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FESTAC ’77, a mixtape by Chimurenga
In this mix, we decompose, an-arrange and reproduce the sound-world of FESTAC ’77 to address the planetary scale of event, alongside the personal and artistic encounters it made possible.
Yellow Fever, Nko?
By chimurenga on July 24, 2020 in Cash & Commerce, Chimurenga Magazine, 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 July 2, 2020 in Archive, Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chimurenga Library, Chimurenga Magazine, Chronic, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Music, PASS
Exile demands contemplation because it is unavoidably real for those who experience […]
They Won’t Go When I Go
By chimurenga on June 29, 2020 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chimurenga Library, Faith & Ideology, Featured, Healing & bodies, Library Book Series, Media & Propaganda, Music, PASS, Video
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 June 23, 2020 in Archive, Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chimurenga Library, Chronic, Comics, Healing & bodies, Library Book Series, 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 June 19, 2020 in African Cities Reader, Archive, Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chimurenga Library, Chronic, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Library Book Series, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
Dominique Malaquais reports from Cameroon on the active objection of one ‘Combattant’ to the negation of many, cast in stone. Decrying these monumental symbols to the least salubrious of colonial exploits, his rebellion is most fitting in a country that stands on ceremony other than its own.
Reproducing Festac ’77: A secret among a family of millions
By chimurenga on May 29, 2020 in Archive, Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chimurenga Library, Library Book Series, Media & Propaganda, News
Kwanele Sosibo speaks with Ntone Edjabe about the creation of, and thinking behind, the FESTAC ’77 publication.
Steal Back the Treasure
In pirating the head of Queen Idia to use it as a logo for Festac 77 , proposes another dissonant route that challenges the very idea of the work of art as unique object.
LEPHEPHE PRINT GATHERINGS 5 – CAPE TOWN
By chimurenga on February 19, 2020 in Archive, Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Media & Propaganda, News
Calling all printmakers and paper-peoples! In collaboration with our comrades at Keleketla! […]
Who Kill Kabila – Angola Mix
We tune into radio trottoir, radio one battery, radio 33, boca boca to get the word on the street from Angola.
Frantz Fanon’s Uneven Ribs
By Chronic on September 7, 2019 in Books & Oration, Featured, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
For me knowledge is very powerful. Any knowledge has claws and teeth. If you don’t see the teeth and the claws then it is useless, then somebody has emasculated it.
“We should take out that word ‘national’ and reconstruct that word ‘theatre’….
By Chronic on August 1, 2019 in Arts & Pedagogy, Cash & Commerce, Chimurenga Library, Media & Propaganda
Perfect, perfect, you have solved the problem for me, we have deconstructed the idea of National Theatre. We have taken the national and thrown it in the dust bin.
New Cartographies
By Chronic on July 17, 2019 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chimurenga Library, Chronic, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
Since its launch in 2011, every edition of The Chronic has engaged with this question: […]
PASS is going to Australia!
By Chronic on March 6, 2019 in Archive, Arts & Pedagogy, Chimurenga Library, Media & Propaganda, PASS, Systems of Governance
From 11 -13 April, as part of an exhibition hosted by Monash […]
Neo Muyanga – The Sex For Money No Power Mixtape
By Chronic on December 9, 2018 in Arts & Pedagogy, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Music, PASS
PASS founder, a composer and musician Neo Muyanga highlights the currents and […]
Genres of the Human
In his new book, The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black […]
Festac ’77 – a faction by Akin Adesokan
By Chronic on December 9, 2018 in Arts & Pedagogy, Chimurenga Library, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
Was Festac 77 curated by Esu Elegba? Akin Adesokan’s faction explores art […]
Lindela (the winnie suite)
an excerpt from ‘Lindela (the winnie suite)’ by Dominique Malaquais car, maps, […]
The “Walking Corpse”
Thousands of Africans, physically displaced and economically disabled by postcolonial dis-order, confront […]