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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
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
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
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
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.
CHIMURENGA@20: GENRES OF HUMAN
By Chimurenga on 19 September 2022 in Arts & Pedagogy, Chronic, Gaming, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
In his book, The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black Technopoetics, Louis Chude-Sokei samples freely from history, music, literature and science, conjuring new meanings from dead texts, to build an echo chamber where the discourses of race and technology collide
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.
CHIMURENGA@20: ONCE THERE WERE HUMANS
By Chimurenga on 18 July 2022 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chimurenga Magazine, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
In the hills above Kingston, Jamaica Annie Paul unpacks some baggage in a rare interview with Peter Abrahams, the South African-born writer and ardent Pan-Africanist.
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.”
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
LIBERATION RADIO: PUNGWE 1
By Chimurenga on 19 April 2022 in Arts & Pedagogy, Media & Propaganda, Music, PASS, Systems of Governance
Selected and mixed by Robert Machiri
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
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
CHIMURENGA@20: Talkin’ ‘bout Survival – The Repatriation of Reggae
By Chimurenga on 3 March 2022 in Arts & Pedagogy, Chimurenga Magazine, Media & Propaganda, Music, Systems of Governance
Where Apartheid and broadcasters divided South Africans culturally, here comes bongo natty dread to motivate U-N-I-T-Y.
The Africans, A Radio Play in Three Acts
By Chimurenga on 7 February 2022 in Faith & Ideology, Media & Propaganda, PASS, Systems of Governance
Worldwide premiere live on PASS – 09-11 February 2022
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
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)
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
That Thing We Dreamed
By Chimurenga on 18 October 2021 in Arts & Pedagogy, Chimurenga Magazine, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
By Dominique Malaquais
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
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
Blood Money – A Douala Chronicle
By Chimurenga on 18 October 2021 in Arts & Pedagogy, Chimurenga Magazine, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
By Dominique Malaquais
LINDELA (The Winnie Suite)
By Dominique Malaquais
The Franc-maçonnerie Suite
by Henri Kala-Lobe and 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
Franc-maçonnerie Suite
Uncle Tom or DOM-TOM?
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
THIRD TRANSITION
By Chimurenga on 27 July 2021 in Cash & Commerce, Chronic, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
Shoks Mzolo and Bongani Kona trace the path of South Africa’s transformation from a criminal apartheid state to a criminal neoliberal state
“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.
RADIO MAC ON PASS – 14-21 June
By Chimurenga on 11 June 2021 in Arts & Pedagogy, Chimurenga Library, Media & Propaganda, PASS, Research, Systems of Governance
Chimurenga and Hangar (Lisbon) present Radio MAC live on PASS 14-21 June 2021, 6pm.
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.
Remember Glissant
By Chimurenga on 12 April 2021 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chronic, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
Moses März writes of Édouard Glissant, Martinican, poet and compatriot of the more celebrated Aimé Césaire and Frantz Fanon
CHIMURENGA CHRONIC – IMAGI-NATION NWAR – OUT NOW!
By Chimurenga on 24 March 2021 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Cash & Commerce, Chronic, Maps, Media & Propaganda, Music, Systems of Governance
A new issue of Chimurenga’s Chronic – out now. imagi-nation nwar – […]
“The Oppressor Remains What He Is”
By Chimurenga on 11 January 2021 in Books & Oration, Chimurenga Library, Library Book Series, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
Why does it seem that the genocide deniers have perked up? What […]
Your Own Hand Sold You: Voluntary servitude in the Francafrique
By Chronic on 28 December 2020 in Cash & Commerce, Chronic, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
In the CFA franc, the French colonial mission in West Africa found a way to ensure a paternalist and pernicious stranglehold on the economies of a vast region of the continent.
THIRD CLASS CITY
South Africa thinks that India owes it one for putting Gandhi through revolution school; India thinks South Africa owes it for sending him over to show the natives how it’s done.
