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HOPHUIS: A SITE OF DANCE AND SOLIDARITY
By Chimurenga on 3 November 2023 in Arts & Pedagogy, Cash & Commerce, Chimurenga Library, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Indie Books, Music
Never, ever let any monster abuse your science!
By Chronic on 13 October 2023 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Healing & bodies, Systems of Governance
Renfrew Christie’s Speech to the Science Graduation Ceremony of the University of Witwatersrand, 2008
LAUNCHING MINE MINE MINE
By Chimurenga on 11 October 2023 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Cash & Commerce, Chimurenga Library, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Indie Books
Chimurenga Factory
Thu, 12 Oct 2023 from 6pm
LIBERATION RADIO: MEDU ARTS ENSEMBLE
The music unit of Medu Arts Ensemble consisted of two bands, Shakawe and Kalahari
LATEST CHIMURENGANYANA OUT NOW!
By Chimurenga on 20 September 2023 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chimurenga Library, Healing & bodies, Library Book Series
THE GARDEN LETTERS OF YVONNE VERA by Tadiwa Madenga
EPISTROPHIES
By Chimurenga on 5 September 2023 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Healing & bodies, Music, PASS
Saturday, 16 September 2023 from 6pm
Chimurenga Factory (157 Victoria Rd, Woodstock)
Melodious Thunk
Everyone in the neighbourhood knew him. Walking to the shops, kids called out, Hey, Monk, howya doin? Where ya bin, Monk? and he mumbled something back, stopping to shake hands or just sway back and forth on the sidewalk.
CHIMURENGANYANA: MUSIC NOTEBOOK OUT NOW!
By Chimurenga on 17 August 2023 in Arts & Pedagogy, Chimurenga Library, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Library Book Series, Music
MUSIC NOTEBOOK by Ari Sitas
CLASS STRUGGLE IN MUSIC
By Chimurenga on 14 August 2023 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chimurenga Library, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Library Book Series, Media & Propaganda, Music
Chimurenga Factory – 157 Victoria Rd, Woodstock
Thursday, 17 August 2023 from 6pm
Notes for an Oratorio on small things that fall
By Chimurenga on 12 July 2023 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Cash & Commerce, Chimurenga Library, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Reviews, Systems of Governance
Aditi Hunma reviews the launch of Notes for an Oratorio on Small Things That Fall, the latest offering from Ari Sitas
You Ain’t Gonna Know Me ‘Cos You Think You Know Me
a gathering ‘n broadcast for our dearly departed brother Malesela Joey Modiba (1986-2023)
AZANIA EP LISTENING SESSION
Chimurenga Factory – Fri, 07 July 2023 from 6pm
CHIMURENGA PRESENTS SOCIAL BREATH
a collective improvisation
16 June 2023
LATEST IN STORE: CHANTS, DREAMS AND OTHER GRAMMARS OF LOVE
By Chimurenga on 3 May 2023 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chimurenga Library, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda
a gedenkschrift for Harry Garuba
REVIEW: AND THE BOOKS LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER
By Chimurenga on 3 May 2023 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chronic, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Reviews
Harry Garuba reviews reissues of Amos Tutuola’s writings
CHIMURENGANYANA: LA DISCOTHEQUE DE SARAH MALDOROR
By Chimurenga on 15 March 2023 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chimurenga Library, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Library Book Series, Music
This entry in our Chimurenganyana series takes the form of a mixtape […]
La Discothèque de Sarah Maldoror (tracklisting)
By Chimurenga on 14 March 2023 in Arts & Pedagogy, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Music, PASS, Research, Systems of Governance
decomposed, an-arranged, and reproduced by Ntone Edjabe
FIELD RECORDINGS WITH SHABAKA HUTCHINGS
By Chimurenga on 21 February 2023 in Arts & Pedagogy, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Music, PASS, Research
FIELD RECORDINGS
WED, 22 FEB 2023 from 6PM
A RADIO PROGRAMME ON THE LIFE AND WORK OF THE MYSTIC REVELATION OF RASTAFARI
By Chimurenga on 10 February 2023 in Arts & Pedagogy, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Music, PASS, Research
Live on PASS – 14 February 2023, from 6pm
GROUNATION – a tribute to the Mystic Revelation of Rastafari
By Chimurenga on 25 January 2023 in Arts & Pedagogy, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Music, PASS, Research
“Grounation Day” marks the landing of Emperor Selassie I in Jamaica on April 21, 1966.
