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Author: Chimurenga

Rhythms of a Road, Voices of an Ethnographer

A composed journey through Maputo by Vanessa Ulia Dantas e

this month at CHIMURENGA FACTORY

Don't miss out this November, stay up-to-date with the latest

Johannesburg

Vocabularies of the Visceral and Expressions of Multiple Practices, Jyoti

LISTEN: Mario Lewis in conversation

Author of the latest Chimurenganyana 'Forest Notebooks' takes us through

Madala Kunene and Sibusile Xaba – KwaNTU LIVE

BAFO & XABA LIVE Friday 14 November 2025 from 7pm

DRYLONGSO Film Screening

Wednesday, 12 November 2025, 7pm

POEMS AGAINST GENOCIDE

An evening of poetry, Friday 7 November from 7pm

Brandfort: Liberation Capital [1977-86] – FREE STATE LAUNCH

Celebrating the launch of 'Brandfort: Liberation Capital [1977-86]' in Brandfort,

LISTEN: Dambudzo Marechera w/ The Otolith Collective and George Shire

The Otolith Collective & George Shire study Dambudzo Marechera, author

JABU GOES TO JOBURG- A Chimurenga Fotonovela

First in a new series of fotonovelas produced by Chimurenga

SURPLUS VALUES BY ARI SITAS OUT NOW!

The latest publication in the Chimurenganyana series

PRINTING POLITICAL CONSTELLATIONS – The Funambulist a conversation with Leopold Lambert, founder and editor of the Funambulist

Thursday, 16 October from 7pm

Mamane

Remembering Mam'Winnie Madikizela-Mandela's time in Majwemasweu, Brandfort

ETUK UBONG – LIVE at Jam House (Birmingham, UK)

Tuesday 7 Oct from 8pm(SAST) tune in live via the

LISTEN: ZAMROCK EXPRESS

A four-part documentary series on the liberatory sound of Zambia

Airport Theatre, African Villain

Martin Kimani navigates airport theatrics, from crotch explosives to sniffer

THE CHRONIC: BRANDFORT, LIBERATION CAPITAL [1977-86]

A special edition of Chimurenga Chronic, exploring the intellectual, social

Chimurenga Chronic: Brandfort, Liberation Capital [1977-86] (April, 2025)

Exploring the intellectual, social and political work of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

REZA KHOTA QUARTET: RESILIENCE TOUR

Live at Chimurenga Factory, Friday 12 September from 7pm

CHIMU TAPESTRIES – A NINEVITES COLLAB

A limited-edition series of handwoven wool tapestries designed by Chimurenga,

Chimurenga 12/13 – Dr Satan’s Echo Chamber (Double-Issue March 2008)

A double-take on sci-fi and speculative writing from the African

NCESH NONXISHI LIVE – The Apho Kungenje Tour

Thursday, 28 Aug from 7pm at Chimurenga Factory, 157 Victoria

THE FASTEST TITLER IN AMERICA

Stella Vincenot reviews Dany Laferrière's Je suis un écrivain japonais

CLOSER THAN THIS

extracts from an open source book for urban planners by

A DREAMSCAPE OF ASTONISHMENT

Rustum Kozain review’s Jose Eduardo Agualusa’s 'My Father's Wives'

THE USEFULNESS OF FORGETTING

The usefulness of forgetting, a review of Were Were Liking's

A PASSPORT BY ANY OTHER NAME

The concept of an Africa without borders for Africans remains

REIMAGINING THE SCRIPT – Saki Mafundikwa

“Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with

UMCIMBI_LATE

Friday 11 July at The Library of Things We Forgot

MARIO LEWIS – FOREST NOTEBOOKS

A GATHERING – for Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

A two-part memorial reading Monday 30 June & Wednesday 2

LOUIS TEBOGO MOHOLO (1940-2025)

BRANDFORT, LIBERATION CAPITAL [1977-86] – THE URBAN MAP

A supplement publication to the latest edition of Chimurenga Chronic

NGUGI WA THIONG’O – THE WRITER IN POST-COLONIAL AFRICA with an introduction by Ari Sitas

Live on PASS from 6.30pm

FATIMA AND THE DUST – a listening session with Leila Bencharnia

Live via the Pan African Space Station, Friday 6 June,

KOYO KOUOH (1967-2025)

We mourn the passing of our dearly departed sister and

CHIMURENGANYANA: FOREST NOTEBOOKS – MARIO LEWIS

First of ‘Black Echologies’, a series of practice-based notebooks produced

FOREST NOTEBOOKS LAUNCH OF THE ECHO-LOGIES SERIES

Thursday, 08 May from 8pm

SONGS FOR WINNIE – LAUNCH OF THE CHRONIC WITH A SEMBLANCE

Chimurenga presents the launch of the latest edition of The

LISTEN: MBIZO! – a gathering for Johnny Dyani

Performed LIVE at CONSTELLATION, Chicago

LISTEN: SOCIAL BREATH – Asher Gamedze and THE BLACK LUNGS

In commemoration of the fighting spirit of 16 June ’76,

Chimurenga & Septober Energy presents BACKBREAKANOMICS!

