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Author: Chronic

The End of Elections

A Brief History of Throwing Shit

“Nice Nice” Will Get You Nowhere

A Brief History of Presidential Libraries

Will the Centre Hold?

Fifty Years Of African Decolonisation

In Praise of Complexity

Pro Helvetia and SDC funding opportunity

Paris-Algiers, Underground Class

I Travel with the Dead

The Last Angel of History

Bakwa: Call for submissions

Africa39: Call for submissions

Setting The Pace is a Small Town’s Big Business

Fuzzy Goo’s Guide (to the Earth)

Even the Dead

Nothing but… Grobbelaar

Banyana Banyana

Ready, Willing & Able

Shoes

You’re… Terminated

Stickfighting Days

A Three Point Shot from Andromeda

Say What You Mean

Americanah and other definitions of supple citizenships

Onitsha Republic

Depth of Field

Neo Africanus: In Teju Cole’s World

I Have Always Meant to Fail

When We Hear the Name of President

George Osodi

Lagos Underground

Lagos: A Pilgrimage in Notations

Altourism – Where Altruism Meets Adventure

Laugh it Off

Interactions: A Strategy of Difference and Repetition

The Power of Wikipedia: Legitimacy and Control

The story of a South African firm

The First Lady Syndrome

Manufacturing the post-election peace: A reporter’s 2013 election diary

A Civil Society Of African States

Che

Death by Memory [of Freedom]; Truth & Reconciliation

Howl Marikana

Who’s Free, Who’s Not, Who Was, Who Wasn’t, and Who’s Dead: And, Are You Sure You Know Which Way Is Up?

Suspect Sammy

Memento Mori

Name Death & Text

Damballah

Rest In Peace Chiwoniso Maraire

Dead Cow Spreads Fear and Rumour in Lagos Suburb

Dance of the Infidels presents: Nollywood Confidential

Authority Stealing: The business of crime writing in Kenya, India and Nigeria

10 Questions For Mukoma Wa Ngugi

Godhead

In Defense Of The Films We Have Made

Three Men, A Fence & A Dead Body

Everyday is for the Thief

I Smoked A Spliff With Jesus Christ

WHO’S CALLING?

Who Killed Christopher Okigbo

Guns, Girls and Gentle People

Pulp!

A Fieldguide for Female Interrogators

Hauling Humans: a tricky business for trans-border truckers

Itineraries

The Road To Wellville

What’s Next

Body Paths

Home and away

The way back home

Way Back Home excerpt

The Way Back Home Article

Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989)

We Used To Dance

Relaxing

Moses’ outro

Ten paragraphs of Music Criticism

The night Moses died (Parts one and two)

Kin La Belle

To Be or Not To Bop

Notes Towards A Question of Power

Bra Tebs talks

Diary Of A Bad Year

All Roads Lead to Hendrix

Walking through walls

When history is suspended

San Pedro V: The Hope I Hope

New Bushs Old Ghosts

The Afflicted Yard: The Rock

EU fortifies its mission on North African frontline

Migration Business is Good Business

Secret Cities

La Frontera

Salut Deleuze!

An Introduction to Arithmetic Sorcery

The Life and Death of Media

The Boys are Doin’ it!

Uncertainty in Cuba after the Death of Hugo Chávez

Moving ‘White Man’s Deads’ is no second hand business

The Death of Jacob Dlamini

Under the rainbow rays

Chicken Core: The Rise of Kings

Dr Satan’s Echo Chamber

The Adventures of Dr Evil in Dakar

Not Yet Uhuru

The New Normal

Oscar Pistorius first gained international fame amid a raging debate over whether prosthetic blades would give him unfair advantage against able-bodied athletes. Today, the track star finds himself in the middle of a more serious controversy: whether he intentionally shot and killed his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Both cases raise serious questions regarding humanity. Gabriella Håkansson* embarks on the slippery-slop of what defines the human.

Our cyborg past: Medieval artificial memory as mindware upgrade

The Warm Up

Voudou Priestess Madame Evonne Auguste

Les Saignantes

This Young (Wo)man

Platinum Dreams

The Rise Of Somali Capital

Yellow Fever, NKO?

Folk Dancing For Beginners

Do Right Women: Black Women, Eroticism and Classic Blues

Fish Soup As Love Potions

Childhood Snapshots

The Quiet Encroachment of the Ordinary

Black Like Us

A New Consciousness

France’s war for uranium

Discoveries of Timbuktu

Elvis on the move

Evidence

Juba ‘I will make my life here’

The metronomes of ancient history, the legacy of war, the wavering prosperity of peace, impending independence and inter-ethnic tensions beat the rhythms of Juba – the new capital of Southern Sudan. Billy Kahora reports.

In Search of Yambo

If you want to see the African Game go to a Stadium

The Chronic (April 2013)

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