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Category: Archive

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

DRYLONGSO Film Screening

Wednesday, 12 November 2025, 7pm

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

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

Thursday, 16 October from 7pm

THE FASTEST TITLER IN AMERICA

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

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

LISTEN: MBIZO! – a gathering for Johnny Dyani

Performed LIVE at CONSTELLATION, Chicago

On Mermaids and Microwaves

What if you don’t want a microwave meal? What if

A Night with a Elephant – a live reading

We are delighted to present a live reading of "Night

Homeless in the Afterlife

Myriad and alienating bureaucratic procedures often delay the passing of

THIS THING CALLED SOUL MUSIC

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

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

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,

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

Woza Moya

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

Cover Story

He's been described as the "founding father of African literature",

Guilt Trips

Kai Friese interrogates the colonial fantasy that lives on in

How Third World Students Liberated the West

In a twist to mainstream tropes of radical student movements

JOE

FRANK TALK

Black Images

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

Not in My Neighborhood Film Screening

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!

P.A.S.S. HARARE

Dislocations in the Congolese World of Sound

TO REFUSE THAT WHICH HAS BEEN REFUSED TO YOU

EVERY JOURNEY IS A READING

AT HOME WITH ZEBULON DREAD/SWAMI SITARAM

The Impossible Death of an African Crime Buster

Myriem

Home draft July

Home Means Nothing to Me

Chimurenga Library on Circulations

kill me already – a letter from Luanda

Zidane’s Melancholy

New Trade Routes: Soccer Cities

To Defend and to Question

Zidane, a 21st century portrait

A Secret History of Mr. George Weah

Staffriding the Frontline – An Essay by Lesego Rampolokeng

The Divine World of Making Things with My Hands

Some African Cultural Concepts By Steve Biko

The Hunger Games

Dear President Museveni

Pan African Activism Meets Mamdanisation

Bread of Life

Calabar Winch

Rented Grave: Looking beyond the rural-urban dichotomy

You Can’t Get Lost in the Samoosa Triangle*

Marikana

Debt and Study

Screaming Through the Galaxy

Corpse Exhibition

A Long History of Prince’s Hairstyles

Reform and Revolution: The Destruction of the University

Preliminary Notes for a Mediterranean Manifesto

A Pan African Circle of Artists

Ayinde Barrister: Tribute to a True Exponent

The Sahara is not a Boundary

It Can Only Go Up From Here

The African Affairs Bureau

Jeune Afrique Map

On the Meaning of the Timbuktu Manuscripts

Under Nelson Mandela Boulevard

Under the Caine Bridge

Calling Mrs Museveni

Both Sides Then and Now

Authority Stealing in Nigeria

The Scandal

How the Attacks were Planned

I Think I’ll Call it Morning

The Last King of Africa

Creative Industries as Underdevelopment

African War Machines

Gateway

What Follows? The State of Black Collectivity in the Year of the Sheep

Propaganda and Politics tunnel vision history of art activism in South Africa

AF 888

Palestine Journey

Searching for Augusto Zita

Visioncarnation

The Black Guru

Masquerade

The cosmic lives and afterlives of Zebulon Dread

11 YRS OF DEMONCRAZY!!!

Historieda

Motshumi’s Country

Obi’s Nightmare

New Bush, Old Ghosts

When You Kill Us, We Rule

Sketches of ‘Trane

Obstacles

Not only our land but also our souls

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?

Happy Valentine’s Day

Method After Fela

Fifty Years Of African Decolonisation

In Praise of Complexity

Translations – A Call For Proposals

‘Nation Is A Skin Stretched Over The Bones Of The State’

A Letter from Home

Paris-Algiers, Underground Class

I Travel with the Dead

The Last Angel of History

Protected: Tawfiq Saleh: To Rise and Fall on One’s Own Terms

A History of Blacks on the Green

Setting The Pace is a Small Town’s Big Business

Fuzzy Goo’s Guide (to the Earth)

Even the Dead

Nothing but… Grobbelaar

Ready, Willing & Able

Shoes

You’re… Terminated

Stickfighting Days

A Three Point Shot from Andromeda

Say What You Mean

Onitsha Republic

Depth of Field

Neo Africanus: In Teju Cole’s World

I Have Always Meant to Fail

How to be a Nigerian

A Corpse and its Jurisdiction – a letter from Lagos

When We Hear the Name of President

George Osodi

Lagos Underground

Lagos: A Pilgrimage in Notations

Bantu Serenade

Washing Henry – a letter from New York

Altourism – Where Altruism Meets Adventure

Laugh it Off

Interactions: A Strategy of Difference and Repetition

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

America Will Always Blame…

Howl Marikana

Dead Cow Spreads Fear and Rumour in Lagos Suburb

Dance of the Infidels presents: Nollywood Confidential

Godhead

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

What’s Next

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

Graveyards, monuments and African Studies

Achebe The Native Intellectual

Moses’ outro

Ten paragraphs of Music Criticism

The night Moses died (Parts one and two)

Kin La Belle

To Be or Not To Bop

The anti-art of Kongofuturism

Call for an Archive of AfroSonics

The collective improvisations of black America – and their profound

Imprinting Afrosonics

Beautiful Voices – a call for AstroandAfrosonics recordings

Language Games

Letters to Hillbrow

Is Biko’s legacy being besmirched?

Monica Maxwell and Samson Botsotso

Bra Tebs talks

Diary Of A Bad Year

All Roads Lead to Hendrix

Walking through walls

When history is suspended

Must You Stage an Escape?

San Pedro V: The Hope I Hope

New Bushs Old Ghosts

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