Book Series
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.
Cityscapes 4: After Informality (Africa Centre for Cities, November 2013)
Photographer Jodi Bieber’s portrait of a member of the Dube Young Blood Shotokan Karate Club in Soweto introduces the focus of the fourth issue of Cityscapes: Soweto. Is it a viable model of what happens after informality? The question does not propose a simple answer. Soweto’s redevelopment is uneven. There are malls, loft developments, a theatre. More significantly, there are roads and basic services. Change is afoot, but not for all.
Also in the issue: a grouped series of reports, essays and interviews tracing a zigzag path connecting Tel Aviv to Naples to Berlin to Guangzhou, all cities where African migrants are a feature of the urban matrix. There is a speculative logic at work in this grouping.
