Chimurenga, a pan African platform of writing, art and
politics founded by Ntone Edjabe in 2002. Drawing together a myriad voices from
across Africa and the diaspora, Chimurenga takes many forms operating as an
innovative platform for free ideas and political reflection about Africa by
Africans.
Outputs include a journal of culture, art and politics of the same name
(Chimurenga Magazine); a quarterly broadsheet called The Chronic; the
Chimurenga Library – an ongoing invention into knowledge production and the
archive that seeks to re-imagine the library; the African Cities Reader – a
biennial publication of urban life, Africa-style; and the Pan African Space
Station (PASS) – an online radio station and pop-up studio.
The aim of these activities is not just to produce new knowledge, but rather to
express the intensities of our world, to capture those forces and to take
action. This has required a stretching of the boundaries, for unless we push
form and content beyond what exists, then we merely reproduce the original form
– the colonized form, if you will. It requires not only a new set of questions,
but its own set of tools; new practices and methodologies that allow us to
engage the lines of flight, of fragility, the precariousness, as well as joy,
creativity and beauty that defines contemporary African life.
As Fela puts it, simply: who no know go know.
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