Chimurenga presents GROUNATION
By Chimurenga on 25 January 2023 in Arts & Pedagogy, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Live Events, Music, PASS, Research
a tribute to the Mystic Revelation of Rastafari
LIBERATION RADIO: TUMI MOGOROSI’S GROUP THEORY:BLACK MUSIC
By Chimurenga on 16 January 2023 in Arts & Pedagogy, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Live Events, Music, PASS
The latest episode in the Stories About Music in Africa series
MYSTIC REVELATION OF RASTAFARI
By Chimurenga on 10 January 2023 in Arts & Pedagogy, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Music, PASS
We shall open this new cycle of programming with a month-long tribute to the almighty Mystic Revelation of Rastafari.
CHIMURENGA@20: IN PRAISE OF INDIGENOUS AFRICAN WORDFORM
By Chimurenga on 24 November 2022 in Arts & Pedagogy, Cash & Commerce, Chronic, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda
Have African literary forms been lost in a morass of European culture? For more than half a century Taban Lo Liyong has lamented thus.
THE WRITINGS OF BINYAVANGA WAINAINA
By Chimurenga on 21 November 2022 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Cash & Commerce, Chimurenga Library, Faith & Ideology, Gaming, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
Launching a new collection of writings by the late, great Binyavanga Wainaina
LIBERATION RADIO
By Chimurenga on 15 November 2022 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Cash & Commerce, Faith & Ideology, Gaming, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, PASS, Systems of Governance
an ongoing query on knowledge production via African sound worlds, and long-term research on broadcasting and cultural initiatives by liberation movements across the continent
I’M NOT WHO YOU THINK I’M NOT
By Chimurenga on 11 November 2022 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chronic, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies
Serubiri Moses reflects on Binyavanga Wainaina’s refusal to fit neatly into neat identities.
I am a homosexual, Mum
A lost chapter from One Day I Will Write About This Place
CHIMURENGA@20: Midway Between Silence and Speech
The art and incarnation of Justine Gaga.
LIBERATION RADIO: MASELLO MOTANA’S VOCAL MUSEUM
By Chimurenga on 26 October 2022 in Arts & Pedagogy, Gaming, Healing & bodies, Live Events, Music, PASS
The latest episode in the Stories About Music in Africa series, now available
MALCOLM JIYANE’S TREE-O
By Chimurenga on 24 October 2022 in Arts & Pedagogy, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Live Events, Music, PASS
Live at Chimurenga Factory – Fri, 28 October 2022
TUMI MOGOROSI’S GROUP THEORY:BLACK MUSIC
By Chimurenga on 17 October 2022 in Arts & Pedagogy, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Live Events, Music, PASS
Live at Chimurenga Factory – Sat, 22 Oct 2022
The Music Mind of Greg Tate: Sonic Syllabus for a Patternmaster
By Chimurenga on 11 October 2022 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, PASS
A 5-hour music selection in memory of Greg Tate on his arrival day, October 14 – live on the Pan African Space Station from 6pm SA time
LIBERATION MUSIC AT THE CHIMURENGA FACTORY – OCTOBER 2022
Tumi Mogorosi’s Group Theory:Black Music and Malcolm Jiyane’s Tree-O
CHIMURENGA@20: MURIMI MUNHU
By Chimurenga on 26 September 2022 in Chronic, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Systems of Governance
Panashe Chigumadzi travels to the rural Zimbabwe of her ancestors, onto land stolen and cash-cropped by a privileged minority under racist white rule.
Euredice Zaituna Kala’s JE SUIS L’ARCHIVE / I, THE ARCHIVE
Live on PASS – 13 Sep 2022 from 6pm
LIBERATION RADIO
By Chimurenga on 8 August 2022 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Cash & Commerce, Faith & Ideology, Gaming, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Music, PASS, PASS Pop Up, Systems of Governance
We’re proud to present a new edition of “Liberation Radio”
CHIMURENGA@20: AZANIA SALUTES TOSH
By Chimurenga on 27 July 2022 in Chimurenga Magazine, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
On the eve of the tenth anniversary of the death of Bantu Steve Biko, a stunned and outraged Azania heard that the Vampire had martyred Peter Tosh.
SOUNDGARDEN
By Chimurenga on 13 July 2022 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Live Events, PASS
a live reading for Bessie Head’s 85th
13 July 2022 from 6pm
MASELLO MOTANA’S VOCAL MUSEUM
By Chimurenga on 28 June 2022 in Arts & Pedagogy, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Live Events, Media & Propaganda, Music, PASS
Live at the Chimurenga Factory
CHIMURENGA@20: STICKFIGHTING DAYS
Everyone knows I’m a two-stick man. But, I’m not ready to go up against Markham again just yet. Or any of the other top stickfighters. I’ve been trying some new moves. I feel close to a breakthrough in terms of technique. But it’s not quite there
IN MEMORIAM: OMOSEYE BOLAJI (1964-2022)
By Chimurenga on 7 June 2022 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chronic, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda
We remember Nigerian-born writer, Omoseye Bolaji (1964-2022), and his immense contribution to the growth of African literature in South Africa, and particularly in the Free State, where he lived.
