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Category: Arts & Pedagogy

this month at CHIMURENGA FACTORY

Don't miss out this November, stay up-to-date with the latest

Johannesburg

Vocabularies of the Visceral and Expressions of Multiple Practices, Jyoti

Madala Kunene and Sibusile Xaba – KwaNTU LIVE

BAFO & XABA LIVE Friday 14 November 2025 from 7pm

DRYLONGSO Film Screening

Wednesday, 12 November 2025, 7pm

POEMS AGAINST GENOCIDE

An evening of poetry, Friday 7 November from 7pm

PRINTING POLITICAL CONSTELLATIONS – The Funambulist a conversation with Leopold Lambert, founder and editor of the Funambulist

Thursday, 16 October from 7pm

ETUK UBONG – LIVE at Jam House (Birmingham, UK)

Tuesday 7 Oct from 8pm(SAST) tune in live via the

LISTEN: ZAMROCK EXPRESS

A four-part documentary series on the liberatory sound of Zambia

REZA KHOTA QUARTET: RESILIENCE TOUR

Live at Chimurenga Factory, Friday 12 September from 7pm

CHIMU TAPESTRIES – A NINEVITES COLLAB

A limited-edition series of handwoven wool tapestries designed by Chimurenga,

NCESH NONXISHI LIVE – The Apho Kungenje Tour

Thursday, 28 Aug from 7pm at Chimurenga Factory, 157 Victoria

THE FASTEST TITLER IN AMERICA

Stella Vincenot reviews Dany Laferrière's Je suis un écrivain japonais

CLOSER THAN THIS

extracts from an open source book for urban planners by

A DREAMSCAPE OF ASTONISHMENT

Rustum Kozain review’s Jose Eduardo Agualusa’s 'My Father's Wives'

Threatening the Hormonal Stability of Imbeciles

Stacy Hardy interviews author of 'Senselessness' Horacio Castellanos Moya

Senselessness

Stacy Hardy reviews the English translation of Horacio Castellanos Moya‘s

REIMAGINING THE SCRIPT – Saki Mafundikwa

“Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with

UMCIMBI_LATE

Friday 11 July at The Library of Things We Forgot

LOUIS TEBOGO MOHOLO (1940-2025)

CHIMURENGANYANA: FOREST NOTEBOOKS – MARIO LEWIS

First of ‘Black Echologies’, a series of practice-based notebooks produced

Bajove Dokotela

Let the good Dr [Philip Tabane] inject you in three

LISTEN: SOCIAL BREATH – Asher Gamedze and THE BLACK LUNGS

In commemoration of the fighting spirit of 16 June ’76,

THIS WAY I SALUTE YOU – a gathering for Keorapetse Kgositsile

The launch of two long-awaited books on our dearly departed

The University of Soweto

Frank B. Wilderson draws from his memory of student protests

On Mermaids and Microwaves

What if you don’t want a microwave meal? What if

Traditional Intellectuals

Izithunywa Zohlanga use indigenous repertoire and idioms to produce music

Sungura Stories

Ranga Mberi travels back in musical time to the 1980s

Together in the Picture

John Peffer scans the photographic styles that image a black

The Way I See It: We Need New Myths

Perhaps the use of alternative points of emphasis is an

Penpoints, Gunpoints, and Dreams:
A history of creative writing instruction in East Africa

From the earnest hustle of our elders in writing during

The Picture

In those moments all that noise seems to come together

THIS THING CALLED SOUL MUSIC

…There is nothing like art – in the oppressor’s sense

IZIMPABANGA ZOMHLABA – Ukulalela ukufundwa kwesiqephu noNombuso Mathibela

Thursday 22 August 2024, 6pm Chimurenga Factory www.panafricanspacestation.org.za

SANKOFA – A Conversation and Listening Session with King Tha

Monday 22 July, from 6pm. Tune in at www.panafricanspacestation.org.za

The New Thing

The Chimurenganyana Boxset volume 1, a handmade collection of rhythmic

KÀDDU- THE ECHO OF DISSONANT DISCOURSE

More than a mere editorial committee, Kàddu was a research,

NEW RELEASE! Four Stories About Music in Africa, Volume 1

a limited edition handmade box set featuring four publications from

Festac: Idia Tales – Three Takes and a Mask*

By Dominique Malaquais and Cedric Vincent

Somewhere between a scream and a lullaby

In a city where the boundaries between life and death

Did You Kiss the Dead Body?

