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Paris

Dans le cadre de la Saison Africa 2020 (reportée en

IMAGI-NATION NWAR

BIBLIOTHEQUE CHIMURENGA AT BPI/CENTRE POMPIDOU, PARIS (2019-21)

SALIM WASHINGTON, DALISU NDLAZI, ASHER GAMEDZE… IN CONVERSATION

QAMATA PULA — an ancestral invocation

PASS LANDING AT LAVOIR MODERNE PARISIEN, PARIS

OF WOUNDS, OF HANDS – live on PASS – 08 July 2021

a word/sound documentary by the Insurrections Ensemble, with an introduction

Between the Lines of an Unpatriotic Presidential Pre-Recorded Address

FOURTH REPUBLIC 19 conducts a post-mortem on not-so-presidential minutes in

SALIM WASHINGTON, DALISU NDLAZI, ASHER GAMEDZE… IN CONVERSATION

Thursday, 24 June 2021 - 6pm

Chimurenganyana: Even When My Soup-curlers Slur, I Still Keep the Take by Georgia Anne Muldrow (June 2021)

A limited Chimurenganyana edition of Even When My Soup-Curlers Slur,

EVEN WHEN MY SOUP-CURLERS SLUR BY GEORGIA ANNE MULDROW – OUT NOW!

A limited Chimurenganyana edition of Even When My Soup-Curlers Slur,

RADIO MAC ON PASS – 14-21 June

Chimurenga and Hangar (Lisbon) present Radio MAC live on PASS

The Enemy in Her Imagination: A Fable

Rahel first met the young, 11-year old boy, on December

BLACK SUNLIGHT – A broadcast for Dambudzo Marechera on his 69th

Imagi-nation nwar – a PASS session in Paris

From 5-9 May 2021, Chimurenga’s Pan African Space Station (PASS)

THE SUMMER OF ’69

Writer Pierre Crépon selects recordings illustrating his essay on the

Remember Glissant

Moses März writes of Édouard Glissant, Martinican, poet and compatriot

CHIMURENGA CHRONIC – IMAGI-NATION NWAR – OUT NOW!

PASS in Oslo (17 – 20 February 2021)

PANAFEST, hosted by Chimurenga

A web documentary, audio-video archive and online cartography, that chronicles

On the Digital Application of Ancestral Work

African spirituality as practiced digitally was amplified by COVID-19.

POVERTY IS OLDER THAN OPULENCE

Diego Maradona is the man who exploded the shame of

“The Oppressor Remains What He Is”

A conversation between writer Boubacar Boris Diop and scholar Jean-Pierre

QAMATA PULA, an ancestral invocation

iPhupho L’ka Biko and Pan African Space Station present QAMATA

A TRIBUTE TO DON CHERRY’S ORGANIC MUSIC SOCIETY (1967 – 1978)

Creative Urban Momentum: Witnessing the Black Unity Trio

In anticipation of the release of Black Unity Trios' legendary

FESTAC 77 T-SHIRT – AVAILABLE NOW!

A limited edition of the iconic FESTAC 77 t-shirt now

Chimurenganyana: Becoming Kwame Ture by Amandla Thomas-Johnson (Oct 2020)

BECOMING KWAME TURE – OUT NOW!

The 12th Annual Abdullah Ibrahim Festival

CHIMURENGA@20: THE BARD OF BLOEMFONTEIN

Achal Prabhala goes to the heart of the Free State

THIRD CLASS CITY

South Africa thinks that India owes it one for putting

Ibadan, Soutin and the Puzzle of Bower’s Tower

The jingle would survive the event, as the poetry of

Where Terror Lies

The rhetoric of ‘radical’ and ‘fundamentalist’ Islam, of ‘global jihad’

Nigeria’s Superstar Men Of God

Who needs the God of the bible with his promises

African Cities Reader I: Pan-African Practices

Featuring writing and musings by Rustum Kozain, Jean-Christophe Lanquetin, Gabeba

Chimurenga 16 – The Chimurenga Chronicle (October 2011)

A once-off edition of a speculative, future-forward newspaper that travels

Chimurenga 14 – Everyone Has Their Indian (April 2009)

This issue features words and images on the Third World

Chimurenga 15 – The Curriculum Is Everything (June 2010)

