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Ground / Overground / Underground
By MOWOSO (translated by Dominique Malaquais)
Pieces of Dominique
By Chimurenga on October 19, 2021 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Cash & Commerce, Faith & Ideology, Gaming, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
The writings, translations and ideas of our dearly departed friend, comrade and co-conspirator Dominique Malaquais (1964-2021), in Chimurenga
Koltan Kills Kids
By Chimurenga on October 19, 2021 in Cash & Commerce, Chimurenga Magazine, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
By Tsuba Ka 23 (Dominique Malaquais, Mowoso, Kongo Astronauts)
READING FRED HO
Gwen Ansell and Salim Washington celebrate the revolutionary life, language and hard-ass leadership of an unconventional saxophonist, composer and generous collaborator.
WHO KILLED KABILA II (APRIL 2019)
So, who killed Kabila? The new issue of the Chronic presents this query as the starting point for an in-depth investigation into power, territory and the creative imagination by writers from the Congo and other countries involved in the conflict.
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.
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.
TRACKS
By Chimurenga on July 29, 2020 in African Cities Reader, Arts & Pedagogy, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies
MADEYOULOOK collective met with photographer Santu Mofokeng to establish the point of crossroads, where things are in motion and where things remain still
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.
The Chronic: Who Killed Kabila
On January 16, 2001, in the middle of the day, shots are heard in the Palais de Marbre,the residence of President Laurent-Désiré Kabila.
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.
Paris
Chimurenga returned to Paris for a 5-day intervention and installation at La Colonie we installed a live radio station and a research library,
London
For the first UK presentation, Chimurenga infiltrated The Showroom’s building in the form of The Chimurenga Library, inserting ourselves into the existing frameworks,
Showroom Gallery London, UK: 8 October – 21 November 2015
For the first UK presentation, Chimurenga infiltrated The Showroom’s building in the […]
THIRD TEXT
“The myth of the internationalism in art must be exploded.” – Rasheed Araeen Third […]
OKYEAME
The post-independence era in Ghana saw the rapid rise of a new […]
MFUMU’ETO
In the 1990s the self-declared “bedeaste and high priest of painting mystico-African […]
HAMBONE
For the last three decades, Nathaniel Mackey, an African-American writer on the […]
The Chronic: Who Killed Kabila II
By Chimurenga on April 1, 2019 in Books & Oration, Cash & Commerce, Chronic, Faith & Ideology, Library Book Series, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
On January 16, 2001, in the middle of the day, shots are heard in the Palais de Marbre,the residence of President Laurent-Désiré Kabila. The road bordering the presidential residence, usually closed from 6pm by a simple guarded barrier is blocked by tanks.
Pungwe Sound Trails Live On PASS
Pan African Space Station hosts Pungwe Sound Trails with @machirirobert Thursday, 06 […]
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 […]
FOUR GROUND-BREAKING THINGS IN FIVE ISSUES OF CIVIL LINES OR, WAYS TO GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF THE POSTCOLONIAL SAND
an essay by Vivek Narayanan [Note: while preparing this piece, I benefited greatly […]
Doctor Philip Tabane Lives On
We give thanks and praise to enigmatic, innovative seer and composer-band leader […]
Short Review – The Year of the Rat
Year of the Rat Marc Anthony Richardson FC2/ University of Alabama Press, […]
THE BLACK BOMB
Mamadou Diallo channels Carlos Moore, the exiled Cuban who traversed most of […]
MURIMI MUNHU
Panashe Chigumadzi travels to the rural Zimbabwe of her ancestors, onto land […]
Who Killed Kabila?
The Pan African Space Station/Chimurenga Library at La Colonie, Paris 13 December […]
The Divine World of Making Things with My Hands
A conversation with Jackie Karuti by Bongani Kona Jackie Karuti (1987) is […]
Dictionary of SA Elections 2014
by Willem Boshoff Aa albocracy Government by “white” men or Europeans. The […]
La Colonie, Paris: 13 – 17 December 2017
Chimurenga returned to Paris for a 5-day intervention and installation at La Colonie we […]
A Brief History of Fufu Pounding
The preparation of fufu is a far from the drudgery and waste of time bemoaned by the World Bank.
No Congo, No Technology
By Chronic on May 29, 2017 in Arts & Pedagogy, Chronic, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
Post-disciplinary artist, Maurice Mbikayi, was born in Kinshasa, in 1974. His country […]
Pan African Activism Meets Mamdanisation
By Chronic on April 11, 2017 in Archive, Arts & Pedagogy, Cash & Commerce, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
Theory and practice have been butting heads at Makerere University’s Institute of […]
Survivor’s Guide to Smelling Naais
In the pre-Apocalypse, Zayaan Khan nurses the Apartheid hangover that carved up […]
Calabar Winch
By Akin Adesokan I When the goddess of happy accidents stumbles on […]
Rented Grave: Looking beyond the rural-urban dichotomy
Commonplace readings of Africa narrate the village as a segregated space, its […]
Time to Bleed
An extended conversation between Aryan Kaganof and Walter Mignolo What I […]
Marcus Garvey is Alive in East Africa
A university in eastern Uganda, named in honour of the pan African […]
Focusing the Fashionable Mind
The parochialism and pretence emanating from some South African human rights organisations […]
Ready, Willing and Able
Lolade Adewuyi profiles one of the continent’s most successful football coaches – […]
Gospel Christian Porn Rap
Fucking with the puritanical social mores that pervade the world’s most religious […]
Close encounters at the Florida 1000
Tony Mochama goes galactic for a little bump and grind, gives a […]
Love and Learning Under the World Bank
Stacy Hardy recounts seventeen stories of the hierarchies, the anti-heroes, the hard […]
A Political Economy of Noise
Kangsen Feka Wakai traces the uncharacteristic journey through a “noisy era” of […]
Together in the Picture
John Peffer scans the photographic styles that image a black South African […]
City Building in Post-Conflict, Post-Socialist Luanda
Burying the Past with Phantasmagorias of the Future By Anne Pitcher […]
Manufacturing African Celebrity
Jesse Weaver Shipley* explores the power of celebrity in contemporary African pop culture […]