CHIMURENGA@20: WHEN YOU KILL US, WE RULE!
By Chimurenga on 7 June 2022 in Arts & Pedagogy, Chimurenga Magazine, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
In 1996, Keziah Jones visited Kalakuta Republic every day for a week to interview Fela Anikulapo Kuti. On the fifth day, after waiting six hours, Keziah got to speak with Fela, who he remarked kept you in “constant and direct eye contact” and spoke “in short bursts of baritone.”
CHIMURENGA@20: MONDAY BLUES FOR SANDILE DIKENI
The most recent episode of Stories About Music in Africa is Monday Blues for Sandile Dikeni
LIBERATION RADIO: PEOPLE WHO THINK TOGETHER, DANCE TOGETHER #7
By Chimurenga on 23 May 2022 in Arts & Pedagogy, Cash & Commerce, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, PASS, Systems of Governance
Conversations with Christian Nyampeta, featuring Hannah Black, Sasha Bonét, Natacha Nsabimana, Olu Oguibe and Emmanuel Olunkwa.
Live on PASS – 24-26 May 2022 – from 6pm
CHIMURENGA@20: THE WARM-UP
By Chimurenga on 19 April 2022 in Chimurenga Magazine, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
The xenophobic violence that swept through many communities in South Africa in 2008 was not a sudden phenomenon. Victims and an alleged instigator date the origins of this wave to a township in Pretoria, writes Kwanele Sosibo.
Launching NOTES FOR AN ORATORIO ON SMALL THINGS THAT FALL
By Chimurenga on 12 April 2022 in Cash & Commerce, Chimurenga Library, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, News, Systems of Governance
Wednesday, 13 April 2022
Chimurenga Factory
6pm
iPhupho L’ka Biko – live at the Chimurenga Factory
By Chimurenga on 24 March 2022 in Arts & Pedagogy, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Live Events, Media & Propaganda, Music, PASS, Systems of Governance
Thursday, 31 March 2022
7pm
CHIMURENGA@20: A Silent Way – Routes of South African Jazz, 1946-1978
By Chimurenga on 22 March 2022 in Arts & Pedagogy, Chimurenga Magazine, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Music
Where to begin? Which silences? There are many.
Liberation Radio: Cape Town – 15-18 March 2022
By Chimurenga on 10 March 2022 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Cash & Commerce, Faith & Ideology, Gaming, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, PASS, Systems of Governance
Live on PASS: 15th-18th March 2022, 3-6pm
You Look Illegal by Paula Ihozo Akugizibwe
By Chimurenga on 4 February 2022 in Chimurenga Library, Healing & bodies, Library Book Series, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
The latest addition to the Chimurenganyana series available now
CHIMURENGANYANA: THE FEAR AND LOATHING OUT OF HARARE BY DAMBUDZO MARECHERA (DEC 2021)
By Chimurenga on 10 December 2021 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chimurenga Library, Healing & bodies, Library Book Series, Media & Propaganda
by Dambudzo Marechera
Available now at our online store.
MEDITATIONS ON JIMI HENDRIX
By Chimurenga on 9 December 2021 in Arts & Pedagogy, Chimurenga Magazine, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies
by Greg Tate
All roads lead to Jimi Hendrix.
THE BROTHER MOVES ON RETURNS
Chimurenga Factory
Saturday, 06 November 2021
Pieces of Dominique
By Chimurenga on 19 October 2021 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Cash & Commerce, Faith & Ideology, Gaming, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
The writings, translations and ideas of our dearly departed friend, comrade and co-conspirator Dominique Malaquais (1964-2021), in Chimurenga
Koltan Kills Kids
By Chimurenga on 19 October 2021 in Cash & Commerce, Chimurenga Magazine, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
By Tsuba Ka 23 (Dominique Malaquais, Mowoso, Kongo Astronauts)
Out of Sight
By Chimurenga on 19 October 2021 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chimurenga Magazine, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies
A short story by Yambo Ouologuem adapted from the French by Dominique Malaquais and Ntone Edjabe.