Friday, 21 February from 6pm

KEENAN AHRENDS LIVE WITH BENJAMIN JEPHTA & JONNO SWEETMAN

Saturday 15 Feb from 8pm at Chimurenga Factory, 157 Victoria

THIS WAY I SALUTE YOU – a gathering for Keorapetse Kgositsile

The launch of two long-awaited books on our dearly departed

Traditional Intellectuals

Izithunywa Zohlanga use indigenous repertoire and idioms to produce music

Sungura Stories

Ranga Mberi travels back in musical time to the 1980s

Live Broadcast – Water No Get Enemy

In honour of the almighty water we present a day-long

Together in the Picture

John Peffer scans the photographic styles that image a black

A Night with a Elephant – a live reading

We are delighted to present a live reading of "Night

THIS THING CALLED SOUL MUSIC

…There is nothing like art – in the oppressor’s sense

MSAFIRI KAFIRI – a conversation and listening Session on the roots and routes of Tanzanian hip hop with Seth Markle

Thursday, 01 August, broadcasting live from 6pm. Tune in at

IZIMPABANGA ZOMHLABA – Ukulalela ukufundwa kwesiqephu noNombuso Mathibela

Thursday 22 August 2024, 6pm Chimurenga Factory www.panafricanspacestation.org.za

SANKOFA – A Conversation and Listening Session with King Tha

Monday 22 July, from 6pm. Tune in at www.panafricanspacestation.org.za

The New Thing

The Chimurenganyana Boxset volume 1, a handmade collection of rhythmic

KÀDDU- THE ECHO OF DISSONANT DISCOURSE

More than a mere editorial committee, Kàddu was a research,

NEW RELEASE! Four Stories About Music in Africa, Volume 1

a limited edition handmade box set featuring four publications from

NATIONAL HEROES ACRE II & III

by Brian Chikwa, Photographs by Jekesai Njikizanava

Festac: Idia Tales – Three Takes and a Mask*

By Dominique Malaquais and Cedric Vincent

Somewhere between a scream and a lullaby

In a city where the boundaries between life and death

Jah Hills by Unathi Slasha (Black Ghost Books, 2017)

Set between Kwafindoda, where the nature is alive and ghosts

BUILDING THE HOUSE OF LIFE

Ayi Kwei Armah traces the contour of an old conflict

Breather’s Night

I love you, I put my hands over your eyes

Did You Kiss the Dead Body?

The act of creation is one that cannot be quantified,

Surviving Loss by Busisiwe Mahlangu (Impepho Press, 2018)

Mahlangu's debut collection, written between 2015 and 2018, is undoing

LAUNCHING THE BREATHERS – THE LATEST IN THE CHIMURENGANYANA SERIES

We are pleased to be launching the latest addition to

Chimurenganyana: The Breathers, A Collaborative Long Poem By Daniel Borzutzky And Stacy Hardy (May 2024)

The Breathers is an attempt to experiment with ways to

The Breathers, a collaborative long poem by Daniel Borzutzky and Stacy Hardy

Latest Chimurenganyana Now Available in Stores!

pumflet ‘hophuis’

'hophuis' documents a series of journeys to and activations made

Taty Went West by Nikhil Singh (Kwani?, 2018)

Taty is a troubled teen running away from home. She

50 Years Ago: Zeke in Nigeria

Es’kia Mphahlele and the Anti-Apartheid Association of Nigeria

The Colours of Our Flag by Allan K. Horwitz (Botsotso, 2016)

In the preface to The Colours of Our Flag the

Ten flapping elbows, Mama by Khulile Nxumalo (Deep South, 2004)

"I have tried to be fully aware of the legacy

Unchain the art

Gwen Ansell maps the distance between words and music, fiction

LISTEN: ‘WAR CHORALE’ BY BHEKI KHOZA

‘War Chorale’, composed and directed by Bheki Khoza is a

BHEKI KHOZA TRIO

We are pleased to host veteran guitarist, composer and mbaqanga

Woza Moya

Maakomele R. Manaka revisits a soundtrack of his dreams, long

LISTEN: A TRIBUTE TO KELAN PHIL COHRAN

In honour of the late Kelan Phil Cohran we present,

Heliacal Rising of Sothis – a celebration of Kelan Phil Cohran

Chimurenga proudly presents "Heliacal Rising of Sothis", a celebration of

Sammy Baloji exhibition – ‘Mémoire’