Ibadan, Soutin and the Puzzle of Bower’s Tower
By Chimurenga on 15 September 2020 in Cash & Commerce, Chimurenga Magazine, Gaming, Systems of Governance
The jingle would survive the event, as the poetry of a battle-cry outlives a war, but that eventuality belonged in the future.
Where Terror Lies
By Chimurenga on 15 September 2020 in Chronic, Faith & Ideology, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
The rhetoric of ‘radical’ and ‘fundamentalist’ Islam, of ‘global jihad’ and ‘terror’ is, ironically, historical and recoverable from the irrational.
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 Meaning of Being Numerous
The man who sets up the bomb is long gone before it goes off.
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
Urbanism Beyond Architecture – African Cities as Infrastructure
By Chimurenga on 29 January 2020 in African Cities Reader, Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Cash & Commerce, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
Vyjayanthi Rao, in conversation with Filip de Boeck & Abdou Maliq Simone […]
Remembering Biafra
In 1968, Nigeria’s finance minister, agricultural produce mogul Obafemi Awolowo declared: “Starvation is a legitimate weapon of war, and we have every intention to use it against the rebels.”
Wrestling With A Warlord
Louis Chude-Sokei narrates a story of Nigeria, of splintered identity, of exile, and of the Biafran War and its godfather – his godfather – General Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu
HOW THE WEST WAS LOST
If one thinks about it the whole thing goes back to amaQheya; the cultural proletariat… a proletariat with a cultural history that has taught it to be careful of an African existence…
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.
Frantz Fanon’s Uneven Ribs
By Chimurenga on 7 September 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.
Search Sweet Country
By Chimurenga on 25 August 2019 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Cash & Commerce, Chronic, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
In conversation with Binyavanga Wainaina, Kojo Laing talks to a future Ghana by exposing its present, full of the jargons and certainties of one dimensional nation building.
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.
The Pharaoh’s New Clothes
Its location, vocation, and publication intended to speak to a politicised Third World imaginary.
Who Killed Kabila
By Chimurenga on 17 July 2019 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Cash & Commerce, Chimurenga Library, Faith & Ideology, Library Book Series, Media & Propaganda, Research, Systems of Governance
On January 16, 2001, in the middle of the day, shots are […]
New Cartographies
By Chimurenga on 17 July 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: […]
A Day in the Life of Idi Amin
The hot dry breeze is lazy. It glides languorously collecting odd bits of paper, they tease the ground, threaten to take flight, tease the ground.
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
WHAT AFRICAN WRITERS CAN LEARN FROM CHEIKH ANTA DIOP
By Chimurenga on 23 April 2019 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chronic, Faith & Ideology, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
In a testament to Cheikh Anta Diop, Boubacar Boris Diop raises radical views on creative writing, a challenge to what he laments as our literary Sahara.
PASS is going to Australia!
By Chimurenga on 6 March 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 […]
BLACKOUT x 7 Octobre
Native Maqari and Keziah Jones Villa Medici channel Fela take on on […]
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 […]
La République et sa Bête : à propos des émeutes dans les banlieues de France
par Achille Mbembe La France est un vieux pays fier de ses […]
Lindela (the winnie suite)
an excerpt from ‘Lindela (the winnie suite)’ by Dominique Malaquais car, maps, […]
Dislocations in the Congolese World of Sound
“Dislocation” is how Congolese rumba historians describe the incessant splinterings that are […]
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 […]
The “Walking Corpse”
Thousands of Africans, physically displaced and economically disabled by postcolonial dis-order, confront […]
EVERY JOURNEY IS A READING
By Stacy Hardy My cover is easy. There are a million roles […]
FROM ORLANDO TO ORLANDO
By Roberto Alajmo Background: The ship Mendelsshon—referring to an NGO, and having […]
THE MARTYRDOM OF MAYOR ORLANDO
by Moses Marz Elected four times as mayor of Palermo over a period […]
THINGS THAT GO IN AND OUT OF THE BODY
How can we think about bodies and circulation without deferring to the […]
TO REFUSE THAT WHICH HAS BEEN REFUSED TO YOU
Fred Moten and Saidiya Hartman sit down to talk about the temporal […]
THE IDEA OF A BORDERLESS WORLD
The capacity to decide who can move, who can settle, where and […]
HOLIDAY PLANNING WITH HEI VOETSEK!