Festac at 45: Idia Tales – Three Takes and a Mask*
By Chimurenga on 18 October 2021 in Arts & Pedagogy, Cash & Commerce, Chimurenga Library, Healing & bodies, Library Book Series, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
By Dominique Malaquais and Cedric Vincent
Rumblin’
By Chimurenga on 18 October 2021 in Arts & Pedagogy, Chimurenga Magazine, Faith & Ideology, Gaming, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
By Dominique Malaquais
JOKER’S WILD (SLIGHT RETURN)
By Chimurenga on 18 October 2021 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chimurenga Magazine, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies
By Dominique Malaquais
ON THE BRIDGE
By Koffi Kwahulé (translated by Dominique Malaquais)
FRANTZ – A STORY OF BONES
By Chimurenga on 18 October 2021 in Arts & Pedagogy, Chimurenga Magazine, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
By Dominique Malaquais
SEXING AFRICA, AGAIN – POP AS POLITICS: WATCH IT TONIGHT ON HBO
By Chimurenga on 18 October 2021 in Arts & Pedagogy, Cash & Commerce, Chimurenga Magazine, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
By Dominique Malaquais
PAINT THE WHITE HOUSE BLACK – A CALL TO ARMS
By Chimurenga on 18 October 2021 in Arts & Pedagogy, Chimurenga Magazine, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
By Dominique Malaquais
NEW STORIES ABOUT MUSIC IN AFRICA
PASS presents: Salim Washington, Dalisu Ndlazi, Asher Gamedze in conversation
READING FRED HO
Gwen Ansell and Salim Washington celebrate the revolutionary life, language and hard-ass leadership of an unconventional saxophonist, composer and generous collaborator.
WHO WILL SAVE THE SAVIOURS?
By Chimurenga on 11 August 2021 in Cash & Commerce, Chronic, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
A close gaze at the collective apathy that killed Dr. Sebi
From Seven Modes for Hood Science
The black spirit is universally sick with dissimulation and at the same time triumphant in its incessantly performed healing, having turned suffering into a kind of spectacular wellness
“Angazi, but I’m sure”: A Raw Académie Session
By Chronic on 21 July 2021 in Cash & Commerce, Chimurenga Library, Faith & Ideology, Gaming, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
RAW Material Company is a Dakar-based centre for art, knowledge and society; […]
Between the Lines of an Unpatriotic Presidential Pre-Recorded Address
By Chimurenga on 23 June 2021 in Chronic, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
FOURTH REPUBLIC 19 conducts a post-mortem on not-so-presidential minutes in recorded Nigerian history.
SALIM WASHINGTON, DALISU NDLAZI, ASHER GAMEDZE… IN CONVERSATION
Thursday, 24 June 2021 – 6pm
EVEN WHEN MY SOUP-CURLERS SLUR BY GEORGIA ANNE MULDROW – OUT NOW!
By Chimurenga on 17 June 2021 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chimurenga Library, Healing & bodies, Library Book Series
A limited Chimurenganyana edition of Even When My Soup-Curlers Slur, I Still Keep the Take by Georgia Anne Muldrow is now available.
The Enemy in Her Imagination: A Fable
Rahel first met the young, 11-year old boy, on December 21, 2006. That was the day after the war in Somalia was declared.
BLACK SUNLIGHT – A broadcast for Dambudzo Marechera on his 69th
By Chimurenga on 4 June 2021 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, PASS
PANAFEST, hosted by Chimurenga
By Chimurenga on 9 February 2021 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Cash & Commerce, Chimurenga Library, Faith & Ideology, Gaming, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Music, Research
A web documentary, audio-video archive and online cartography, that chronicles continuities and breaks, samples and cuts that link four key moments of Pan-African encounter: Dakar ’66, Algiers ’69, Kinshasa ’74 and Lagos ’77.
On the Digital Application of Ancestral Work
African spirituality as practiced digitally was amplified by COVID-19.
POVERTY IS OLDER THAN OPULENCE
By Chimurenga on 12 January 2021 in Chimurenga Magazine, Gaming, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda
Diego Maradona is the man who exploded the shame of the entire world in June 1986, in an historic dribble during a match between Argentina and England.
QAMATA PULA, an ancestral invocation
By Chimurenga on 26 November 2020 in Arts & Pedagogy, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Live Events, Music, PASS
iPhupho L’ka Biko and Pan African Space Station present QAMATA PULA, an ancestral invocation collapsing past, present and future, over three days at the Chimurenga Factory
Nigeria’s Superstar Men Of God
By Chimurenga on 8 September 2020 in Arts & Pedagogy, Chronic, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Systems of Governance
Who needs the God of the bible with his promises of trials and tribulations, crosses and paths of repentance? Yemisi Aribisala listens to the sermons, counts the money, watches the high-flying life of Nigeria’s mega-preachers and wonders.