'Mémoire' shows the heritage of colonial times and at the

The Headline That Morning and Other Poems by Peter Kagayi (Soo Many Stories, 2016)

Whiteheart: Prologue to Hysteria by Lesego Rampolokeng (Deep South, 2005)

When Three Sevens Clash (Mbonga Editions, 2023)

AFRICAN DAY – a listening session with Tete Mbambisa

Wednesday, 27 March 2024 from 7pm Chimurenga Factory

Calabash Afrobeat Poems

Dike Okoro interviews Ikwunga Wonodi

Xamissa – The Water Archives by Henk Rossouw (Akashic Books, 2018)

SESASEDI SA TSODIO / SA KOŠA KE LEROLE: a screening of two film-essays

a screening of two-film essays Friday, 15 March 2024 from

MoRa: Mogorosi meets Rampolokeng with ensemble live recording

22 March 2024 6pm Chiesa Dipazzo Lupi, Melville

EXHIBITORS AND PARTICIPANTS

Ubuhle Bendalo Community Arts Festival plays host to the following

Ubuhle Bendalo Community Arts Festival

16-18 February 2024 10am-10pm daily Chimurenga Factory

UBUHLE BENDALO

16 - 18 February 2024 Chimurenga Factory

A Phyllis Hyman Selection, 1976-1982

by Pierre Crépon

A LIVE BROADCAST WITH DAMOLA OLOWADE

Friday, 24 November 7pm Tune in at panafricanspacestation.org.za

HOPHUIS: A SITE OF DANCE AND SOLIDARITY

Thursday, 09 November 2023 from 6pm. Chimurenga Factory

LAUNCHING MINE MINE MINE

Chimurenga Factory Thu, 12 Oct 2023 from 6pm

LIBERATION RADIO: MEDU ARTS ENSEMBLE

The music unit of Medu Arts Ensemble consisted of two

LIBERATION RADIO: BOKANI DYER’S RADIO SECHABA

Chimurenga Factory 30 September 7pm

Chimurenganyana: The Garden Letters of Yvonne Vera by Tadiwa Madenga (Sep 2023)

In this monograph, Tadiwa Madenga travels to Bulawayo to retrace

LATEST CHIMURENGANYANA OUT NOW!

THE GARDEN LETTERS OF YVONNE VERA by Tadiwa Madenga

EPISTROPHIES

Saturday, 16 September 2023 from 6pm Chimurenga Factory (157 Victoria

Melodious Thunk

Everyone in the neighbourhood knew him. Walking to the shops,

CHIMURENGANYANA: MUSIC NOTEBOOK OUT NOW!

MUSIC NOTEBOOK by Ari Sitas

Chimurenganyana: Music Notebook by Ari Sitas (Aug 2023)

Music Notebook is at once a scrapbook, a bildungsroman, a

CLASS STRUGGLE IN MUSIC

Chimurenga Factory - 157 Victoria Rd, Woodstock Thursday, 17 August

Notes for an Oratorio on small things that fall

Aditi Hunma reviews the launch of Notes for an Oratorio

You Ain’t Gonna Know Me ‘Cos You Think You Know Me

a gathering 'n broadcast for our dearly departed brother Malesela

AZANIA EP LISTENING SESSION

Chimurenga Factory - Fri, 07 July 2023 from 6pm

CHIMURENGA PRESENTS SOCIAL BREATH

a collective improvisation 16 June 2023

Chimurenganyana: La Discotheque De Sarah Maldoror (March 2023)

decomposed, an-arranged and reproduced by Ntone Edjabe

LATEST IN STORE: WHEN THREE SEVENS CLASH

A collection of writing and images on Zimbabwe, edited by

Costa Diagne et Les Hommes de la danse

par Gabrielle Chomentowski

LATEST IN STORE: CHANTS, DREAMS AND OTHER GRAMMARS OF LOVE

a gedenkschrift for Harry Garuba

CONFESSIONS OF A CLOSET SOYINKA PLAGIARIST

A letter from Ibadan by Harry Garuba

REVIEW: AND THE BOOKS LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER

Harry Garuba reviews reissues of Amos Tutuola's writings

La Discothèque de Sarah Maldoror (tracklisting)

