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Keorapetse Kgositsile on Johnny Dyani
Jazz was crucial to South African poet Keorapetse Kgositsile‘s most influential idea: […]
The story of a South African firm
In this edited extract from their book, Ethnicity, Inc., Jean and John […]
Contributors
Chimurenga People include: Ntone Edjabe (publisher & editor-in-chief); Stacy Hardy (books & […]
Chimurenganyana: The Making of Mannenberg by John Edwin Mason (June 2012)
By Chimurenga on May 28, 2012 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chimurenga Library, Healing & bodies, Library Book Series, Media & Propaganda
On a winter’s day in 1974, a group of musicians led by […]
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.
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.
“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 […]
Creative Urban Momentum: Witnessing the Black Unity Trio
In anticipation of the release of Black Unity Trios’ legendary album, Al Fatihah, Hasan Abdur-Razzaq recalls witnessing their rehearsals in the late 1960s.
Chimurenganyana: Becoming Kwame Ture by Amandla Thomas-Johnson (Oct 2020)
By Chimurenga on October 21, 2020 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chimurenga Library, Library Book Series, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) was viewed by many during the civil rights […]
BECOMING KWAME TURE – OUT NOW!
By Chimurenga on October 21, 2020 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chimurenga Library, Library Book Series, Media & Propaganda
Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) was viewed by many during the civil rights […]
THE BARD OF BLOEMFONTEIN
Achal Prabhala goes to the heart of the Free State literary renaissance with the “deliberately mysterious and prodigiously talented” Omoseye Bolaji.
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.
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.
The Chronic (August 2013)
Writers in the broadsheet include Jon Soske, Paula Akugizibwe, Yves Mintoogue, Adewale Maja-Pearce, Parsalelo Kantai, Fred Moten & Stefano Harney, Cedric Vincent, Deji Toye, Derin Ajao, Tony Mochama, Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah,Agri Ismaïl, Lindokuhle Nkosi, Bongani Kona, Stacy Hardy, Emmanuel Induma, Ugochukwu-Smooth Nzewi, Lolade Ayewudi, Simon Kuper and many others.
Chimurenga 15 – The Curriculum Is Everything (June 2010)
Presented in the form of a textbook, Chimurenga 15 simultaneously mimics the structure while gutting it.
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 10 – Futbol, Politricks and Ostentatious Cripples (December 2006)
We scope the stadia, markets, ngandas and banlieues to spotlight narratives of love, hate and the wide and deep spectrum of emotions and affiliations that the game of football generates.
How Third World Students Liberated the West
By Chimurenga on June 23, 2020 in Archive, Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chronic, Comics, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Music, Systems of Governance
In a twist to mainstream tropes of radical student movements of the 1960s, and their impact on the history of political thought and action, Pedro Monaville argues that the terrains of the Third World, and particularly the history of student movements in Congo, are vital to explore if we are to makes sense of how that period informs the present.
NEW IN BOOKSHOP
Early in 1977, thousands of artists, writers, musicians, activists and scholars from Africa and the black diaspora assembled in Lagos for FESTAC ’77, the 2nd World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture.
FESTAC 77 BOOK – OUT NOW
Early in 1977, thousands of artists, writers, musicians, activists and scholars from Africa and the black diaspora assembled in Lagos for FESTAC ’77,,, To many, too many, FESTAC sounded like cacophony – we reproduced its music on the page, decomposed and an-arranged.
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.”
Wrestling With A Warlord
Louis Chude-Sokei narrates a story of Nigeria, of splintered identity, of exile, and of the Biafran War and its godfather – his godfather – the military strategist, strongman and celebrated hero, General Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu
FESTAC ’77 Celebration in New York City – 23 – 25 October 2019
From 23 – 25 October 2019, Chimurenga will install its Pan African Space Station (PASS) at The New School’s Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries, New York City.