THE POETRY OF ABBEY LINCOLN
Live from 5pm
Friday 21 August 2020
panafricanspacestation.org.za
Abbey Lincoln’s Scream: Poetic Improvisation as a Way of Life
By Chimurenga on 18 August 2020 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Music, PASS
We are standing under a glaring spotlight screaming at the tops of our lungs, from the backs of our throats which we grind together to access black blues unwords, thymus against heart, blue in green meridian, that aquamarine plexus that water and sky correct and regulate in us.
TRACKS
By Chimurenga on 29 July 2020 in African Cities Reader, Arts & Pedagogy, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies
MADEYOULOOK collective met with photographer Santu Mofokeng to establish the point of crossroads, where things are in motion and where things remain still
Yellow Fever, Nko?
By Chimurenga on 24 July 2020 in Cash & Commerce, Chronic, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda
Skin bleaching is often described as a manifestation of ‘colo-mentality’. However, argues Bibi Bakare-Yusuf, mimesis here is both an affirmation and a contestation of power.
RIP PAPA GEORGE
By Chimurenga on 2 July 2020 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chimurenga Library, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Music, News
Exile demands contemplation because it is unavoidably real for those who experience […]
They Won’t Go When I Go
By Chimurenga on 29 June 2020 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chronic, Faith & Ideology, Featured, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Music
A Manifesto/ Meditation on State of Black Archives in America and throughout the Diaspora by Harmony Holiday
How Third World Students Liberated the West
By Chimurenga on 23 June 2020 in Archive, Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chronic, Comics, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Music, Systems of Governance
In a twist to mainstream tropes of radical student movements of the 1960s, and their impact on the history of political thought and action, Pedro Monaville argues that the terrains of the Third World, and particularly the history of student movements in Congo, are vital to explore if we are to makes sense of how that period informs the present.
Monumental Failures
By Chimurenga on 19 June 2020 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chronic, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
By Dominique Malaquais
Quel Est L’Endroit Idéal
By Chimurenga on 28 January 2020 in African Cities Reader, Arts & Pedagogy, Cash & Commerce, Healing & bodies
Les Brasseries du Cameroun is the country’s largest industry and dedicated to guaranteeing a steady flow of liquid amber to the vast proliferation of bars, restaurants, nightclubs and other unidentified nightspots – some still in Maquis-style hiding – that have mushroomed all over the city.
Listen to “Sankomota: An Ode in One Album”
On 31 May, we hosted the launch of Phehello Mofokeng‘s reflective essay on Lesotho’s greatest band, Sankomota.
SALUT GLISSANT
By Chimurenga on 30 September 2019 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chronic, Comics, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
“Nothing is true, everything is alive.”
Moses März, imagines a conversation between Edoaurd Glissant and Patrick Chamoiseau about the Philosophy of Relation.
IN MEMORIAM: Binyavanga Wainaina (1971 – 2019)
By Chimurenga on 27 September 2019 in Books & Oration, Cash & Commerce, Chronic, Faith & Ideology, Gaming, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
A friend, a Chimurenga founding father, an award winning writer, author, journalist, chef, lover, a literary revolutionary and an inspiration. We pay tribute.
The Agronomist
Stacy Hardy follows the path of JJ Machobane, the social visionary, writer and agronomist from Lesotho, who challenged orthodox colonial thinking about land and land use.
Who invented truth
By Chimurenga on 27 May 2019 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chimurenga Magazine, Faith & Ideology, Gaming, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda
Tired of truth, I am. And metanarratives and more truth and post colonies.
Where Is This Place
By Chimurenga on 27 May 2019 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chronic, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda
Keguro Macharia asks how might one describe where One Day I Will Write About This Place lives as it travels?
DISCOVERING HOME
By Chimurenga on 26 May 2019 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chimurenga Magazine, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies
by Binyavanga Wainaina(Winner of The Caine Prize 2002) Cape Town – June, […]
The Most Authentic Real Black Africanest Togo Soccer team Story
by Binyavanga Wainaina (photographs by Philippe Niorthe) I meet Alex at breakfast […]
Nothing was impossible for a writer like him
By Chimurenga on 25 May 2019 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chronic, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies
Billy Kahora on Binyavanga Wainaina’s Work
How To Be A Dictator
By Chimurenga on 25 May 2019 in Cash & Commerce, Chronic, Faith & Ideology, Gaming, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
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 Rumba, via the Atlantic passage.
Pass Me the Microphone: Phoebe Boswell
By Chimurenga on 25 May 2019 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, PASS, PASS Pop Up
Stories and sounds from the Swahili coast… sampling Binyavanga Wainaina’s How to Write about Africa.