decomposed, an-arranged, and reproduced by Ntone Edjabe

FIELD RECORDINGS WITH SHABAKA HUTCHINGS

FIELD RECORDINGS WED, 22 FEB 2023 from 6PM

A RADIO PROGRAMME ON THE LIFE AND WORK OF THE MYSTIC REVELATION OF RASTAFARI

Live on PASS - 14 February 2023, from 6pm

GROUNATION – a tribute to the Mystic Revelation of Rastafari

“Grounation Day” marks the landing of Emperor Selassie I in

Chimurenga presents GROUNATION

a tribute to the Mystic Revelation of Rastafari

LIBERATION RADIO: TUMI MOGOROSI’S GROUP THEORY:BLACK MUSIC

The latest episode in the Stories About Music in Africa

MYSTIC REVELATION OF RASTAFARI

We shall open this new cycle of programming with a

CHIMURENGA@20: IN PRAISE OF INDIGENOUS AFRICAN WORDFORM

Have African literary forms been lost in a morass of

THE WRITINGS OF BINYAVANGA WAINAINA

Launching a new collection of writings by the late, great

LIBERATION RADIO

an ongoing query on knowledge production via African sound worlds,

PASS LANDING IN DAR-ES-SALAAM

From 10 – 14 August 2022, we presented another edition

I’M NOT WHO YOU THINK I’M NOT

Serubiri Moses reflects on Binyavanga Wainaina’s refusal to fit neatly

I am a homosexual, Mum

A lost chapter from One Day I Will Write About

CHIMURENGA@20: Midway Between Silence and Speech

The art and incarnation of Justine Gaga.

LIBERATION RADIO: MASELLO MOTANA’S VOCAL MUSEUM

The latest episode in the Stories About Music in Africa

MALCOLM JIYANE’S TREE-O

Live at Chimurenga Factory - Fri, 28 October 2022

TUMI MOGOROSI’S GROUP THEORY:BLACK MUSIC

Live at Chimurenga Factory - Sat, 22 Oct 2022

The Music Mind of Greg Tate: Sonic Syllabus for a Patternmaster

A 5-hour music selection in memory of Greg Tate on

LIBERATION MUSIC AT THE CHIMURENGA FACTORY – OCTOBER 2022

Tumi Mogorosi's Group Theory:Black Music and Malcolm Jiyane's Tree-O

CHIMURENGA@20: MURIMI MUNHU

Panashe Chigumadzi travels to the rural Zimbabwe of her ancestors,

CHIMURENGA@20: GENRES OF HUMAN

In his book, The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black

Euredice Zaituna Kala’s JE SUIS L’ARCHIVE / I, THE ARCHIVE

Live on PASS - 13 Sep 2022 from 6pm

LIBERATION RADIO

We’re proud to present a new edition of “Liberation Radio”

CHIMURENGA@20: AZANIA SALUTES TOSH

On the eve of the tenth anniversary of the death

CHIMURENGA@20: ONCE THERE WERE HUMANS

In the hills above Kingston, Jamaica Annie Paul unpacks some

SOUNDGARDEN

a live reading for Bessie Head's 85th 13 July 2022

MASELLO MOTANA’S VOCAL MUSEUM

Live at the Chimurenga Factory

CHIMURENGA@20: STICKFIGHTING DAYS

Everyone knows I’m a two-stick man. But, I’m not ready

IN MEMORIAM: OMOSEYE BOLAJI (1964-2022)

We remember Nigerian-born writer, Omoseye Bolaji (1964-2022), and his immense

In conversation with Omoseye Bolaji

In the Free State, the most important and pivotal figure

CHIMURENGA@20: WHEN YOU KILL US, WE RULE!

In 1996, Keziah Jones visited Kalakuta Republic every day for

CHIMURENGA@20: MONDAY BLUES FOR SANDILE DIKENI

The most recent episode of Stories About Music in Africa

LIBERATION RADIO: PEOPLE WHO THINK TOGETHER, DANCE TOGETHER #7

Conversations with Christian Nyampeta, featuring Hannah Black, Sasha Bonét, Natacha

LIBERATION RADIO: PUNGWE 1

Selected and mixed by Robert Machiri

CHIMURENGA@20: THE WARM-UP

The xenophobic violence that swept through many communities in South

Launching NOTES FOR AN ORATORIO ON SMALL THINGS THAT FALL

Wednesday, 13 April 2022 Chimurenga Factory 6pm

DIALECTIC SOUL

Friday, 08 April 2022 - 7pm @ Chimurenga Factory

iPhupho L’ka Biko – live at the Chimurenga Factory

Thursday, 31 March 2022 7pm

Chimurenganyana: You Look Illegal by Paula Ihozo Akugizibwe (Feb 2022)

A mediation on skin, violence, and the limits of citizenship

CHIMURENGA@20: A Silent Way – Routes of South African Jazz, 1946-1978

Where to begin? Which silences? There are many.

