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Author: Chronic

The Power of Green Crayons

Agri Ismaïl recalls growing up off the map… belonging to one of the largest diasporas on earth, but seemingly out of step with his state of being

Bajove Dokotela

Let the good Dr [Philip Tabane] inject you in three ways; music, words, video.

The University of Soweto

Frank B. Wilderson draws from his memory of student protests in 1993 at Vista University in Soweto.

On Mermaids and Microwaves

What if you don’t want a microwave meal? What if you want to season and stew your dishes, make them undeniably your own? “Fairytales For Lost Children” is a reflection of that old-school vibration.

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Imagined Waters

Through the poetry of its mariners – the singers of its rivers and seas – Yvonne A. Owuor explores the geography of the vast oceans of Africa.

The Picture

In those moments all that noise seems to come together like a finely arranged orchestra. Every move, every gun shot, on cue as if conducted.

Homeless in the Afterlife

Myriad and alienating bureaucratic procedures often delay the passing of souls in a tortuous passing of time. Florence Madenga recalls the way back home.

Cover Story

He’s been described as the “founding father of African literature”, an author “who played key role in developing African literature”; a “towering man of letters” who “helped to revive African literature”…  but these accolades do little justice to Chinua Achebe’s literary legacy.

Mining Sounds: Lagos – Cairo

Emeka Ogboh’s art works require audiences to hone their listening and hearing skills. Turning sounds into words, he documents his hometown in A Personal Reflection on Soundscapes.

Preliminary Notes for a Mediterranean Manifesto

Connecting ancience and modern roots/routes Rasheed Araeen redraws the boundaries and limits of identity.

The Forest and the Zoo

Johnny Dyani offers a method to the Skanga (black music family) in this extended conversation with Aryan Kaganof. Photographs by George Hallett.

Guilt Trips

Kai Friese interrogates the colonial fantasy that lives on in the sententious philanthropy of ethical tourism.

Never, ever let any monster abuse your science!

Renfrew Christie’s Speech to the Science Graduation Ceremony of the University of Witwatersrand, 2008

Translating Tram 83

You Have No Power Here

Karen Press reviews three first collections from publishing house uHlanga that add welcome breadth to the range of South African poetry

The Trajectory of a Street Photographer

My quest for an explanation for this omission in my history education made me appreciate the magnitude of the crime… for the struggle against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. – Santu Mofokeng

Remembering Biafra

In 1968, Nigeria’s finance minister, agricultural produce mogul Obafemi Awolowo declared: “Starvation is a legitimate weapon of war, and we have every intention to use it against the rebels.”

Searching for Rotimi- A Letter From London

The Pharaoh’s New Clothes

Its location, vocation, and publication intended to speak to a politicised Third World imaginary.

Avions De Nuit

Qalqalah

Kaveena

Afro Horn

Yakhal’ Inkomo

Major Gentl and the Achimota Wars

The Muezzin and I

Time to Bleed

The Art of Suspense

Sports Chatter

The Lexicon of Love

Writing Football

The Invention of African Football

A Fine Madness

Climbing- A Letter from San Francisco

God Has Written a Miracle Into My Body

The Upper Room

The Mission of Forgetting

“That Guy No Be Ordinary”

Yemisi Aribisala grapples with the real-time significance of the artist Victor Ehikhamenor, one of his most celebrated works, “The Flower of a Girl”, and the nonsensical brandishing of the banal in the context of Nigerian art as big business.

Reform and Revolution at the University of Lovanium

Politics of Betrayal

Marcus Garvey is Alive in East Africa

How to Approach Heaven

Four Days in June

Focusing the Fashionable Mind

Come On Up, Sweetheart

A Brief History of Student Protests

Fighting Shadows

Adult Alphabet

Sexing Africa, Again

No Easy Truce Between Africa’s Most Powerful Brothership

Inaudible I

Giant Steps – from a film by Aryan Kaganof and Geoff Mphakati

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Dear Dr. Schwab, Queen of Jordan

Binyavanga Wainaina responds to an invitation to participate in Young Global Leaders 2007

Folk Dancing for Beginners

Hanging Participle

Justino

Dansons Donc le Zouglou

The Chimurenga Library (with PASS pop-up) at Performa, New York

Sermon on the Train

Lagos, Lagos

The Amazing Career of Passport Number B957848

The Chimurenga Library at The Showroom, London.

Creating Theatre: A George Hallett Photo Essay

Pan African Space Station POP-UP at Fondation Cartier, Paris

a half century thing & because the night

Rumblin’

Variations on the Beautiful in the Congolese World of Sounds

by Achille Mbembe; translated by Dominique Malaquais

Archie Shepp’s Shirt Suggests

By Dominique Malaquais and Cédric Vincent

Season’s Greetings

The Sahara is not a Boundary

The African Affairs Bureau

Jeune Afrique

Souffles

Al Fatah

Lotus Magazine

Ibrahim El-Salahi

Hiwar

Qibla

Jihad as a Form of Struggle in the Resistance to Apartheid in South Africa

Dispossessed Vigils

“The contemporary art in this country is flowing, but it needs direction.”