Neo Muyanga – The Sex For Money No Power Mixtape
By Chimurenga on 9 December 2018 in Arts & Pedagogy, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Music, PASS
PASS founder, a composer and musician Neo Muyanga highlights the currents and […]
The Tyelera Moment
By Chimurenga on 8 December 2018 in Faith & Ideology, Featured, Healing & bodies, Systems of Governance
by Thabo Jijana On December 13, 2016, in Salem Party Club v […]
TO REFUSE THAT WHICH HAS BEEN REFUSED TO YOU
By Chimurenga on 19 October 2018 in Archive, Arts & Pedagogy, Cash & Commerce, Featured, Healing & bodies, Systems of Governance
Fred Moten and Saidiya Hartman sit down to talk about the temporal […]
THINGS THAT GO IN AND OUT OF THE BODY
How can we think about bodies and circulation without deferring to the […]
THINKING TOO MUCH
Silence and dark humour seem like the most authentic way for people […]
PORTRAIT OF MYSELF AS MY FATHER
A CONVERSATION WITH NORA CHIPAUMIRE Born in Mutare, Zimbabwe, and based in New […]
New Trade Routes: Soccer Cities
We make our own maps tracing the new trade routes for the […]
Home is where the music is
Hugh Masekela (talking to Mothobi Mutloatse) I remember we use to live […]
A Brief History of Fufu Pounding
The preparation of fufu is a far from the drudgery and waste of time bemoaned by the World Bank.
Jollof Diaries – A letter from the frontline
By Folakunle Oshun 30 October 2015 It was the first day of […]
How To Cook Your Husband The African Way
Stacy Hardy is a writer and senior editor at Chimurenga. She is […]
No Congo, No Technology
By Chronic on 29 May 2017 in Arts & Pedagogy, Chronic, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
Post-disciplinary artist, Maurice Mbikayi, was born in Kinshasa, in 1974. His country […]
Second Transition
“Second Transition” refers to the phase of liberation struggle in South Africa […]
ALL I CAN SAY FOR NOW
By Jean-Christophe Lanquetin* During the last five years of Unathi Sigenu’s life, […]
Survivor’s Guide to Smelling Naais
In the pre-Apocalypse, Zayaan Khan nurses the Apartheid hangover that carved up […]
Dagga
By Chimurenga on 5 April 2017 in African Cities Reader, Arts & Pedagogy, Healing & bodies, Systems of Governance
Rustum Kozain muses over the cultural and alternative relations built, negotiations and dealings made as a resident of Cape Town.
Bread of Life
Commercial bread contains additives to accelerate production and to improve the look […]
African Cookbooks and Excess Luggage
By Yemisi Aribisala There is a sense of justice and spirit of resignation […]
How to Wear a Kitchen
Yemisi Aribisala ponders the small-minded commentary on the room best kept by […]
STORIES ABOUT MUSIC IN AFRICA – Ingoma Yomzabalazo with Iphupho Lka Biko
By Chimurenga on 28 February 2017 in Arts & Pedagogy, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Live Events, Music, PASS, Video
Recorded live at Chimurenga HQ, Cape Town, in February 2017
Nollywood Kiss
Is kissing a Nigerian habit or merely the preoccupation of neurotic French […]
brinjals
By Cullen Goldblatt A half teaspoonful of cream of tartar to stop […]
Marikana
By Chronic on 20 September 2016 in Archive, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Systems of Governance
On 16 August 2012, the South African Police Service opened fire on […]
Screaming Through the Galaxy
Jamaican-born poet, musician and visual artist Femi Dawkins a.k.a. Jimmy Rage, explores pain […]
Climbing- A Letter from San Francisco
By Nick Hadikwa Mwaluko Loss is life’s only language. Moving from mask to […]
The Papers
In a place — geographically, mentally, physically — where everything is guided […]
The Mission of Forgetting
Joshua Craze offers a sobering analysis of the fantasy that is the […]
The Memory of Victory
Ingrained in the DNA of every male growing up in Senegal is the tradition of Laamb, the Wolof designation for the sport – and by extension the business – of wrestling.
CHIMURENGA@20: SISTER OUTSIDER
By Chimurenga on 5 April 2016 in Chronic, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
Yemisi Aribisala rails against the new fundamentalism cresting the wave of global feminism sweeping Nigeria. She challenges the gender imperialism implicit in its aspiration to uniform ideas of celebrity, power, erudition and beauty.