By Chimurenga on 20 September 2018 in Arts & Pedagogy, Featured, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
And now for an important travel advisory. Planning to visit Johannesburg or […]
Black Images – An Essay by Peter James Hudson
July 2008 The premiere issue of Black Images: A Critical Quarterly of Black […]
PORTRAITS OF POWER
Farai Mudzingwa writes about the power vested within the four corners of the presidential portrait, and the struggle not only to dislodge the presidential image, but also to claim it, to frame it anew.
OF TOTEMS, HISTORY AND POLITICS
In Shona cosmology, people are understood to be more than the sum […]
The Invention of Zimbabwe – New edition of Chimurenga’s Chronic available now!
By Chimurenga on 11 April 2018 in Cash & Commerce, Faith & Ideology, Media & Propaganda, News, Systems of Governance
14 November 2017. News breaks of a coup d’état underway in Zimbabwe. […]
The Making of the Impossible
Review by GWEN ANSELL October: The story of the Russian revolution China […]
THE BLACK BOMB
Mamadou Diallo channels Carlos Moore, the exiled Cuban who traversed most of […]
SUNGURA STORIES
Ranga Mberi travels back in musical time to the 1980s and 1990s, […]
NONE BUT OURSELVES
By Chimurenga on 9 April 2018 in Arts & Pedagogy, Faith & Ideology, Featured, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
The history of reggae in Zimbabwe echoes far beyond Bob Marley’s historic […]
NATIONAL HEROES ACRE II & III
National Heroes Acre II Photographs by Jekesai Njikizanava National Heroes Acre II […]
THE WAY I SEE IT – National Heroes Acre I
Bongani Kona Who or what haunts you? Do recurrences draw you back […]
MURIMI MUNHU
Panashe Chigumadzi travels to the rural Zimbabwe of her ancestors, onto land […]
MILKING A DYING COW
Zimbabwe’s economic crises have played out in the press, in political and […]
‘GO TO THE LIMITS OF KNOWLEDGE!’ MURIDISM IN THE LIFE OF CHEIKH ANTA DIOP
While French colonialism was at its zenith, the first quarter of the […]
BAHUJANAFRIQUE – A PLAUSIBLE FUTURE
By Chimurenga on 9 April 2018 in Arts & Pedagogy, Faith & Ideology, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
Sumesh Sharma traces the circuitous roots of Afro-Asiatic history, from the world’s […]
ARMY ARRANGEMENT
News of President Robert Gabriel Mugabe’s imminent ouster from office continues to […]
A BRIEF HISTORY OF CHIMURENGA AS A COMMUNAL LABORATORY
by Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga Since the 1970s, Zimbabweans have used the term […]
Poverty is Older than Opulence
By Chimurenga on 23 January 2018 in Faith & Ideology, Gaming, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
Maverick Serbian filmmaker, Emir Kusturica (Time of the Gypsies; Underground), talks with […]
New Trade Routes: Soccer Cities
We make our own maps tracing the new trade routes for the […]
Zinedine Zidane and and the event of the secret
By Chimurenga on 23 January 2018 in Arts & Pedagogy, Chimurenga Magazine, Faith & Ideology, Gaming, Systems of Governance
Grant Farred produces a Derridean reading of Zidane’s world-stopping head butt.
To Defend and to Question
By Chimurenga on 23 January 2018 in Archive, Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Gaming, Systems of Governance
Zinedine Zidane has described him as “the greatest footballer of all” and […]
A master of bling with feline style
Writing just after the 2011 Africa Cup of Nations, Achille Mbembe* looks […]
Who Killed Kabila?
