Chimurenganyana: The Forest & The Zoo by Aryan Kaganoff (June 2012)

By Chimurenga on May 27, 2012 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chimurenga Library, Healing & bodies, Library Book Series

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

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

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LEPHEPHE PRINT GATHERINGS 5 – CAPE TOWN

Urbanism Beyond Architecture – African Cities as Infrastructure

Quel Est L’Endroit Idéal

FESTAC 77 BOOK – OUT NOW

Senegal & Festac 77

IN THE BOOKSHOP: KINSHASA CHRONIQUES / KINSHASA CHRONICLES

TRACKS﻿

Labour Tenants South Western Transvaal

It Begins with a Place

Asia in My Life

The Spark of Life: Where Novels Come From

Ten Pieces of Advice for the Writing Life

Like Words For Weapons

Mafika Gwala speaks to Andrea Meeson about not living in the shadows.

FESTAC 77 BOOK – Sample spreads

Listen to “Sankomota: An Ode in One Album”

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WHO KILLED KABILA: CAST OF CHARACTERS

IN THE DEN OF THE ALCHEMIST

Timbuktu: An Old African Saying

The Pharaoh’s New Clothes

Archie Shepp’s Shirt Suggests

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

Crossroads Republic

La Colonie, Paris: 13 – 17 December 2017

Kallio Library, Helsinki: April 13 – May 28 2016

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

Installations

Who Killed Kabila

Lower Frequencies

New Cartographies

Panafest

Search Sweet Country

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

Steal Back the Treasure

Festac ’77 – a faction by Akin Adesokan

BLACKOUT x 7 Octobre

10 Paragraphs of Music Criticism

The Tyelera Moment

Frantz Fanon’s Uneven Ribs

Colossal KOUROUMA

FESTAC ’77 – the Book and LP soon come!

P.A.S.S. HARARE

TRACKS

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