Liberation Radio: Cape Town – 15-18 March 2022

Live on PASS: 15th-18th March 2022, 3-6pm

CHIMURENGA@20: Talkin’ ‘bout Survival – The Repatriation of Reggae

Where Apartheid and broadcasters divided South Africans culturally, here comes

The Africans, A Radio Play in Three Acts

Worldwide premiere live on PASS – 09-11 February 2022

Ready, Willing & Able

Lolade Adewuyi profiles one of the continent’s most successful football

PASS LANDING IN LISBON

Chimurenga and Hangar presented Radio MAC , a program curated

PASS LANDING AT KUNSTNERNES HUS, OSLO

From Wednesday, 17 - Saturday, 20 February, 2021, Pan African

CHIMURENGANYANA: THE FEAR AND LOATHING OUT OF HARARE BY DAMBUDZO MARECHERA (DEC 2021)

with supplementary urban map of Harare

MEDITATIONS ON JIMI HENDRIX

by Greg Tate All roads lead to Jimi Hendrix.

THE BROTHER MOVES ON RETURNS

Chimurenga Factory Saturday, 06 November 2021

Ground / Overground / Underground

By MOWOSO (translated by Dominique Malaquais)

Anti-Teleology: Re-Mapping the Imag(in)ed City

For some years now, scholars in a range of fields

Pieces of Dominique

The writings, translations and ideas of our dearly departed friend,

Koltan Kills Kids

By Tsuba Ka 23 (Dominique Malaquais, Mowoso, Kongo Astronauts)

ALL I CAN SAY FOR NOW

By Jean-Christophe Lanquetin (translated by Dominique Malaquais)

Out of Sight

A short story by Yambo Ouologuem adapted from the French

That Thing We Dreamed

By Dominique Malaquais

Rumblin’

By Dominique Malaquais

JOKER’S WILD (SLIGHT RETURN)

By Dominique Malaquais

ON THE BRIDGE

By Koffi Kwahulé (translated by Dominique Malaquais)

FRANTZ – A STORY OF BONES

By Dominique Malaquais

SEXING AFRICA, AGAIN – POP AS POLITICS: WATCH IT TONIGHT ON HBO

By Dominique Malaquais

Blood Money – A Douala Chronicle

By Dominique Malaquais

LINDELA (The Winnie Suite)

By Dominique Malaquais

The Franc-maçonnerie Suite

by Henri Kala-Lobe and Dominique Malaquais

PAINT THE WHITE HOUSE BLACK – A CALL TO ARMS

By Dominique Malaquais

ALL DAY PHAROAH

CHE IN THE CONGO, ELECTRIC GUITARS AND THE INVENTION OF AFRICA

Featuring solos by Franco Luambo Makiadi, Pepe Felly Manuaku, Bansimba

NEW STORIES ABOUT MUSIC IN AFRICA

PASS presents: Salim Washington, Dalisu Ndlazi, Asher Gamedze in conversation

READING FRED HO

Gwen Ansell and Salim Washington celebrate the revolutionary life, language

Chimurenganyana: Home Is Where The Music Is by Uhuru Phalafala (September 2021)

HOME IS WHERE THE MUSIC IS

The latest addition to the Chimurenganyana series

WHO WILL SAVE THE SAVIOURS?

A close gaze at the collective apathy that killed Dr.

From Seven Modes for Hood Science

The black spirit is universally sick with dissimulation and at

THIRD TRANSITION

Shoks Mzolo and Bongani Kona trace the path of South

Labour Tenants South Western Transvaal

"There's no real vocabulary for the non-photographed of apartheid‟ -

The poetics of Futbol

CHIMURENGA SESSION: THE AFRO EURASIAN ECLIPSE

Bebson de la Rue & Tryonix – LIVE at PASS

Bibi Tanga – LIVE at PASS

Anthony Joseph & The Spasm Band – LIVE at Assembly, Cape Town

BLK JKS -LIVE at Assembly, Cape Town

Funsho Ogundipe & Ayetoro – LIVE at PASS

Cindy Blackman Quartet – LIVE at Slave Church, Cape Town

Madala ‘Bafo’ Kunene – LIVE at Slave Church, Cape Town

Toumani Diabate – LIVE at Slave Church, Cape Town (2009)

Studios Kabako presents ‘moremoremore…FUTURE’ – LIVE at City Hall, Cape Town

SONGS FOR BIKO and other stomps, screams and prayers

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