The act of creation is one that cannot be quantified,

LAUNCHING THE BREATHERS – THE LATEST IN THE CHIMURENGANYANA SERIES

We are pleased to be launching the latest addition to

Chimurenganyana: The Breathers, A Collaborative Long Poem By Daniel Borzutzky And Stacy Hardy (May 2024)

The Breathers is an attempt to experiment with ways to

The Breathers, a collaborative long poem by Daniel Borzutzky and Stacy Hardy

Latest Chimurenganyana Now Available in Stores!

LISTEN: ‘WAR CHORALE’ BY BHEKI KHOZA

‘War Chorale’, composed and directed by Bheki Khoza is a

BHEKI KHOZA TRIO

We are pleased to host veteran guitarist, composer and mbaqanga

Woza Moya

Maakomele R. Manaka revisits a soundtrack of his dreams, long

Heliacal Rising of Sothis – a celebration of Kelan Phil Cohran

Chimurenga proudly presents "Heliacal Rising of Sothis", a celebration of

Mining Sounds: Lagos – Cairo

Emeka Ogboh's art works require audiences to hone their listening

Preliminary Notes for a Mediterranean Manifesto

Connecting ancience and modern roots/routes Rasheed Araeen redraws the boundaries

AFRICAN DAY – a listening session with Tete Mbambisa

Wednesday, 27 March 2024 from 7pm Chimurenga Factory

Calabash Afrobeat Poems

Dike Okoro interviews Ikwunga Wonodi

SESASEDI SA TSODIO / SA KOŠA KE LEROLE: a screening of two film-essays

a screening of two-film essays Friday, 15 March 2024 from

MoRa: Mogorosi meets Rampolokeng with ensemble live recording

22 March 2024 6pm Chiesa Dipazzo Lupi, Melville

EXHIBITORS AND PARTICIPANTS

Ubuhle Bendalo Community Arts Festival plays host to the following

Ubuhle Bendalo Community Arts Festival

16-18 February 2024 10am-10pm daily Chimurenga Factory

UBUHLE BENDALO

16 - 18 February 2024 Chimurenga Factory

A Phyllis Hyman Selection, 1976-1982

by Pierre Crépon

The Forest and the Zoo

Johnny Dyani offers a method to the Skanga (black music

A LIVE BROADCAST WITH DAMOLA OLOWADE

Friday, 24 November 7pm Tune in at panafricanspacestation.org.za

HOPHUIS: A SITE OF DANCE AND SOLIDARITY

Thursday, 09 November 2023 from 6pm. Chimurenga Factory

Never, ever let any monster abuse your science!

Renfrew Christie's Speech to the Science Graduation Ceremony of the

LAUNCHING MINE MINE MINE

Chimurenga Factory Thu, 12 Oct 2023 from 6pm

LIBERATION RADIO: MEDU ARTS ENSEMBLE

The music unit of Medu Arts Ensemble consisted of two

LIBERATION RADIO: BOKANI DYER’S RADIO SECHABA

Chimurenga Factory 30 September 7pm

Chimurenganyana: The Garden Letters of Yvonne Vera by Tadiwa Madenga (Sep 2023)

In this monograph, Tadiwa Madenga travels to Bulawayo to retrace

LATEST CHIMURENGANYANA OUT NOW!

THE GARDEN LETTERS OF YVONNE VERA by Tadiwa Madenga

EPISTROPHIES

Saturday, 16 September 2023 from 6pm Chimurenga Factory (157 Victoria

Melodious Thunk

Everyone in the neighbourhood knew him. Walking to the shops,

CHIMURENGANYANA: MUSIC NOTEBOOK OUT NOW!

MUSIC NOTEBOOK by Ari Sitas

Chimurenganyana: Music Notebook by Ari Sitas (Aug 2023)

Music Notebook is at once a scrapbook, a bildungsroman, a

CLASS STRUGGLE IN MUSIC

Chimurenga Factory - 157 Victoria Rd, Woodstock Thursday, 17 August

Notes for an Oratorio on small things that fall

Aditi Hunma reviews the launch of Notes for an Oratorio

You Ain’t Gonna Know Me ‘Cos You Think You Know Me

a gathering 'n broadcast for our dearly departed brother Malesela

AZANIA EP LISTENING SESSION

Chimurenga Factory - Fri, 07 July 2023 from 6pm

CHIMURENGA PRESENTS SOCIAL BREATH

a collective improvisation 16 June 2023

Chimurenganyana: La Discotheque De Sarah Maldoror (March 2023)

