How can we think about bodies and circulation without deferring to the […]
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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 Chronic on September 20, 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
The president’s portrait holds a venerable position in post-independence Zimbabwe. Not unlike […]
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 Chronic on April 11, 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 Chronic on April 9, 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 Chronic on April 9, 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 […]