Preliminary Notes for a Mediterranean Manifesto
Connecting ancience and modern roots/routes Rasheed Araeen redraws the boundaries and limits of identity. Mediterranean Manifesto: The Future of Civilisation The Mediterranean as a great means of communication, Interaction and exchange of ideas between three continents [Asia, Africa and Europe]. Once the Mediterranean becomes a great centre of communication, of exchange of ideas, between the West and the East, between the North […]
Gateway
A video-work from Berni Searle‘s “Black smoke rising” trilogy; the title alluding to the controversial N2 Gateway Housing Project in Cape Town. Entering the premises, the Chronic asks: whose house is this? Berni Searle’s video features on the cover of the Burnin’ and A-Lootin’ section of Chimurenga Vol. 16: The Chimurenga Chronic (available here). Set in the week 18-24 May 2008, the Chronic, imagines […]
What Follows? The State of Black Collectivity in the Year of the Sheep
Continuing to sing a vital and urgent message of black collectivity, Harmony Holiday writes from New York critiquing the state of things now and the shape of jazz to come. Here we are at the start of the Year of the Sheep, and may we no longer be martyrs to our own following. In 1977, filmmaker Charles Burnett, wrote and directed […]
Between Worldliness and Exile Homelessness and Cosmopolitanism
With essays by Akin Adesokan, Imraan Coovadia and Ngugi wa Thiong’o bound together, Sean O’Toole examines idiosyncratic writing styles and “the intellectual nature of postcoloniality”. A young boy grows up amid the “unplanned spectacle of the expressive everyday”, a kind of ecstatic fluorescence of culture – music, films, art – that is snuffed out by a military coup. What to do? Like […]
Dispatches from Beirut
Comic artist and musician Mazen Kerbaj keeps a visual diary of a week in Lebanon’s embattled capital. For more of Kerbaj’s works visit mazenkerblog.blogspot.com and/or www.kerbaj.com. This visual diary features in the Media & Technology section of Chimurenga Vol. 16: The Chimurenga Chronic (available here). Set in the week 18-24 May 2008, the Chronic, imagines the newspaper as a producer of time – a time-machine […]