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Poets Pressing Record(s)
by Harmony Holiday Privacy is dead and the word itself sounds a […]
Mythscience Records
Mythscience Records, a label arkiving necessary voices for us all to learn from. Poet Harmony […]
Floyd Mayweather and Improvised Modalities of Rhythm
by Steve Coleman What makes boxing the sweet science is not two […]
Accordion Cowboys
Tseliso Monaheng explores famo, a popular form of accordion music that blends […]
Why music is better than photography
Why music is better than photography: An argument in two parts by Sean […]
Palestine Journey
By Chronic on August 22, 2014 in Archive, Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Faith & Ideology, Systems of Governance
In February 2005, Ishtiyaq Shukri’s novel The Silent Minaret, won the first European […]
Searching for Augusto Zita
From the Namib desert to an interrogation room on US soil, Victor Gama tracks Augusto […]
A New Myth
Illustrator Nolan Oswald Dennis’s ongoing collaboration with Johannesburg-based performance art ensemble The Brother […]
Masquerade
Michael Jackson alive in Nigeria Featuring the maverick Ejiogbe Twins Photographed by […]
11 YRS OF DEMONCRAZY!!!
By Chronic on July 2, 2014 in Archive, Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Cash & Commerce, Faith & Ideology, Media & Propaganda
11 YRS OF DEMONCRAZY!!! O nee Got.!! Got!!! Got!! ! I can’t […]
Historieda
In his letter from Agolam, Yvan Alagbé riffs off a recent visit […]
New Bush, Old Ghosts
Cyber crime is a burgeoning business in West Africa, despite often primitive […]
When You Kill Us, We Rule
By Chronic on June 18, 2014 in Archive, Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies
Audre Lorde‘s poem, “The Black Unicorn”, is woven into rhetorical charcoal drawings by […]
Obstacles
by Anna Kostreva You know those days when it’s so hard […]
A Brief History of Throwing Shit
By Chronic on May 9, 2014 in Archive, Arts & Pedagogy, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
by Rustum Kozain. Shit, muck, drek, kak. Faecal matter. We humans have a […]
On Mermaids and Microwaves
Diriye Osman is a storyteller – on page, stage and canvas. His […]
“Nice Nice” Will Get You Nowhere
Boniface Mwangi is a Kenyan photographer who pulls no punches in using […]
Happy Valentine’s Day
Exactly twenty five years ago today, Salman Rushdie received an unusual Valentine: a […]
Method After Fela
By Chimurenga on February 6, 2014 in Archive, Arts & Pedagogy, Healing & bodies, Systems of Governance
by Akin Adesokan “You reckon a guy just goes and cuts […]
Translations – A Call For Proposals
This call is published in the December 2013 edition […]
Woza Moya
Maakomele R. Manaka revisits a soundtrack of his dreams, long and rhythmic […]
The Last Angel of History
Filmmaker, theorist and co-founder of the Black Audio Film Collective (BAFC) John […]
Say What You Mean
Vocabulary and translation, exercises, games — lessons — from Karen Press for you to get your […]
Depth of Field
Depth of Field (DOF) collective, a group made up of six Nigerian […]
When We Hear the Name of President
Nigerian poet Tanure Ojaide evokes a language of high stakes, hi-jinx, and […]
Lagos Underground
In the 1930s, Harry Beck published a map of the London Underground […]
Lagos: A Pilgrimage in Notations
Having lived away from Nigeria for most of his adult life – […]
Mining Sounds: Lagos – Cairo
Emeka Ogboh‘s art works require audiences to hone their listening and hearing skills. Turning […]
Washing Henry – a letter from New York
by Dave McKenzie As a memento of the process, I received a […]
Interactions: A Strategy of Difference and Repetition
Interactions Interactions is an edited excerpt from filmmaker, writer and artist Aryan […]
Death by Memory [of Freedom]; Truth & Reconciliation
By Chronic on August 5, 2013 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Healing & bodies, Systems of Governance
A tryptych in honour of Steve Biko. Firstly, Graeme Arendse, as his alter-ego Ramgee, presents In […]
America Will Always Blame…
Rigo 23, born Ricardo Gouveia, is a Portuguese muralist, painter, and political […]
What’s Next
Socially conscious rhymes and hipster swag; sexy dance moves and magical mbira; […]
Speech to the Science Graduation Ceremony of the University of Witwatersrand, 2008
By Chronic on August 4, 2013 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Healing & bodies, Systems of Governance
Good Evening. I will use my own life history tonight to argue […]
Senselessness
Stacy Hardy reviews the English translation of Horacio Castellanos Moya‘s Senselessness (New Directions, 2008, Katherine […]
Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989)
Photographs by Rotimi Fani-Kayode. These photos first appeared in print in Chimurenga Vol. 4: Black […]
Rest In Peace Chiwoniso Maraire
Zimbabwean musician Chiwoniso Maraire, died on July 24, 2013, at age 37. […]
We Used To Dance
