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.
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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@20: WHEN YOU KILL US, WE RULE!
In 1996, Keziah Jones visited Kalakuta Republic every day for a week to interview Fela Anikulapo Kuti. On the fifth day, after waiting six hours, Keziah got to speak with Fela, who he remarked kept you in “constant and direct eye contact” and spoke “in short bursts of baritone.”
The Chronic (April 2016)
In the fall of 2015, universities across South Africa were engulfed by fires ignited by students’ discontent with the racial discrimination and colonialism that still defines the country’s institutes of higher education.
Chimurenga 7 – Kaapstad! (and Jozi, the night Moses died) (July 2005)
A collection of musings – in words, images and sounds – from beneath the processed skin of Cape Town, by Gabeba Baderoon, Sandile Dikeni, Julian Jonker,
The Chronic (April 2016)
In the fall of 2015, universities across South Africa were engulfed by fires ignited by students’ discontent with the racial discrimination and colonialism that still defines the country’s institutes of higher education.
Reform and Revolution: The Destruction of the University
In the fall of 2015, universities across South Africa were engulfed by […]
How to Approach Heaven
The struggle for freedom is a reckless, foolish and sacrosanct adventure – […]
Dear Chimurenga- The India-Pakistan Division
By Jon Soske The United Nation’s release of the agreement stipulating the […]
‘Nation Is A Skin Stretched Over The Bones Of The State’
Jon Soske struggles to pin down Hamid Parsani, the elusive, mercurial Iranian archaeologist, […]
Chimurenganyana: When You Kill Us, We Rule! by Keziah Jones (June 2009)
Fela Anikulapo Kuti’s Last Interview by Keziah Jones was first published in […]
Chimurenganyana: A Silent Way: Routes of South African Jazz, 1946-1978 by Julian Jonker (June 2009)
“Where to begin? There are, firstly, names: Mankunku, McGregor, Brand. Moeketsi, Moholo, […]
Chimurenga 7 – Kaapstad! (and Jozi, the night Moses died) (July 2005)
A collection of musings – in words, images and sounds – from beneath the processed skin of Cape Town, by Gabeba Baderoon, Sandile Dikeni, Julian Jonker,
CHIMURENGA@20: A Silent Way – Routes of South African Jazz, 1946-1978
Where to begin? Which silences? There are many.
Anti-Teleology: Re-Mapping the Imag(in)ed City
By Dominique Malaquais
THIRD TRANSITION
Shoks Mzolo and Bongani Kona trace the path of South Africa’s transformation from a criminal apartheid state to a criminal neoliberal state
THE SUMMER OF ’69
Writer Pierre Crépon selects recordings illustrating his essay on the American avant-garde jazz in Paris in 1969.
African Cities Reader II: Mobilities & Fixtures
The second installment of the Reader is centered on the theme ‘Mobilities and Fixtures’. In this issue Sean O’Toole interviews architect David Adjaye about African cityscapes, snapshot photography and failed utopias;
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.
Chimurenga 8 – We’re All Nigerian! (December 2005)
An exploration of a love-hate, admiration-envy, awe-disappointment relationship with “Nigerianess”; Features the “last interview”
Chimurenga 2 – Dis-Covering Home [run nigga run] (July 2002)
Home, lost and found. Takes by Mahmood Mamdani, Julian Jonker, Henk Rossouw, Binyavanga Wainaina, Gaston Zossou, Haile Gerima,
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.
FESTAC 77 BOOK (Oct 2019)
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.
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 […]
SPEAR
Spear: Canada’s Truth and Soul Magazine launched in Toronto in 1971 with […]
MOLOTOV COCKTAIL
First published in 2007 Molotov Cocktail initially appeared to be a contradictory […]
Civil Lines
Launched in 1994 by publisher Ravi Dayal, Civil Lines quickly became the home of […]
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.
How To Be A Dictator
by Binyavanga Wainaina Rule 1 Be the richest man in your country […]
BLACKOUT x 7 Octobre
Native Maqari and Keziah Jones Villa Medici channel Fela take on on […]
La République et sa Bête : à propos des émeutes dans les banlieues de France
par Achille Mbembe La France est un vieux pays fier de ses […]
Chronic Circulations Bibliography
The new addition of the Chronic asks: What is the African imagination […]
Spear: Canada’s Truth and Soul Magazine
by Peter James Hudson November 2010 Spear: Canada’s Truth and Soul Magazine launched […]
Staffriding the Frontline
An Essay by Lesego RampolokengMay 2008 Down from a couple years beyond […]
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.
PORTRAIT OF MYSELF AS MY FATHER
A CONVERSATION WITH NORA CHIPAUMIRE Born in Mutare, Zimbabwe, and based in New […]
NONE BUT OURSELVES
The history of reggae in Zimbabwe echoes far beyond Bob Marley’s historic […]
ARMY ARRANGEMENT
News of President Robert Gabriel Mugabe’s imminent ouster from office continues to […]
Staffriding the Frontline – An Essay by Lesego Rampolokeng
May 2008 Down from a couple years beyond 30/30. it was the […]
Down the footpath
Emmanuel Iduma in conversation with photographer Akinbode Akinbiyi On a number of […]
Penpoints, Gunpoints, and Dreams: A history of creative writing instruction in East AfricaFrom the earnest hustle of our elders in writing during the 1960s […]
Dagga
Rustum Kozain muses over the cultural and alternative relations built, negotiations and dealings made as a resident of Cape Town.
brinjals
By Cullen Goldblatt A half teaspoonful of cream of tartar to stop […]
From the earnest hustle of our elders in writing during the 1960s […]
Dagga
Rustum Kozain muses over the cultural and alternative relations built, negotiations and dealings made as a resident of Cape Town.
brinjals
By Cullen Goldblatt A half teaspoonful of cream of tartar to stop […]