaten to take flight, tease the ground.
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 […]
Festac ’77 – a faction by Akin Adesokan
Was Festac 77 curated by Esu Elegba? Akin Adesokan’s faction explores art […]
The “Walking Corpse”
Thousands of Africans, physically displaced and economically disabled by postcolonial dis-order, confront […]
THE MARTYRDOM OF MAYOR ORLANDO
by Moses Marz Elected four times as mayor of Palermo over a period […]
MURIMI MUNHU
Panashe Chigumadzi travels to the rural Zimbabwe of her ancestors, onto land […]
To Defend and to Question
Zinedine Zidane has described him as “the greatest footballer of all” and […]
Culture And Resistance In South Africa
by Keorapetse Kgositsile Keynote address from the Culture and Resistance Symposium (1982) […]
Dagga
Rustum Kozain muses over the cultural and alternative relations built, negotiations and dealings made as a resident of Cape Town.
Third Transition
Shoks Mzolo and Bongani Kona trace the path of South Africa’s transformation […]
The University of Soweto
Frank B. Wilderson draws from his memory of student protests in 1993 […]
Protected: Sister Outsider
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How to Approach Heaven
The struggle for freedom is a reckless, foolish and sacrosanct adventure – […]
A Brief History of Student Protests
By Stacy Hardy “Bile bums my inside!/ I feel like vomiting! For […]
A Political Economy of Noise
Kangsen Feka Wakai traces the uncharacteristic journey through a “noisy era” of […]
Entretien Bouchra Khalili
An interview with Bouchra Khalili by Cedric Vincent Bouchra Khalili (née à Casablanca […]
“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 […]
Secular Stories
“Spare a thought for secularism. One month into the life of The […]
Re-Membering the Name of God
Wendell Hassan Marsh maps the trajectories of Islam as it evolved in […]
Pwani Si Kenya
Despite years of development promises from Kenya’s central government, the Coast remains […]
How Kenya Exploded In My Heart
A letter from Harare by Petina Gappah I once lived in a […]
Buru Buru
Billy Kahora reflects on the state of the ‘estate’ of his Nairobi […]
Happy Valentine’s Day
Exactly twenty five years ago today, Salman Rushdie received an unusual Valentine: a […]
Setting The Pace is a Small Town’s Big Business
The ‘mystique’ of the Kenyan long-distance runner is to be found not […]
The story of a South African firm
In this edited extract from their book, Ethnicity, Inc., Jean and John […]
Dance of the Infidels presents: Nollywood Confidential
starring: Zeb Ejiro, Ajoke Jacobs, Tunde Kelani, and Aquila Njamah Andy learned […]
Monica Maxwell and Samson Botsotso
Scamming the scammers? Though a buzzing of charades, of tall tales, of […]
The Rise Of Somali Capital
The increasingly visible presence of the Somali community in Nairobi during a […]
Fish Soup As Love Potions
Yemisi Aribisala lives in Calabar in Cross River State, where the scent […]
Elvis on the move
Milton Papamoscito An unfamiliar congregation – in ‘a riot of electric red […]
Juba ‘I will make my life here’
The metronomes of ancient history, the legacy of war, the wavering prosperity […]
Ten Pieces of Advice for the Writing Life
Read to become a better writer. This sounds like “eat to become stronger” and in a way reading is the food of the creative process. Read for all the reasons a reader reads but also read for inspiration, read to be influenced, read in order to pick up tricks and techniques, read in order to answer the questions, “How on earth did the author pull this off? How on earth did he/she get away with this?”