Presented in the form of a textbook, Chimurenga 15 simultaneously

Chimurenga 7 – Kaapstad! (and Jozi, the night Moses died) (July 2005)

A collection of musings – in words, images and sounds

Chimurenga 6 – Orphans of Fanon (October 2004)

A series of conversations, real and imagined, on the “pitfalls

Chimurenga 5 – Head/Body(&Tools)/Corpses (April 2004)

An issue inspired by the life and work of Bessie

Chimurenga 8 – We’re All Nigerian! (December 2005)

An exploration of a love-hate, admiration-envy, awe-disappointment relationship with “Nigerianess”;

Chimurenga 9 – Conversations in Luanda, and Other Graphic Stories (June 2006)

For this one we trawled the globe for ink artists/wordists

Chimurenga 10 – Futbol, Politricks and Ostentatious Cripples (December 2006)

We scope the stadia, markets, ngandas and banlieues to spotlight

Chimurenga 11 – Conversations with Poets Who Refuse to Speak (July 2007)

This issue is about silence, disappearing oneself as act. Though

Chimurenga 2 – Dis-Covering Home [run nigga run] (July 2002)

Home, lost and found. Takes by Mahmood Mamdani, Julian Jonker,

Chimurenga 3 – Biko in Parliament (November 2002)

“Mandela was not the only head of state taken in

Chimurenga 4 – Black Gays & Mugabes (May 2003)

On desire and its discontents. Featuring a new adaptation of

Chimurenga 1 – Music is the Weapon (April 2002)

“…The struggle of black people inevitably appear in an intensely

African Cities Reader II: Mobilities & Fixtures

The second installment of the Reader features Sean O’Toole, David

African Cities Reader III: Land, Property & Value

The third installment of the Reader explores the unholy trinity

De l’art de vivre l’art

By Dominique Malaquais

THE POETRY OF ABBEY LINCOLN

Live from 5pm Friday 21 August 2020 panafricanspacestation.org.za

Abbey Lincoln’s Scream: Poetic Improvisation as a Way of Life

We are standing under a glaring spotlight screaming at the

The Meaning of Being Numerous

The man who sets up the bomb is long gone

FESTAC AT 45: FESTAC ’77, a mixtape by Chimurenga

In this mix, we decompose, an-arrange and reproduce the sound-world

TRACKS

MADEYOULOOK collective met with photographer Santu Mofokeng to establish the

Yellow Fever, Nko?

Skin bleaching is often described as a manifestation of ‘colo-mentality’.

RIP PAPA GEORGE

They Won’t Go When I Go

A Manifesto/ Meditation on State of Black Archives in America

How Third World Students Liberated the West

In a twist to mainstream tropes of radical student movements

Monumental Failures

By Dominique Malaquais

Reproducing Festac ’77: A secret among a family of millions

Kwanele Sosibo speaks with Ntone Edjabe about the creation of,

Festac at 45: Steal Back the Treasure

In pirating the head of Queen Idia to use it

FESTAC ’77

Early in 1977, thousands of artists, writers, musicians, activists and

LEPHEPHE PRINT GATHERINGS 5 – CAPE TOWN

Urbanism Beyond Architecture – African Cities as Infrastructure

Vyjayanthi Rao, in conversation with Filip de Boeck & Abdou

Quel Est L’Endroit Idéal

Les Brasseries du Cameroun is the country’s largest industry and

FESTAC 77 BOOK – OUT NOW

Early in 1977, thousands of artists, writers, musicians, activists and

Senegal & Festac 77

A presentation of Chimurenga's book, FESTAC '77, with Dialo Diop,

IN THE BOOKSHOP: KINSHASA CHRONIQUES / KINSHASA CHRONICLES

Kinshasa Chronicles is a richly textured encounter featuring seventy artists,

Wrestling With A Warlord

Louis Chude-Sokei narrates a story of Nigeria, of splintered identity,

Monday Blues for Sandile Dikeni

Join us in celebrating the life and work of our

RIP Sandile Dikeni

Rest in peace Sandile Dikeni – poet, brother, comrade, a

HOW THE WEST WAS LOST

If one thinks about it the whole thing goes back

Who Kill Kabila – Angola Mix

We tune into radio trottoir, radio one battery, radio 33,

PASS LANDING AT THE NEW SCHOOL, NEW YORK

Listen to “Sankomota: An Ode in One Album”

