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

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

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

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

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

Pree Under Pressure

P.A.S.S. HARARE

Chronic Circulations Bibliography

Dislocations in the Congolese World of Sound

TO REFUSE THAT WHICH HAS BEEN REFUSED TO YOU

The “Walking Corpse”

EVERY JOURNEY IS A READING

FROM ORLANDO TO ORLANDO

THE MARTYRDOM OF MAYOR ORLANDO

THINGS THAT GO IN AND OUT OF THE BODY

TO REFUSE THAT WHICH HAS BEEN REFUSED TO YOU

PAN AFRICAN SPACE STATION – THOMAS SANKARA 31 YEARS ON

The Chronic: On Circulations and the African Imagination of a Borderless World (October 2018)

What is the African imagination of a borderless world? What

On Circulations and the African Imagination of a Borderless World

THE IDEA OF A BORDERLESS WORLD

The Nigerian Art of Patronage

Joe An Essay by Sam Kahiga June 2008

HOLIDAY PLANNING WITH HEI VOETSEK!

AT HOME WITH ZEBULON DREAD/SWAMI SITARAM

Civil Lines

FOUR GROUND-BREAKING THINGS IN FIVE ISSUES OF CIVIL LINES OR, WAYS TO GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF THE POSTCOLONIAL SAND

Black Images – An Essay by Peter James Hudson

The Impossible Death of an African Crime Buster

The Emperor of Kinshasa’s Street Comics

Spear: Canada’s Truth and Soul Magazine

Staffriding the Frontline

Staffrider

Of “Brothers with Perfect Timing”

Writing Nervous By Brian Chikwava

Myriem

WHY: An Essay by Nicole Turner

The Invention of Zimbabwe: Chronic launch in Harare

Home draft July

PASS in Harare

Home Means Nothing to Me

Doctor Philip Tabane Lives On

Short Review – The Year of the Rat

Chimurenga Library on Circulations

The Chronic: The Invention of Zimbabwe (April 2018)

14 November 2017. News breaks of a coup d’état underway

PORTRAITS OF POWER

Farai Mudzingwa writes about the power vested within the four

“THE INVENTION OF ZIMBABWE” JHB LAUNCH

Denderah Rising with Georgia Anne Muldrow + Thandi Ntuli Quartet + The Monkey Nuts live in Jo’burg

OF TOTEMS, HISTORY AND POLITICS

Theatre du pouvoir AT the louvre – a letter from Paris

THINKING TOO MUCH

The Making of the Impossible

THE BLACK BOMB

PORTRAIT OF MYSELF AS MY FATHER

NONE BUT OURSELVES

THE WAY I SEE IT – National Heroes Acre I

MURIMI MUNHU

MILKING A DYING COW

kill me already – a letter from Luanda

‘GO TO THE LIMITS OF KNOWLEDGE!’ MURIDISM IN THE LIFE OF CHEIKH ANTA DIOP

CHEIKH ANTA DIOP – AN AWAKENING

BAHUJANAFRIQUE – A PLAUSIBLE FUTURE

ARMY ARRANGEMENT

A BRIEF HISTORY OF CHIMURENGA AS A COMMUNAL LABORATORY

Zidane’s Melancholy

Poverty is Older than Opulence

New Trade Routes: Soccer Cities

Zinedine Zidane and and the event of the secret

Grant Farred produces a Derridean reading of Zidane’s world-stopping head

To Defend and to Question

Zidane, a 21st century portrait

A Secret History of Mr. George Weah

A master of bling with feline style

The Chimurenga Library: Who Killed Kabila – catalogue now available

Keorapetse Kgositsile on Johnny Dyani

Staffriding the Frontline – An Essay by Lesego Rampolokeng

Culture And Resistance In South Africa

Crossing Borders Without Leaving

PASS LANDING AT LA COLONIE, PARIS

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

Le sexe de Matonge

Who Killed Kabila?

Who Killed Kabila I

From December 13 – 17, 2017, Chimurenga installed a library

Corpse Exhibition and Older Graphic Stories

PASS LANDING AT NATIONAL GALLERY OF ZIMBABWE, HARARE

From 9 – 12 November, the Pan African Space Station

Down the footpath

Home is where the music is

Meeting Marti, Neruda and Langa in the streets…

De l’art de vivre l’art

La Puissance De Werewere Liking

The Divine World of Making Things with My Hands

PASS LANDING AT MUSEO TAMAYO, MEXICO CITY

From 4 October – 26 November 2017, the Pan African

A Layered Way of Working

Last Words to the Nation by Salvador Allende

Dictionary of SA Elections 2014

Some African Cultural Concepts By Steve Biko

The Definition Of Black Consciousness by Bantu Stephen Biko

It seeks to infuse the black community with a new-found

English Language Visa

An Essay on Uneven Ribs: a Prelude

La Colonie, Paris: 13 – 17 December 2017

A Brief History of Fufu Pounding

The preparation of fufu is a far from the drudgery

CHIMURENGA@20: NO ONE WILL SAVE YOU – REMEMBERING KENYA’S KARL MARX

Student movements in many African countries have historically confronted contradictions