The Pan African Space Station/Chimurenga Library at La Colonie, Paris 13 December […]
Meeting Marti, Neruda and Langa in the streets…
Amabhulu amnyama andenzel’ i-worry, Amabhulu amanyama andenzel’ i-worry andenzel’ indlala (White-blacks are […]
Last Words to the Nation by Salvador Allende
This speech was delivered at 9:10 am on September 11, 1973, in […]
Dictionary of SA Elections 2014
by Willem Boshoff Aa albocracy Government by “white” men or Europeans. The […]
Some African Cultural Concepts By Steve Biko
By Chimurenga on 11 September 2017 in Archive, Arts & Pedagogy, Faith & Ideology, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
This is a paper given by Steve at a conference called […]
The Definition Of Black Consciousness by Bantu Stephen Biko
It seeks to infuse the black community with a new-found pride in themselves, their efforts, their value systems, their culture, their religion and their outlook to life.
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.
The Sahara Is Not A Boundary
Stacy Hardy is a writer and senior editor at Chimurenga. She is […]
A Letter from a Homeless Prodigal
Emeka Ugwu is a Data Analyst who lives in Lagos, Nigeria. He […]
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 […]
In Bond We Trust?
Nearly a decade on from the worst postcolonial turmoil that saw their currency devalued by thousands of percentage points, Zimbabweans have had to brace themselves as the government introduced another face-saving tender.
Dear President Museveni
By Chronic on 27 April 2017 in Archive, Arts & Pedagogy, Cash & Commerce, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
By Isaac Otidi Amuke I have debated about writing this for days, in […]
Radical Rudeness
By Paula Akugizibwe In Seeing, Jose Saramago’s novel about the death of […]
Grandmothers Teaching: A view from South Africa
The proliferation of MA in Creative Writing programmes at universities raises questions […]
Between: The state and Bhut’ Joe, the frequency and the future
An exchange between Julie Nxadi and Asher Gamedze unravels the state of order, disorder and disarray in the realm of the militarised, polarised institutions otherwise known as South African universities
CHIMURENGA@20: NO ONE WILL SAVE YOU – REMEMBERING KENYA’S KARL MARX
By Chimurenga on 18 April 2017 in Arts & Pedagogy, Cash & Commerce, Chronic, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
Student movements in many African countries have historically confronted contradictions of colonial and post-colonial rule. In Kenya, these movements sent generations of young people into the streets, underground, into exile or death.
Pan African Activism Meets Mamdanisation
By Chronic on 11 April 2017 in Archive, Arts & Pedagogy, Cash & Commerce, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
Theory and practice have been butting heads at Makerere University’s Institute of […]
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 […]
brinjals
By Cullen Goldblatt A half teaspoonful of cream of tartar to stop […]
POLITRICKS IN THE STADIUM
Melanie Boehi discusses how, for politicians, sports tournaments such as the upcoming […]
FOOTBALL CANNOT GO FASTER THAN POLITICS
Athletes are not immune to their political surroundings and football, in particular, […]
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 […]
Debt and Study
Against the proliferation of capitalist logistics, governance by credit and the management […]
Qalqalah
Through the fictional character Qalqalah, Sarah Rifky, grapples with the question what is an institution? Speaking […]
The University of Soweto
Frank B. Wilderson draws from his memory of student protests in 1993 […]
The Mission of Forgetting
Joshua Craze offers a sobering analysis of the fantasy that is the […]
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.