On 31 May, we hosted the launch of Phehello Mofokeng‘s

FESTAC ’77: PASS Playlist

A Festac 77 Mixtape featuring Randy Weston, Mandla Langa, Carlos

FESTAC ’77 Celebration in New York City – 23 – 25 October 2019

From 23 – 25 October 2019, Chimurenga will install its

FESTAC 77 BOOK – Sample spreads

FESTAC '77 (2019). 448 pages, colour illustrations featuring extensive unseen

Stories About Music in Africa

Recorded in the darkness and unpredictability of load shedding, Dumama

SALUT GLISSANT

“Nothing is true, everything is alive.” Moses März, imagines a

IN MEMORIAM: Binyavanga Wainaina (1971 – 2019)

A friend, a Chimurenga founding father, an award winning writer,

The Chronic: Who Killed Kabila

This issue of the Chronic presents this query as the

Colossal KOUROUMA

What could have happened in his head to take literally

WHO KILLED KABILA: CAST OF CHARACTERS

The cast list of actors and character who make an

No Pass, But Nine Passports

In her 30 years of exile, Miriam Makeba redefined pan

Frantz Fanon’s Uneven Ribs

For me knowledge is very powerful. Any knowledge has claws

POETS WITH GUNS: A CONVERSATION WITH CHIRIKURE CHIRIKURE

Dislocations in the Congolese World of Sound

A few years ago, while researching the political history of

A Comet is Coming: Shabaka Hutchings & The Brother Moves On

This installment of Stories about Music in Africa features Shabaka

Relaxing

Okello Sam examines the conceptual difference between work and relaxation

HIKIMA – a letter from Zaria

She eyed me. A thing wet around her eyes, like

Denderah Rising with Georgia Anne Muldrow + Thandi Ntuli Quartet + The Monkey Nuts

“Sound is defined by vibrations that travel through the air

Search Sweet Country

In conversation with Binyavanga Wainaina, Kojo Laing talks to a

Denderah Rising with Georgia Anne Muldrow + Thandi Ntuli Quartet + The Monkey Nuts

Hypnotic Brass Ensemble – LIVE at Centre for The Book, Cape Town

The Invention of Africa by Franco & T.P.OK Jazz

The output of Luambo Makiadi aka Franco, from the legendary

IN THE DEN OF THE ALCHEMIST

Which “they”? Which “one”? What “secrets” are you talking about?

N’Dombolo: the postulation of the post-Zaïko generation

First and foremost, an artistic secretion (the magical respiration of

The Agronomist

Stacy Hardy follows the path of JJ Machobane, the social

P.A.S.S. HARARE

Whatever Zimbabwe is, and is becoming, already exists in the

“We should take out that word ‘national’ and reconstruct that word ‘theatre’….

Perfect, perfect, you have solved the problem for me, we

Crossroads Republic

The Nigerian superstar bandleader Fela Anikulapo-Kuti hosted a covert summit

Dr Philip Tabane & Malombo LIVE at St George’s Cathedral, Cape Town

Georgia Anne Muldrow & Declaime LIVE at Guga S’thebe, Langa

Imperial Tiger Orchestra – LIVE at Albert Hall, Cape Town

Kyle Shepherd – LIVE at St Georges Cathedral, Cape Town

Theo Parrish – LIVE at Albert Hall, Cape Town

Brice Wassy LIVE at Albert Hall

Nothembi Mkhwebane – LIVE from Centre for the Book, Cape Town

Udaba ft. Kgafela oa Mogogodi – LIVE at Centre for the Book, Cape Town

Franck Biyong – LIVE at Centre for the Book, Cape Town

Cultural Musical Club – LIVE at St Georges Cathedral

‘War Chorale’ by Bheki Khoza – LIVE at St Georges Cathedral

The Shebeen as College of Music

Netsayi & Black Pressure live at Slave Church, Cape Town

The Forest and The Zoo Lives On

Thath’i Cover Okestra LIVE at Guga S’thebe

PASS presents: FOKN Bois (LIVE at Greatmore Studios)

Floating Points LIVE at Gugu S’thebe Theatre

Dakar

“Angazi, but I’m sure” is a common South African phrase.