Curry Chronicles- Dal or Dhal, not Dull
There are many shades of dhal and numerous ways to hull and […]
Adult Alphabet
‘R for rent, S for sex, T for evermore taxing things….’ Rustum Kozain‘s […]
Sexing Africa, Again
Dominique Malaquais spins together Lil’ Kim, burkas, Muslim women, Somali Mata-Haris and […]
Dear Dr. Schwab, Queen of Jordan
By Chronic on 18 November 2015 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Cash & Commerce, Chimurenga Magazine, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda
Binyavanga Wainaina responds to an invitation to participate in Young Global Leaders 2007
Hanging Participle
By Anna Kente I am becoming. I have the proof. Documents, photos, evidence. […]
Creating Theatre: A George Hallett Photo Essay
By Chronic on 30 September 2015 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chimurenga Library, Chronic, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Music
“Exile demands contemplation because it is unavoidably real for those who experience […]
Variations on the Beautiful in the Congolese World of Sounds
By Chronic on 3 September 2015 in Arts & Pedagogy, Chimurenga Magazine, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda
by Achille Mbembe; translated by Dominique Malaquais
The Curry Chronicles, Part 1
Rustum Kozain dishes up some definitives on the many incarnations of curry […]
Boyhood and Transit
Reliving his personal journey to developing a passion for the game, Bongani […]
Queenstown
By Sandile Dikeni The grass in Queenstown was pink in 1996. Or, […]
Lotus Magazine
By Nida Ghouse In the wake of Youssef El-Sebai’s death, the streets of Cairo swelled in protest. […]
Under Nelson Mandela Boulevard
By Chronic on 4 June 2015 in Archive, Cash & Commerce, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
A Story About Cape Town’s Tanzanian Stowaways By Sean Christie Images by David […]
CHIMURENGA@20: SECULAR STORIES
By Chimurenga on 26 May 2015 in Books & Oration, Chronic, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda
Authenticity counts for something; the confidence that authenticity bestows counts for even more.
CHIMURENGA@20: WAITING FOR WAME
By Chimurenga on 26 May 2015 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chronic, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies
I am hungry. Tempted. In pain. I reach for the pack. Pop out another capsule. One minute. Ten minutes. Twenty minutes. The pain has reduced to a dull throbbing. I am floating.
I Think I’ll Call it Morning
by Bongani Kona Penumbra Songeziwe Mahlangu Kwela Books, 2013 Sometime in […]
Black Man in the White Suit
A Letter from Cape Town by Kiluanji Kia Henda. In 2008, the […]
In a Time of Boko Haram
by Elnathan John. I. DRESSES Beneath the oil-stained, flattened pillow that Mansir sits […]
Re-Membering the Name of God
Wendell Hassan Marsh maps the trajectories of Islam as it evolved in […]
The Power of Green Crayons
Agri Ismaïl recalls growing up off the map – his Kurdish identity […]
Secret Countries
This map features in the new Chronic, an edition in which […]
How to Eat a Forest
Billy Kahora recounts a journey into Kenya’s Mau Forest, where he confronts […]
Living Dangerously in Petroluanda
António Tomás picks through the post-independence architectural ruins of Angola’s capital city […]
Neopats and Repats
This map features in the new Chronic, an edition in which […]
Reviews in Brief
by Stacy Hardy. Our Lady of the Nile Scholastique Mukasonga (transl. […]
Portrait of the Artist as a Daughter
by Ed Pavlić. “Where material is absent, dialectics is groundless.” – James Snead, […]
Undoing the Spell
By Chronic on 19 March 2015 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Systems of Governance
by Ben Verghese. Many of the dominant narratives of the partition focus on […]
The Undeveloped Intellectual in Zombie-land
By Chronic on 19 March 2015 in Books & Oration, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda
by Ibrahim Farghali. This is Rakha’s second novel after his début, The Book […]
Breaking the Rules Beautifully
by Bwesigye Bwa Mwesigire. “Breaking the rules attracts implications, Jennifer.” I overhear British […]
The Other Brother
by Bongani Kona. At the centre of Masande Ntshanga’s debut novel, The Reactive, […]
We almost died thrice…
A letter from Lagos by Wanlov the Kubolor. I dey lie for […]
The Bite and the Embrace
A Letter from Malabo by Recaredo Silebo Boturu. I’m writing from here in […]
The Face: Cartography of the Void
Chris Abani has lived in several places and been assumed to be […]
New Trade Routes
This features in the new Chronic, an edition in which […]
After Oil Water
By Chronic on 18 March 2015 in Cash & Commerce, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Maps, Systems of Governance
This features in the new Chronic, an edition in which we […]
African War Machines