IRM de la ville de Douala

Authority Stealing in Kenya

Under the Caine Bridge

Both Sides Then and Now

African Cities Reader Three is Out Now

The Scandal

Home is Where the Mic is – Cape Town launch

I Think I’ll Call it Morning

The Shifting Fortunes of a Performing Poet

Black Man in the White Suit

Mapping The Last King of Africa

In a Time of Boko Haram

Re-Membering the Name of God

Bordering on Borana

Pwani Si Kenya

The Last King of Africa

Secret Countries

How to Eat a Forest

Living Dangerously in Petroluanda

The Institute

Manufacturing African Celebrity

Soft Power Desire Machines and the Production of Africa Rising

Becoming Chimamanda’s Boy

Neopats and Repats

Creative Industries as Underdevelopment

All That is Solid Melts into PR

Mark Fisher speaks to Bongani Kona about the social, economic and cultural totality of late capitalism, the pervasive cynicism in which we seem to be mired, the omnipresence of PR and the possibility of countering it all by re-igniting a belief in the public good.

Reviews in Brief

Operation Protective Edge

Portrait of the Artist as a Daughter

Licking Dirty Hands

Undoing the Spell

The Undeveloped Intellectual in Zombie-land

Breaking the Rules Beautifully

Men and their Dogs

Miniature Metamorphoses

The Other Brother

A Geography of Times and Affects

And the Books Lived Happily Ever After

Which Africa Are We Talking About?

Shooting From Point Blank Range

Beneath the Underdog

New Oil Old Lamps

Shifting Gulfward

Life After Oil

We almost died thrice…

The Bite and the Embrace

The Face: Cartography of the Void

New Trade Routes

After Oil Water

African War Machines

The Chronic Presents a New Cartography for Africa

The Internet is Afropolitan

Yambo Ouloguem: Postcolonial Writer, Anti-Wahhabist Militant

How Close Are You To This Place?

How to write about Africa

In Suburbia

The Chronic – mapping the new – soon come

Gateway

Alex killers are ‘proud’ of attacks on foreigners

10th Caderno Sesc_Videobrasil

What Follows? The State of Black Collectivity in the Year of the Sheep

Between Worldliness and Exile Homelessness and Cosmopolitanism

Writivism is underway

Dispatches from Beirut

In the Listening Room with Neo Muyanga

The African Renaissance Hoer-o-scope for Politicians

The Story of an African Farm

The Alternative is at Hand

Kangsen Feka Wakai Can’t Breathe

‘Let’s face it: we’re in over our heads. We need the white folks to come back.’

Beyond Oppression-Liberation-Maendeleo

Ankara Press, new romance imprint from Cassava Republic Press

Propaganda and Politics tunnel vision history of art activism in South Africa

Stories about Music in Africa

The New Thing

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Midway Between Silence and Speech

Exitour as Rhizome

Une Hommage à Goddy Leye

The Beautiful Beast

The G.Spot Protagonists

Boda Boda Lounge Project: Nov 21 – 23

Black Skin, White Ass

Honouring Somaliness

Binyavanga Wainaina and Diriye Osman sit down in south London to speak of honouring Somaliness, navigating the globe as a homeless writer, freedom and love.

Philatelic Pan Africanism

Writers Boot Camp comes to Cape Town

Poets Pressing Record(s)

Mythscience Records

This is a pigment of my imagination

How Kenya Exploded In My Heart

Buru Buru

Out of sight and out of mind in High Care

Floyd Mayweather and Improvised Modalities of Rhythm

Mining for Minds

The Case of Sipho Mchunu

Chronic Apartheid Litigation

Poets Are Hurting: Lesego Rampolokeng in Conversation with Mafika Gwala

Accordion Cowboys

Why music is better than photography

AF 888

Ba re e ne re Literature Festival

Palestine Journey

L’impossible n’est pas Camerounais!

Searching for Augusto Zita

Visioncarnation

The Black Guru

Swami Sitarama Dasa in conversation with Gael Reagon

A New Myth

Masquerade

The Chronic (July 2014)

11 YRS OF DEMONCRAZY!!!

Historieda

Motshumi’s Country

Obi’s Nightmare

It’s only a matter of acceleration now

This is how the earth is arranged, or this is how the kora arranged and made the universe, and songs of numbers and words made souls…. Are you ready to interview Youssou N’Dour?

New Bush, Old Ghosts

When You Kill Us, We Rule

Sketches of ‘Trane

Obstacles

Not only our land but also our souls

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