Sandile Dikeni reviews We Used To Dance, an album from Andile Yenana. Listen. […]
Relaxing
By Chronic on May 31, 2013 in Archive, Arts & Pedagogy, Cash & Commerce, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies
Okello Sam, a dance and theatre artist (amongst other things), examines the […]
Graveyards, monuments and African Studies
by Nicole Sarmiento. “I have argued that the problem with this course is […]
Moses’ outro
Does life begin at 40? That’s the time signature Moses Taiwa Molelekwa […]
Godhead
Excerpted from Godhead, Ho Che Anderson‘s science fiction novel. A kind of class struggle […]
Ten paragraphs of Music Criticism
More Brilliant Than the Sun? Kodwo Eshun discusses ten paragraphs of music criticism. […]
In Defense Of The Films We Have Made
by Odia Ofeimun On the theme of Motion Picture as a tool […]
Bajove Dokotela
Let the good Dr [Philip Tabane] inject you in three ways; music, words, […]
The night Moses died (Parts one and two)
The night Moses died (Part one) by Nicole Turner The night […]
I Smoked A Spliff With Jesus Christ
I smoked a spliff with Jesus Christ last night. Then leaned over […]
Kin La Belle
Yvonne Owuor takes a pilgrimage to Kin La Belle and finds a […]
To Be or Not To Bop
To Be or Not To Bop by Amiri Baraka I was […]
Who Killed Christopher Okigbo
1.Night/Outside At sea. Mythic times There is a storm. We see wooden […]
The anti-art of Kongofuturism
In the multidisciplinary lifework of Bebson Elemba, Eléonore Hellio discovers the mind […]
Reading Fred Ho
A jazz suite in the key of red Gwen Ansell and Salim […]
Call for an Archive of AfroSonics
By Chimurenga on April 13, 2013 in Archive, Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chronic, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Music, PASS
The collective improvisations of black America – and their profound impact on poetry and sound – are near impossible to find in the annals of US academe. In fact, their absence is as stark as the control of archiving is white, writes Harmony Holiday.
Language Games
For poet Karen Press opposites are already united; they depend on each […]
Letters to Hillbrow
As part of a walk-in research project inspired by the novels Welcome […]
Bra Tebs talks
Was Bra Tebs’ “4 Blokes & 1 Doll” show the highlight of Cape […]
The Forest and the Zoo
The Forest and the Zoo* (Aryan Kaganof with Johnny Mbizo Dyani) […]
All Roads Lead to Hendrix
Greg Tate‘s epic Hendrixian map hyperlinked to the hilt. As all roads […]
San Pedro V: The Hope I Hope
Identity, politics, rock ‘n roll, soap operas and sentimental songs; humor, hysteria and […]
The Afflicted Yard: The Rock
In 2004, the famously anonymous British artist Banksy visited Jamaica, and met Peter Dean Rickards, […]
Salut Deleuze!
Culled from a comic book tribute to, and intellectual biography of, Gilles Deleuze […]
Did You Kiss the Dead Body?
Two in one: firstly Rajkamal Kahlon introduces her project, Did You Kiss the Dead Body?, then […]
An Introduction to Arithmetic Sorcery
Cyclonopedia – Complicity with Anonymous Materials (re.press, 2008), a “theoretical-fiction novel” by Iranian […]
The last words of Fela Anikulapo Kuti
In 1996, Keziah Jones visited Kalakuta Republic every day for a week […]
The Boys are Doin’ it!
Fela is dead and so is his anti-materialist political message. Modern Afropop […]
52 Niggers
By Stacy Hardy. Julius Eastman had a way of walking. He had […]
Under the rainbow rays
Dathini Mzayiya‘s new exhibition Onder die reёnboog strale (Under the rainbow rays […]
Dr Satan’s Echo Chamber
Reggae, technology and the diaspora… Louis Chude-Sokei documents the transatlantic (un)making of […]
The Adventures of Dr Evil in Dakar
President Abdoulaye Wade recently claimed intellectual property rights of the “African […]
Les Saignantes
A young woman, beautiful, 20-something, is fucking […]
This Young (Wo)man
Tumelo Khoza at Poetry Africa 16 By Rustum Kozain As […]
Yellow Fever, NKO?
Skin bleaching is often described as a manifestation of ‘colo-mentality’. However, argues […]
Folk Dancing For Beginners
Karen Press (He sets the tone) In my country the president rises […]
Do Right Women: Black Women, Eroticism and Classic Blues
By Kalamu ya Salaam 1. I’m going to show you […]
Evidence
Brent Hayes Edwards The cell is four meters long and two meters […]
Somewhere between a scream and a lullaby
In a city where the boundaries between life and death are laid […]
Sortir de la grande nuit. Essai sur l’Afrique décolonisée
By Chimurenga on December 8, 2010 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
Norbert N. Ouendji interviews Achille Mbembe before Afropolitanism (circa 2010) « Sortir de […]
Felasophy Through the Years: Fond Recollections of Fela Kuti
Growing up in post civil-war Kaduna, Northern Nigeria, in the early seventies, […]
Calabash Afrobeat Poems
By Chimurenga on October 15, 2010 in Arts & Pedagogy, Media & Propaganda, Music, PASS, Systems of Governance, Video
by Dike Okoro Ikwunga Wonodi is not a new face among Afrobeat […]