FESTAC 77 BOOK (Oct 2019)
By Chimurenga on October 1, 2019 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chimurenga Library, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Library Book Series, Media & Propaganda, Music, Systems of Governance
Early in 1977, thousands of artists, writers, musicians, activists and scholars from Africa and the black diaspora assembled in Lagos for FESTAC ’77, the 2nd World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture. With a radically ambitious agenda underwritten by Nigeria’s newfound oil wealth, FESTAC ’77 would unfold as a complex, glorious and excessive culmination of a half-century of transatlantic and pan-Africanist cultural-political gatherings.
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.
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.
Traditional Intellectuals
Izithunywa Zohlanga’s art is the art of combat because it assumes responsibility, and because it is the will to liberty expressed in terms of time and space.
Crossroads Republic
The Nigerian superstar bandleader Fela Anikulapo-Kuti hosted a covert summit meeting in the summer of 1977.
About Chimurenga Magazine
About Chimurenga Magazine Chimurenga Magazine is a pan African publication of culture, […]
TWO TONE
Published in 1954, Two Tone, a quarterly of Rhodesian poetry, signified a radical […]
THE UN-COLLECTED WRITINGS OF GREG TATE
Greg Tate has spent the last two decades formulating a critical language […]
THE LIBERATOR MAGAZINE
“Inspire. Educate. Celebrate.” “Inspire. Educate. Celebrate.” With these words, the founders of […]
THE CRICKET – BLACK MUSIC IN EVOLUTION
The editorial in the first issue of The Cricket spells out the […]
STRAIGHT NO CHASER
Named after Thelonious Monk’s classic, Straight No Chaser was a fiercely independent […]
SAVACOU
In 1974 Barbadian poet Kamau Braithwaite summarized the overlapping realities, the cross-cultural […]
OKYEAME
The post-independence era in Ghana saw the rapid rise of a new […]
HAMBONE
For the last three decades, Nathaniel Mackey, an African-American writer on the […]
GLENDORA REVIEW
Glendora Review was conceived in an atmosphere of intellectual crisis following the […]
Where Is This Place
Bracketed and intersected by 9/11, Mwai Kibaki’s ascent to power, Kenya’s post-election violence, and Barak Obama’s election; written primarily during Binyavanga Wainaina’s residence in the US, or at least away from Kenya; set in Kenya, Uganda, South Africa, Nigeria and the US; and marked by sounds from Congo, South Africa and the US, along with the Kenyan benga; and shifting, frequently, between the confessional and the ethnographic, the nativist and the cosmopolitan, the national and the postnational, how might one describe where One Day I Will Write About This Place lives as it travels?
an excerpt from ‘Hell In Bed With Ms Preprah’ by Binyavanga Wainaina
For the first time in a week, a feeble sun reveals itself. […]
Genres of the Human
In his new book, The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black […]
Chronic Circulations Bibliography
The new addition of the Chronic asks: What is the African imagination […]
THE IDEA OF A BORDERLESS WORLD
The capacity to decide who can move, who can settle, where and […]
The Nigerian Art of Patronage
Deji Toye looks at the legacy of arts funding in Nigeria and […]
HOLIDAY PLANNING WITH HEI VOETSEK!
By Chimurenga on September 20, 2018 in Arts & Pedagogy, Featured, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
And now for an important travel advisory. Planning to visit Johannesburg or […]
Black Images – An Essay by Peter James Hudson
July 2008 The premiere issue of Black Images: A Critical Quarterly of Black […]
The Impossible Death of an African Crime Buster
By Chimurenga on September 18, 2018 in Archive, Books & Oration, Cash & Commerce, Chimurenga Library, Chronic, Media & Propaganda
Spearman… Lance Spearman – the name synonymous with the intrepid hero of […]
Of “Brothers with Perfect Timing”
An Essay by Mike Abraham2008 Germiston station has a very long platform. […]
SUNGURA STORIES
Ranga Mberi travels back in musical time to the 1980s and 1990s, […]