Paris

Chimurenga returned to Paris for a 5-day intervention and installation

Helsinki

In April and May 2016, Chimurenga installed the Chimurenga Library

New York

At Performa 2015, the Chimurenga Library took the form of

London

For the first UK presentation, Chimurenga infiltrated The Showroom’s building

San Francisco

Presented as part of the exhibition Public Intimacy, Chimurenga Library

Eindhoven

Reviewed in Frieze Magazine: “The politico-literary collective Chimurenga, primarily a

Cape Town Central Library

Presented in and around the Cape Town Central Library from

New Cartographies

Since its launch in 2011, every edition of The Chronic

Comics & Lower Frequencies

Africa has a long history of comic production that span

Panafest

From January 15 to February 12 1977, thousands of artists,

New York, USA: 7-11 November 2015

Showroom Gallery London, UK: 8 October – 21 November 2015

San Francisco Public Library San Francisco, US: 24 May – 29 June 2014

MU, Eindhoven, Netherlands, 21 May – 1 August 2010

Cape Town Central Library, Cape Town: 2 May – 21 June 2009

Who Killed Kabila

New Cartographies

Y MAGAZINE (THE FIRST 5 ISSUES)

UNIR CINéMA

WIETIE

TWO TONE

TSOTSO

THIRD TEXT

THE UN-COLLECTED WRITINGS OF GREG TATE

THE LIBERATOR MAGAZINE

THE CRICKET – BLACK MUSIC IN EVOLUTION

THE BOOK OF TONGUES

STRAIGHT NO CHASER

STAFFRIDER

SPEAR

Souffles

SAVACOU

REVUE NOIRE

OKYEAME

MOTO

MOLOTOV COCKTAIL

An intellectually militant periodical, first published in 2007

MFUMU’ETO

LAMALIF

L’AUTRE AFRIQUE

JOE

HEI VOETSEK!

HAMBONE

GLENDORA REVIEW

FRANK TALK

ECRANS D’AFRIQUE

Civil Lines

CHIEF PRIEST SAY

Black Images

Founded in 1972 by elusive, visionary editor, Jamaican-born Rudolph “Rudy”

Amkenah

AFRICAN FILM

Published by Drum in Nigeria and later also Kenya and

Who invented truth

Tired of truth, I am. And metanarratives and more truth

A Day in the Life of Idi Amin

The hot dry breeze is lazy. It glides languorously collecting

Where Is This Place

Keguro Macharia asks how might one describe where One Day

DISCOVERING HOME

The Most Authentic Real Black Africanest Togo Soccer team Story

Nothing was impossible for a writer like him

Billy Kahora on Binyavanga Wainaina’s Work

How To Be A Dictator

Binyavanga Wainaina presents 16 Rules for Big Man aspirations

An excerpt from ‘Hell Is In Bed With Mrs Preprah’

Binyavanga Wainaina charts the aesthetics of black hair, beership and

Pass Me the Microphone: Phoebe Boswell

Stories and sounds from the Swahili coast… sampling Binyavanga Wainaina’s

WHAT AFRICAN WRITERS CAN LEARN FROM CHEIKH ANTA DIOP

In a testament to Cheikh Anta Diop, Boubacar Boris Diop

Not in My Neighborhood Film Screening

PASS LANDING AT MUMA, MELBOURNE

From 11-13 April 2019, the Pan African Space Station landed

PASS presents DUMAMA & KECHOU ft. MADALA ‘BAFO’ KUNENE

‎Sankomota: An Ode in One Album – A Reflective Essay

Pungwe Sound Trails Live On PASS

PASS is going to Australia!

Neo Muyanga – The Sex For Money No Power Mixtape

Revisit moments from the PASS landing in Amsterdam

Udaba with Kgafela oa Mogogodi – LIVE at Centre for the Book, Cape Town (2009)

Denderah Rising with Georgia Anne Muldrow + Thandi Ntuli Quartet + The Monkey Nuts

BLACKOUT x 7 Octobre

10 Paragraphs of Music Criticism

The Tyelera Moment

La République et sa Bête : à propos des émeutes dans les banlieues de France

Lindela (the winnie suite)

FESTAC ’77 – the Book and LP soon come!

Chimurenga Named Winner 2018–20 Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice

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