The Chronic: We Make Our Own Food (April 2017)

In this issue, we put food back on the table:

Download Chimurenga Magazine

Survivor’s Guide to Smelling Naais

Dagga

Rustum Kozain muses over the cultural and alternative relations built,

POWERMONEYSEX READER

A productive working space, a public forum, a research platform

STORIES ABOUT MUSIC IN AFRICA – Ingoma Yomzabalazo with Iphupho Lka Biko

Recorded live at Chimurenga HQ, Cape Town, in February 2017

PASS LANDING AT CIC LIBRARY, CAIRO

From 17 -19 February 2017, the Pan African Space Station

PASS LANDING AT OBA CENTRAL LIBRARY, AMSTERDAM

From 11 -15 December 2016, the Pan African Space Station

Debt and Study

Screaming Through the Galaxy

The Corpse Exhibition [and Other Graphic Stories] (August 2016)

This issue of Chimurenga’s pan-African quarterly gazette, the Chronic, explores

Kallio Library, Helsinki: April 13 – May 28 2016

PASS LANDING AT FREEDOM PARK, LAGOS

From 23 – 26 June 2016, PASS descended on Freedom

The Chronic: The Fiction of International Law (April 2016)

Exploring the tensions between reform and revolution

The Memory of Victory

Ingrained in the DNA of every male growing up in

CHIMURENGA@20: SISTER OUTSIDER

Yemisi Aribisala rails against the new fundamentalism cresting the wave

PASS LANDING AT KALLIO LIBRARY, HELSINKI

Can a past that the present has not yet caught

PASS LANDING AT PERFORMA 15 HUB, NEW YORK

From 11 to 15 November 2015, the Chimurenga Library hosted

PASS LANDING AT THE SHOWROOM, LONDON

In the first week of October 2015, PASS presented a

PASS LANDING AT FOUNDATION CARTIER, PARIS

From 17 – 19 September 2015 , the Pan African

Topaze

Valladolid is not Spain, but it is

Gordon Parks Photo Essay

The Sound of Freedom

Shift The Goalposts Of Disadvantage

Ready, Willing and Able

Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea and Ghana Dominate Women’s Football

‘YOU DON’T GET PAID FOR SOCCER IN SOUTH AFRICA’

Liner Notes

The Curry Chronicles, Part 1

CAMFRANGLAIS – a lexicon

What We Did After We Lost 100 Years of Wealth

Gospel Christian Porn Rap

Roger and Me

Close encounters at the Florida 1000

Invisible Borders

A Pan African Circle of Artists

Mining the Biennale

Boyhood and Transit

Love and Learning Under the World Bank

A Political Economy of Noise

Q&A with Mehari Taddele Maru

Interview with Raila Odinga

Dear Chimurenga- The India-Pakistan Division

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

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

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

MFUMU’ETO

LAMALIF

L’AUTRE AFRIQUE

JOE

HEI VOETSEK!

HAMBONE

GLENDORA REVIEW

FRANK TALK

ECRANS D’AFRIQUE

Civil Lines

CHIEF PRIEST SAY

Black Images

Amkenah

AFRICAN FILM

Who invented truth﻿

A Day in the Life of Idi Amin

Where Is This Place

DISCOVERING HOME

The Most Authentic Real Black Africanest Togo Soccer team Story

Nothing was impossible for a writer like him

How To Be A Dictator

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

Pass Me the Microphone: Phoebe Boswell

Not in My Neighborhood Film Screening

PASS LANDING AT MUMA, MELBOURNE

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

Pree Under Pressure

P.A.S.S. HARARE

Chronic Circulations Bibliography

Dislocations in the Congolese World of Sound

TO REFUSE THAT WHICH HAS BEEN REFUSED TO YOU

The “Walking Corpse”

EVERY JOURNEY IS A READING

FROM ORLANDO TO ORLANDO

THE MARTYRDOM OF MAYOR ORLANDO

THINGS THAT GO IN AND OUT OF THE BODY

TO REFUSE THAT WHICH HAS BEEN REFUSED TO YOU

PAN AFRICAN SPACE STATION – THOMAS SANKARA 31 YEARS ON

The Chronic: On Circulations and the African Imagination of a Borderless World (October 2018)

On Circulations and the African Imagination of a Borderless World

THE IDEA OF A BORDERLESS WORLD

The Nigerian Art of Patronage

Joe An Essay by Sam Kahiga June 2008

HOLIDAY PLANNING WITH HEI VOETSEK!

Who invented truth

Last Words to the Nation by Salvador Allende