Reform and Revolution at the University of Lovanium
In this essay on the gestation, articulations and manipulations of student politics […]
Marcus Garvey is Alive in East Africa
A university in eastern Uganda, named in honour of the pan African […]
How to Approach Heaven
The struggle for freedom is a reckless, foolish and sacrosanct adventure – […]
Four Days in June
By Moses Marz President Omar al-Bashir is looking out of the window of […]
Focusing the Fashionable Mind
The parochialism and pretence emanating from some South African human rights organisations […]
Come On Up, Sweetheart
In an “intensely private encounter” with the personal letters of James Baldwin, […]
A Brief History of Student Protests
By Stacy Hardy “Bile bums my inside!/ I feel like vomiting! For […]
Hanging Participle
By Anna Kente I am becoming. I have the proof. Documents, photos, evidence. […]
Justino
By Pedro Rosa-Mendes The news spread through the camp: Justino knew then […]
The Amazing Career of Passport Number B957848
By Akin Adesokan (For Larry Siems & Aimee Liu) I The wait […]
Valladolid is not Spain, but it is
By Peter James Hudson They say that Valladolid was the only town […]
Close encounters at the Florida 1000
Tony Mochama goes galactic for a little bump and grind, gives a […]
A Political Economy of Noise
Kangsen Feka Wakai traces the uncharacteristic journey through a “noisy era” of […]
Q&A with Mehari Taddele Maru
By Paula Akugizibwe and Mehari Maru Mehari Maru is an Addis Ababa-based […]
Interview with Raila Odinga
The Chronic interviewed Raila Amollo Odinga at his Karen residence on the […]
Dear Chimurenga- The India-Pakistan Division
By Jon Soske The United Nation’s release of the agreement stipulating the […]
Archie Shepp’s Shirt Suggests
By Dominique Malaquais and Cédric Vincent
A Brief History of Monuments
By Stacy Hardy Abbasid Caliph Abu Ja’far al-Mansur, the founder of the ancient city of […]
Season’s Greetings
By Rayyane Tabet On the morning of 1 December 1960, thousands of […]
The African Affairs Bureau
By Helmi Sharawy I have pointed out in the past that the three […]
Rumble in the Nile
The Nimeiri era remains one of the most beguiling and contradictory in the country’s history. It defined so much of what was to come.
El-Salahi – The Wise Enemy
By Hassan Musa I want to introduce Ibrahim El-Salahi here as “our […]
Islam between Françafrique and Afrabia
By Chimurenga on 10 June 2015 in Chronic, Faith & Ideology, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
Needless to say, Françafrique was not the only constellation of capital and culture on offer at the time of African political independence.
Lotus Magazine
By Nida Ghouse In the wake of Youssef El-Sebai’s death, the streets of Cairo swelled in protest. […]
Trajectories of the Sudanese Gulf
By Michael Vasquez Hiwar The journal that the Congress for Cultural Freedom […]
Nasser and the African Revolution
Politically and socially Egypt is said to occupy three spaces as mentioned […]
Qibla
Qibla leader Imam Achmad Cassiem in conversation with Khalid Shamis. “When the […]
Jihad as a Form of Struggle in the Resistance to Apartheid in South Africa
By Na’eem Jeenah Although Muslims form about 2 per cent of the South […]
Dispossessed Vigils
Mourning and Regeneration in Inner-City Johannesburg[1] By Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon “Only the conscious horror […]
City Building in Post-Conflict, Post-Socialist Luanda
Burying the Past with Phantasmagorias of the Future By Anne Pitcher […]
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: RELUCTANTLY LOUD
By Chimurenga on 4 June 2015 in African Cities Reader, Cash & Commerce, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
Cape Town is a city with a waiting list of more than 450,000 families for low-cost housing, but delivering about 11,000 units a year and criminalising those who attempt to put up their own structures.
“We need more contact zones to create a space for critical discussion, and to propagate and exchange a continuous cultural benefit.”
A conversation between Professor Muyiwa Falaiye and Mudi Yahaya Muyiwa Falaiye: I […]
“The contemporary art in this country is flowing, but it needs direction.”
