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Chimurenga publishes monographs, series and literature by independent researchers and writers from around the world.

Our series include Chimurenganyana, a literature project consisting of serialized monographs. It consists of factions, essays, scores, interviews, liner notes, musical analysis, travel writing, personal impressions, political and social commentary. Plus innovative artwork that illuminates the subversive beauty, electrifying creativity and marvelous diversity of provocative innovators.

The Chimurenga Library Series is a publication series which catalogues long-research projects of Chimurenga.

After Troy - a Poem by Taban lo Liyong (Deep South, 2021)

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after troy, Taban lo Liyong’s booklength poem, weaves together classical Greek mythology and modern experience through revisiting of two classical Greek texts, Homer’s Odyssey and Aeschylus’s Oresteia.

In a sequence of dramatic monologues, Lo Liyong animates the homecoming from the Trojan war of the two hero-kings, Odysseus and Agamemnon, with dialogues of other characters, most of them women, who are not given a voice in the original stories.

after troy is also a provocative enquiry into retribution, justice, and the foundations of Greek philosophical thought.

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After Troy - a Poem by Taban lo Liyong (Deep South, 2021)

Store/African Indie Books/Deep South