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Launching NOTES FOR AN ORATORIO ON SMALL THINGS THAT FALL
By Chimurenga on April 12, 2022 in Cash & Commerce, Chimurenga Library, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, News, Systems of Governance
Wednesday, 13 April 2022
Chimurenga Factory
6pm
Festac at 45: Black Sopranos in Handwoven Clothes
By Chimurenga on January 17, 2022 in Cash & Commerce, Chimurenga Library, Faith & Ideology, Gaming, Library Book Series, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
FESTAC was a cultural-cum-intellectual feast funded principally by the military government of Nigeria. For this reason, it is important to highlight the general political climate of the world in the mid-1970s, as it played a role in the choices that the managers of the Nigerian state had to make in bringing about this cultural event.
Anti-Teleology: Re-Mapping the Imag(in)ed City
By Dominique Malaquais
The Franc-maçonnerie Suite
by Henri Kala-Lobe and Dominique Malaquais
Franc-maçonnerie Suite
Uncle Tom or DOM-TOM?
IMAGI-NATION NWAR (APRIL 2021)
By Chimurenga on June 14, 2021 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Cash & Commerce, Chronic, Faith & Ideology, Gaming, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
Genealogies of the black radical imagination in the francophone world
CHIMURENGA CHRONIC – IMAGI-NATION NWAR – OUT NOW!
By Chimurenga on March 24, 2021 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Cash & Commerce, Chronic, Maps, Media & Propaganda, Music, Systems of Governance
A new issue of Chimurenga’s Chronic – out now. imagi-nation nwar – […]
REVUE NOIRE
Inspired by the growing, vibrant global community of pan African artists and […]
MOTO
Moto was founded in 1959 in Zimbabwe’s Midlands town of Gweru as […]
Corpse Exhibition and Older Graphic Stories
The Corpse Exhibition and older graphic stories – a special issue of […]
Rented Grave: Looking beyond the rural-urban dichotomy
Commonplace readings of Africa narrate the village as a segregated space, its […]
The Second German Chronic is Here
The second German-language edition of the Chronic takes up the theme of new […]
Qalqalah
Through the fictional character Qalqalah, Sarah Rifky, grapples with the question what is an institution? Speaking […]
Gospel Christian Porn Rap
Fucking with the puritanical social mores that pervade the world’s most religious […]
Love and Learning Under the World Bank
Stacy Hardy recounts seventeen stories of the hierarchies, the anti-heroes, the hard […]
Soft Power South African Style
Sean Jacobs mediates the tensions between local pleasure, global capital and cultural […]
Authority Stealing in Kenya
In pursuit of some scriptwriter talent, Billy Kahora discovers that academic mantras, […]
Black Skin, White Ass
Hydroquinine, bleach, lime juice: take your pick. Each of them will lighten […]
You’re… Terminated
Under the parental shadow of Table Mountain, children play on the streets […]
Damballah
Audio/visuals from AfroSonics-sis, Harmony Holiday, originally produced for Fence Books‘ podcast series. “Loose Tracklist” Weldon […]
Contributors
A – B – C – D – E – F – G […]
CHIMURENGA@20: A Silent Way – Routes of South African Jazz, 1946-1978
By Chimurenga on March 22, 2022 in Arts & Pedagogy, Chimurenga Magazine, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Music
Where to begin? Which silences? There are many.
MEDITATIONS ON JIMI HENDRIX
By Chimurenga on December 9, 2021 in Arts & Pedagogy, Chimurenga Magazine, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies
by Greg Tate
All roads lead to Jimi Hendrix.
Ground / Overground / Underground
By MOWOSO (translated by Dominique Malaquais)
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)
Out of Sight
By Chimurenga on October 19, 2021 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chimurenga Magazine, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies
A short story by Yambo Ouologuem adapted from the French by Dominique Malaquais and Ntone Edjabe.
JOKER’S WILD (SLIGHT RETURN)
By Chimurenga on October 18, 2021 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chimurenga Magazine, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies
By Dominique Malaquais
ON THE BRIDGE
By Koffi Kwahulé (translated by Dominique Malaquais)
FRANTZ – A STORY OF BONES
By Chimurenga on October 18, 2021 in Arts & Pedagogy, Chimurenga Magazine, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
By Dominique Malaquais
SEXING AFRICA, AGAIN – POP AS POLITICS: WATCH IT TONIGHT ON HBO
By Chimurenga on October 18, 2021 in Arts & Pedagogy, Cash & Commerce, Chimurenga Magazine, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
By Dominique Malaquais
Blood Money – A Douala Chronicle
By Chimurenga on October 18, 2021 in Arts & Pedagogy, Chimurenga Magazine, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
By Dominique Malaquais
PAINT THE WHITE HOUSE BLACK – A CALL TO ARMS
By Chimurenga on October 18, 2021 in Arts & Pedagogy, Chimurenga Magazine, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
By Dominique Malaquais
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 WILL SAVE THE SAVIOURS?
By Chimurenga on August 11, 2021 in Cash & Commerce, Chronic, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
A close gaze at the collective apathy that killed Dr. Sebi
From Seven Modes for Hood Science
The black spirit is universally sick with dissimulation and at the same time triumphant in its incessantly performed healing, having turned suffering into a kind of spectacular wellness
THIRD TRANSITION
By Chimurenga on July 27, 2021 in Cash & Commerce, Chronic, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
Shoks Mzolo and Bongani Kona trace the path of South Africa’s transformation from a criminal apartheid state to a criminal neoliberal state
War and Spirits
By Kirby Mania The timing of the publication of Confession of the […]
The poetics of Futbol
The Touch It would have to be a bird, stilled on a […]
Between the Lines of an Unpatriotic Presidential Pre-Recorded Address
By Chimurenga on June 23, 2021 in Chronic, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
FOURTH REPUBLIC 19 conducts a post-mortem on not-so-presidential minutes in recorded Nigerian history.
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.
Remember Glissant
By Chimurenga on April 12, 2021 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chronic, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
Moses März writes of Édouard Glissant, Martinican, poet and compatriot of the more celebrated Aimé Césaire and Frantz Fanon
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 […]
Your Own Hand Sold You: Voluntary servitude in the Francafrique
By Chronic on December 28, 2020 in Cash & Commerce, Chronic, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
In the CFA franc, the French colonial mission in West Africa found a way to ensure a paternalist and pernicious stranglehold on the economies of a vast region of the continent.
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 […]
CHIMURENGA@20: 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.
CHE IN THE CONGO, ELECTRIC GUITARS AND THE INVENTION OF AFRICA
Featuring solos by Franco Luambo Makiadi, Pepe Felly Manuaku, Bansimba Baroza, Diblo Dibala, Dally Kimoko, Flamme Kapaya, Sarah Solo, Japonais Maladi and Kimbangu Solo; and commentary by Ray Lema