A conversation between performance artist, Jelili Atiku and former Director of the […]
The Death Metaphor
By Jahman Anikulapo A sudden burst of confusion overwhelmed the belly of the […]
Visions for the National Tear-ter of Nigeria
Four Conversations and Seven Performative Pamphlets Seven Performative Pamphlets: Ayodele Arigbabu, Hunter […]
This Sea Shall Be Uprooted
By Jumoke Verissimo Images by Adolphus Opara On the silk expanse […]
High Class Shanty Town
By Jean-Christophe Lanquetin *translated by Karen Press In Ouakam, on […]
Urban Sahara from the Sky
How Capitalism Fixes the Dunes. by Marion Broquère, Armelle Choplin, Simon Nancy Images […]
IRM de la ville de Douala
by Maud De La Chappelle To Didier À Douala, on nomme les […]
Mapping The Last King of Africa
By Chronic on 19 March 2015 in Cash & Commerce, Faith & Ideology, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
This map features alongside a text by Olivier Vallée in the new […]
In a Time of Boko Haram
by Elnathan John. I. DRESSES Beneath the oil-stained, flattened pillow that Mansir sits […]
Bordering on Borana
by Dalle Ebrahim. It was 2011 and I was seated in a taxi […]
The Power of Green Crayons
Agri Ismaïl recalls growing up off the map – his Kurdish identity […]
Pwani Si Kenya
Despite years of development promises from Kenya’s central government, the Coast remains […]
The Last King of Africa
Brother Leader, global agitator, anti-imperialist revolutionary, megalomaniacal renegade. The former Libyan leader […]
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 […]
The Institute
Cultural institutes are considered effective instruments in foreign policy for any nation-state […]
Soft Power Desire Machines and the Production of Africa Rising
By Chronic on 19 March 2015 in Arts & Pedagogy, Cash & Commerce, Faith & Ideology, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
Alongside texts by Jesse Weaver Shipley, Moses März and Oribhabor […]
Pan Africanism in Katanga
In the margins of a specific history, in which land and inhabitants […]
All That is Solid Melts into PR
By Chronic on 19 March 2015 in Books & Oration, Chronic, Faith & Ideology, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
Mark Fisher speaks to Bongani Kona about the social, economic and cultural totality of late capitalism, the pervasive cynicism in which we seem to be mired, the omnipresence of PR and the possibility of countering it all by re-igniting a belief in the public good.
Operation Protective Edge
By Chronic on 19 March 2015 in Books & Oration, Faith & Ideology, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
by Paul Wessels. The Goldstone Report: The Legacy of the Landmark Investigation of […]
Licking Dirty Hands
by David Shook. In the tradition of German poet Heimrad Bäcker, who turned […]
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 […]
Men and their Dogs
by Gwen Ansell. Leonardo Padura is perhaps best known outside his native Cuba […]
Miniature Metamorphoses
by André Naffis-Sahely. In his dotage, Henry Kissinger has come to resemble Emperor […]
Shooting From Point Blank Range
By Chronic on 19 March 2015 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
Moses Serubiri turns on the television and watches the news unfold, in […]
Beneath the Underdog
Fighter, soldier, poet, arguably the PR-unit and embodiment of the Economic Freedom […]
Life After Oil
Jeremy Weate explores the cultural politics of the petro-based economy in Nigeria, […]
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 […]
A Brief History of Mapping
by Stacy Hardy. In 1921, the independent Polish scholar Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski […]
The Internet is Afropolitan
Achille Mbembe discusses the history and horizon of digital communication and identity […]
Yambo Ouloguem: Postcolonial Writer, Anti-Wahhabist Militant
Christopher Wise recalls conversations and texts of the Malian author, whose deep […]
How Close Are You To This Place?
by Karen Press. Where is the heart of darkness? We think we know. It’s […]
The Chronic – mapping the new – soon come
“In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the […]
What Follows? The State of Black Collectivity in the Year of the Sheep
By Chronic on 20 January 2015 in Archive, Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Faith & Ideology, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
Continuing to sing a vital and urgent message of black collectivity, Harmony Holiday writes from […]