By Chronic on 18 March 2015 in Archive, Cash & Commerce, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
This map features in the new Chronic, an edition in which […]
Yambo Ouloguem: Postcolonial Writer, Anti-Wahhabist Militant
Christopher Wise recalls conversations and texts of the Malian author, whose deep […]
In Suburbia
Suburban South Africa is glowing. The sun is up, the trees are […]
Preliminary Notes for a Mediterranean Manifesto
By Chronic on 15 February 2015 in Arts & Pedagogy, Cash & Commerce, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies
Connecting ancience and modern roots/routes Rasheed Araeen redraws the boundaries and limits of identity. […]
Gateway
A video-work from Berni Searle‘s “Black smoke rising” trilogy; the title alluding to the […]
Alex killers are ‘proud’ of attacks on foreigners
Gcina Ntsaluba reports from where Wally Serote wrote: “When I lie on your breast […]
The Story of an African Farm
By Chronic on 8 January 2015 in Arts & Pedagogy, Cash & Commerce, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda
The Chronic visits wine farms across the Boland area of the Western Cape and […]
Kangsen Feka Wakai Can’t Breathe
Transition are calling for responses to the latest sweep of murders by police of unarmed black […]
Midway Between Silence and Speech
The art and incarnation of Justine Gaga explores the multi-layered and emotionally […]
Exitour as Rhizome
“Why did we embark on this insane trip?” Having journeyed together from Douala to […]
Une Hommage à Goddy Leye
By Chronic on 21 November 2014 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, News
With his imagination, sharp wit and all-round uncontournable wholesome beautyness, Goddy Leye has […]
The Beautiful Beast
by Goddy Leye This still from Goddy Leye’s […]
The G.Spot Protagonists
By Chronic on 19 November 2014 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Healing & bodies, Systems of Governance
by Goddy Leye I am sitting in front of the Cologne cathedral, amazed by […]
Black Skin, White Ass
Hydroquinine, bleach, lime juice: take your pick. Each of them will lighten […]
Honouring Somaliness
Binyavanga Wainaina and Diriye Osman sit down in south London to speak of honouring Somaliness, navigating the globe as a homeless writer, freedom and love.
This is a pigment of my imagination
Looking like a ‘Negro’ in India and searching for a connection has […]
XXYX Africa
By Chimurenga on 1 October 2014 in Books & Oration, Chronic, Healing & bodies, Systems of Governance
LGBT Africa held two truths: you fuck, you die.
Out of sight and out of mind in High Care
Mike Abrahams recently spent seven weeks as an involuntary patient at Valkenberg […]
Floyd Mayweather and Improvised Modalities of Rhythm
by Steve Coleman What makes boxing the sweet science is not two […]
The Case of Sipho Mchunu
by Bongani Kona In her brilliant review of Didier Fassin’s book, When Bodies Remember: […]
Why music is better than photography
Why music is better than photography: An argument in two parts by Sean […]
AF 888
AF 888 – a letter from above the Mediterranean Sea by Christian Botale […]
L’impossible n’est pas Camerounais!
Kangsen Feka Wakai traces personal lineage, and the often blurred and disputed […]
CHIMURENGA@20: BEASTS OF NO NATION
Whether immigrating, emigrating or just passing through, Africans suffer among the greatest indignities of cross-border travel, abroad and on the continent. Paula Akugizibwe recounts how the hand-me-down tools of divide and rule perpetuate the abuse.
Visioncarnation
by Orijit Sen Orijit Sen is […]
The Black Guru
Gael Reagon meets the spirit formerly known as Zebulon Dread. On Friday […]
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 […]
It’s only a matter of acceleration now
By Chronic on 1 July 2014 in Books & Oration, Chronic, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Systems of Governance
This is how the earth is arranged, or this is how the kora arranged and made the universe, and songs of numbers and words made souls…. Are you ready to interview Youssou N’Dour?
When You Kill Us, We Rule
By Chronic on 18 June 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 […]
Not only our land but also our souls
Andile Mngxitama challenges historical and contemporary rhetoric that positions land theft in […]
A Brief History of Throwing Shit
By Chronic on 9 May 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 […]
Method After Fela
By Chimurenga on 6 February 2014 in Archive, Arts & Pedagogy, Healing & bodies, Systems of Governance
by Akin Adesokan “You reckon a guy just goes and cuts […]
Woza Moya
Maakomele R. Manaka revisits a soundtrack of his dreams, long and rhythmic […]
CHE IN THE CONGO, ELECTRIC GUITARS AND THE INVENTION OF AFRICA
Featuring solos by Franco Luambo Makiadi, Pepe Felly Manuaku, Bansimba Baroza, Diblo Dibala, Dally Kimoko, Flamme Kapaya, Sarah Solo, Japonais Maladi and Kimbangu Solo; and commentary by Ray Lema