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Chimurenganyana: You Look Illegal by Paula Ihozo Akugizibwe (Feb 2022)
By Chimurenga on 22 March 2022 in Books & Oration, Chimurenga Library, Healing & bodies, Library Book Series, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
A mediation on skin, violence, and the limits of citizenship in a country where black lives have long been brutally (mis)handled.
Chimurenganyana: The Fear and Loathing Out of Harare by Dambudzo Marechera (Dec 2021)
By Chimurenga on 22 March 2022 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chimurenga Library, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Library Book Series, Media & Propaganda
A selection of never-published essays by Dambudzo Marechera with an afterword by writer Tinashe Mushakavanhu
Chimurenganyana: Home Is Where The Music Is by Uhuru Phalafala (September 2021)
By Chimurenga on 8 September 2021 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chimurenga Library, Healing & bodies, Library Book Series, Media & Propaganda
“Home is where the music is” is drawn from Keorapetse Kgositsile’s poem […]
Paris
La Bibliothèque Chimurenga Une installation et une exposition autour des Études noires […]
Chimurenganyana: Even When My Soup-curlers Slur, I Still Keep the Take by Georgia Anne Muldrow (June 2021)
By Chimurenga on 17 June 2021 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chimurenga Library, Healing & bodies, Library Book Series
A limited Chimurenganyana edition of Even When My Soup-Curlers Slur, I Still Keep the Take by Georgia Anne Muldrow is now available.
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.
IMAGI-NATION NWAR (APRIL 2021)
By Chimurenga on 14 June 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
Chimurenganyana: Becoming Kwame Ture by Amandla Thomas-Johnson (Oct 2020)
By Chimurenga on 21 October 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 […]
CHRONIC APRIL 2013 ENDLINE
This piece originally featured in the Chronic (April 2013 edition), available here. Stories range from […]
Chimurenga 07: Kaapstad! And Jozi the Night Moses Died (July 2005)
This piece first appeared in Chimurenga 07: Kaapstad! And Jozi the Night […]
FESTAC 77 BOOK (Oct 2019)
By Chimurenga on 1 October 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.
Hypnotic Brass Ensemble – LIVE at Centre for The Book, Cape Town
Listen to Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, LIVE at The Centre for the Book, Cape […]
Dakar
“Angazi, but I’m sure” is a common South African phrase. In English it means: “I don’t know, but I am sure”. It is a deliberately self-contradictory phrase that is usually spoken in prelude to a reply –
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,
Helsinki
In April and May 2016, Chimurenga installed the Chimurenga Library and pop-up radio station Pan African Space Station in the the Kallio Library in Helsinki.
New York
At Performa 2015, the Chimurenga Library took the form of a library-of-people, bringing together a broad spectrum of NYC.
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,
San Francisco
Presented as part of the exhibition Public Intimacy, Chimurenga Library offered a simple system that allowed visitors to connect various items in the stacks at the main branch of the San Francisco Public Library
Eindhoven
Reviewed in Frieze Magazine: “The politico-literary collective Chimurenga, primarily a twice-yearly pan-African journal, induced a more productive confusion
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,”
Who Killed Kabila
On January 16, 2001, in the middle of the day, shots are heard in the Palais de Marbre compound, the residence of President Laurent-Désiré Kabila.
New Cartographies
Since its launch in 2011, every edition of The Chronic has engaged with this question: when will the new emerge – and if it is already here, how do we decipher it?
Comics & Lower Frequencies
Africa has a long history of comic production that span multiple forms and formats, from popular photocomics such as African Film, produced by Drum in Nigeria,
Panafest
From January 15 to February 12 1977, thousands of artists, writers, musicians, activists and scholars from Africa and the black diaspora descended on Lagos,
Y MAGAZINE (THE FIRST 5 ISSUES)
Born in 1998 out of a joint partnership between Studentwise, publishers of […]
UNIR CINéMA
Unir Cinéma: Revue du Cinéma Africain was the first periodical entirely devoted […]
WIETIE
First published in 1980 by Christopher van Wyk and Fhazel Johennesse, Wietie […]
TWO TONE
Published in 1954, Two Tone, a quarterly of Rhodesian poetry, signified a radical […]
TSOTSO
Described as “a magazine of new writing in Zimbabwe,” Tsotso‘s mandate was […]
THIRD TEXT
“The myth of the internationalism in art must be exploded.” – Rasheed Araeen Third […]
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 […]
THE BOOK OF TONGUES
The guiding concept behind The Book of Tongues is the impossible. In […]
STRAIGHT NO CHASER
Named after Thelonious Monk’s classic, Straight No Chaser was a fiercely independent […]
STAFFRIDER
Borrowing its name and image from township slang for black youth who […]
SPEAR
Spear: Canada’s Truth and Soul Magazine launched in Toronto in 1971 with […]
Souffles
“This slim booklet contains dynamite,” wrote Policy in its 1966 review of […]
SAVACOU
In 1974 Barbadian poet Kamau Braithwaite summarized the overlapping realities, the cross-cultural […]
REVUE NOIRE
Inspired by the growing, vibrant global community of pan African artists and […]
OKYEAME
The post-independence era in Ghana saw the rapid rise of a new […]
MOTO
Moto was founded in 1959 in Zimbabwe’s Midlands town of Gweru as […]
MOLOTOV COCKTAIL
By Chimurenga on 8 July 2019 in Books & Oration, Chimurenga Library, Library Book Series, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
First published in 2007 Molotov Cocktail initially appeared to be a contradictory […]
MFUMU’ETO
In the 1990s the self-declared “bedeaste and high priest of painting mystico-African […]
LAMALIF
By Chimurenga on 8 July 2019 in Arts & Pedagogy, Chimurenga Magazine, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
Published in Morocco in 1966, Lamalif took its title from two Arabic […]
L’AUTRE AFRIQUE
As its name suggests, The Other Africa aims to provide a different […]