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
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Chimurenganyana: Dr Satan’s Echo Chamber by Louise Chude-Sokei (June 2012)
Reggae, technology and the diaspora: Louis Chude-Sokei documents the (un)making of Dr. […]
The Chronic (December 2013)
This edition of the Chronic, offers forays into interlaced subjects of power, resistance, protest, mobilisation, mobility and belonging. Marked by an urgency to unsettle divides between opportunism and opportunity, life and liberation, here and there, and then and now-now, the newspaper acts as a platform from which to engage the practices, dilemmas and possibilities of different world.
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 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.
Genres of the Human
In his new book, The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black […]
Chimurenganyana
Chimurenganyana, a pavement literature project consisting of low cost serialized monographs expanding […]
New Bush, Old Ghosts
Cyber crime is a burgeoning business in West Africa, despite often primitive […]
The Chronic (December 2013)
This edition of the Chronic, offers forays into interlaced subjects of power, resistance, protest, mobilisation, mobility and belonging. Marked by an urgency to unsettle divides between opportunism and opportunity, life and liberation, here and there, and then and now-now, the newspaper acts as a platform from which to engage the practices, dilemmas and possibilities of different world.
The Chronic (December 2013)
The new edition of pan African quarterly, the Chronic, offers forays into […]
New Bushs Old Ghosts
Cyber crime is a burgeoning business in West Africa, despite often primitive […]
Dr Satan’s Echo Chamber
Reggae, technology and the diaspora… Louis Chude-Sokei documents the transatlantic (un)making of […]
Back Issues
On Circulations and the African Imagination of a Borderless World, October 2018 What […]
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 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.
The Invention of Zimbabwe (April 2018)
14 November 2017. News breaks of a coup d’état underway in Zimbabwe. Tanks, armoured vehicles and military personnel are seen patrolling the capital, Harare. The images send shock waves through social media, traditional broadcast news networks and diplomatic channels
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.
PASS LANDING AT THE NEW SCHOOL, NEW YORK
From 23-25 October 2019, Chimurenga’s Pan African Space Station (PASS) at Arnold and Sheila Aronson […]
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
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.
Hypnotic Brass Ensemble – LIVE at Centre for The Book, Cape Town
Listen to Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, LIVE at The Centre for the Book, Cape […]
Crossroads Republic
The Nigerian superstar bandleader Fela Anikulapo-Kuti hosted a covert summit meeting in the summer of 1977.
Cape Town Central Library
Presented in and around the Cape Town Central Library from May 2 – June 21, the project embodied the proposition evoked by the title by “finding oneself,”
UNIR CINéMA
Unir Cinéma: Revue du Cinéma Africain was the first periodical entirely devoted […]
FRANK TALK
Founded in 1984 in South Africa, Frank Talk is a political journal […]
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.
Every so often there is a gathering of force and a tiny tornado whips the paper into the air, swirls dust around, dogs lift their ears, tongues lolling, then burrow their faces between their forelegs as the wind collapses, exhausted.
Children are in school, long lines of spittle reaching their desks as they try to keep awake
Chronic Circulations Bibliography
The new addition of the Chronic asks: What is the African imagination […]
The Nigerian Art of Patronage
Deji Toye looks at the legacy of arts funding in Nigeria and […]
The Invention of Zimbabwe (April 2018)
14 November 2017. News breaks of a coup d’état underway in Zimbabwe. Tanks, armoured vehicles and military personnel are seen patrolling the capital, Harare. The images send shock waves through social media, traditional broadcast news networks and diplomatic channels
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The Invention of Zimbabwe – New edition of Chimurenga’s Chronic available now!
14 November 2017. News breaks of a coup d’état underway in Zimbabwe. […]
WRITING AS AN ACT OF GENEROSITY
MAMADOU DIALLO All of our current texts in English or French were, […]
Crossing Borders Without Leaving
by Keorapetse Kgositsile Returning home, even though just for a short visit, […]
Le sexe de Matonge
Sony Labou Tansi À Ngalamulume, le Kinois « Nazalaka moluba. Et je […]
Home is where the music is
Hugh Masekela (talking to Mothobi Mutloatse) I remember we use to live […]
Jollof Diaries – A letter from the frontline
By Folakunle Oshun 30 October 2015 It was the first day of […]
Afro Horn
Forged from a rare metal found only in Africa and South America, […]
The Upper Room
By Florence Madenga 4pm: Opening Prayer We are waiting for Apostle Debbie […]
The Amazing Career of Passport Number B957848
By Akin Adesokan (For Larry Siems & Aimee Liu) I The wait […]
The Sound of Freedom
[…]For over a decade Louis Moholo has been the only surviving member […]
A Silent Way: Routes of South African Jazz, 1946-1978.
By Julian Jonker First, a warning. The writer approaching the intersections and digressions […]
A Brief History of Monuments
By Stacy Hardy Abbasid Caliph Abu Ja’far al-Mansur, the founder of the ancient city of […]
Islam between Françafrique and Afrabia
Needless to say, Françafrique was not the only constellation of capital and culture on offer at the time of African political independence.
City Building in Post-Conflict, Post-Socialist Luanda
Burying the Past with Phantasmagorias of the Future By Anne Pitcher […]
Both Sides Then and Now
By Rustum Kozain Perhaps too short for the reading pleasure it provides, […]