Ground / Overground / Underground
By Chimurenga / October 20, 2021
By MOWOSO (translated by Dominique Malaquais)
Anti-Teleology: Re-Mapping the Imag(in)ed City
By Chimurenga / October 20, 2021
By Dominique Malaquais
African Cities Reader III: Land, Property & Value
By Chimurenga / September 3, 2020
The third installment of the Reader explores the unholy trinity of land, property and value – the life force of cities everywhere. In this issue António Andrade Tomás reveals the vice and violence that permeate the act of securing land and home in Luanda;
African Cities Reader II: Mobilities & Fixtures
By Chimurenga / September 3, 2020
The second installment of the Reader features Sean O’Toole, David Adjaye, Vicotr Lavalle, Martin Kimani, Sherif El-Azma and more…
African Cities Reader I: Pan-African Practices
By Chimurenga / September 3, 2020
Featuring writing and musings by Rustum Kozain, Jean-Christophe Lanquetin, Gabebab Baderoon, Karen Press and more…
TRACKS
By Chimurenga / July 29, 2020
MADEYOULOOK collective met with photographer Santu Mofokeng to establish the point of crossroads, where things are in motion and where things remain still
Urbanism Beyond Architecture – African Cities as Infrastructure
By Chimurenga / January 29, 2020
Vyjayanthi Rao, in conversation with Filip de Boeck & Abdou Maliq Simone […]
Quel Est L’Endroit Idéal
By Chimurenga / January 28, 2020
Les Brasseries du Cameroun is the country’s largest industry and dedicated to guaranteeing a steady flow of liquid amber to the vast proliferation of bars, restaurants, nightclubs and other unidentified nightspots – some still in Maquis-style hiding – that have mushroomed all over the city.
Dagga
By Chimurenga / April 5, 2017
Rustum Kozain muses over the cultural and alternative relations built, negotiations and dealings made as a resident of Cape Town.
CHIMURENGA@20: RELUCTANTLY LOUD
By Chimurenga / June 4, 2015
Cape Town is a city with a waiting list of more than 450,000 families for low-cost housing, but delivering about 11,000 units a year and criminalising those who attempt to put up their own structures.