decomposed, an-arranged and reproduced by Ntone Edjabe

LATEST IN STORE: WHEN THREE SEVENS CLASH

A collection of writing and images on Zimbabwe, edited by

Costa Diagne et Les Hommes de la danse

par Gabrielle Chomentowski

LATEST IN STORE: CHANTS, DREAMS AND OTHER GRAMMARS OF LOVE

a gedenkschrift for Harry Garuba

CONFESSIONS OF A CLOSET SOYINKA PLAGIARIST

A letter from Ibadan by Harry Garuba

REVIEW: AND THE BOOKS LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER

Harry Garuba reviews reissues of Amos Tutuola's writings

La Discothèque de Sarah Maldoror (tracklisting)

decomposed, an-arranged, and reproduced by Ntone Edjabe

FIELD RECORDINGS WITH SHABAKA HUTCHINGS

FIELD RECORDINGS WED, 22 FEB 2023 from 6PM

A RADIO PROGRAMME ON THE LIFE AND WORK OF THE MYSTIC REVELATION OF RASTAFARI

Live on PASS - 14 February 2023, from 6pm

GROUNATION – a tribute to the Mystic Revelation of Rastafari

“Grounation Day” marks the landing of Emperor Selassie I in

Chimurenga presents GROUNATION

a tribute to the Mystic Revelation of Rastafari

LIBERATION RADIO: TUMI MOGOROSI’S GROUP THEORY:BLACK MUSIC

The latest episode in the Stories About Music in Africa

MYSTIC REVELATION OF RASTAFARI

We shall open this new cycle of programming with a

CHIMURENGA@20: IN PRAISE OF INDIGENOUS AFRICAN WORDFORM

Have African literary forms been lost in a morass of

THE WRITINGS OF BINYAVANGA WAINAINA

Launching a new collection of writings by the late, great

LIBERATION RADIO

an ongoing query on knowledge production via African sound worlds,

PASS LANDING IN DAR-ES-SALAAM

From 10 – 14 August 2022, we presented another edition

I’M NOT WHO YOU THINK I’M NOT

Serubiri Moses reflects on Binyavanga Wainaina’s refusal to fit neatly

CHIMURENGA@20: Midway Between Silence and Speech

The art and incarnation of Justine Gaga.

LIBERATION RADIO: MASELLO MOTANA’S VOCAL MUSEUM

The latest episode in the Stories About Music in Africa

MALCOLM JIYANE’S TREE-O

Live at Chimurenga Factory - Fri, 28 October 2022

TUMI MOGOROSI’S GROUP THEORY:BLACK MUSIC

Live at Chimurenga Factory - Sat, 22 Oct 2022

The Music Mind of Greg Tate: Sonic Syllabus for a Patternmaster

A 5-hour music selection in memory of Greg Tate on

LIBERATION MUSIC AT THE CHIMURENGA FACTORY – OCTOBER 2022

Tumi Mogorosi's Group Theory:Black Music and Malcolm Jiyane's Tree-O

CHIMURENGA@20: GENRES OF HUMAN

In his book, The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black

Euredice Zaituna Kala’s JE SUIS L’ARCHIVE / I, THE ARCHIVE

Live on PASS - 13 Sep 2022 from 6pm

LIBERATION RADIO

We’re proud to present a new edition of “Liberation Radio”

CHIMURENGA@20: ONCE THERE WERE HUMANS

In the hills above Kingston, Jamaica Annie Paul unpacks some

SOUNDGARDEN

a live reading for Bessie Head's 85th 13 July 2022

MASELLO MOTANA’S VOCAL MUSEUM

Live at the Chimurenga Factory

IN MEMORIAM: OMOSEYE BOLAJI (1964-2022)

We remember Nigerian-born writer, Omoseye Bolaji (1964-2022), and his immense

In conversation with Omoseye Bolaji

In the Free State, the most important and pivotal figure

CHIMURENGA@20: WHEN YOU KILL US, WE RULE!

In 1996, Keziah Jones visited Kalakuta Republic every day for

CHIMURENGA@20: MONDAY BLUES FOR SANDILE DIKENI

The most recent episode of Stories About Music in Africa

LIBERATION RADIO: PEOPLE WHO THINK TOGETHER, DANCE TOGETHER #7

Conversations with Christian Nyampeta, featuring Hannah Black, Sasha Bonét, Natacha

LIBERATION RADIO: PUNGWE 1

Selected and mixed by Robert Machiri

iPhupho L’ka Biko – live at the Chimurenga Factory

Thursday, 31 March 2022 7pm

CHIMURENGA@20: A Silent Way – Routes of South African Jazz, 1946-1978

Where to begin? Which silences? There are many.

Liberation Radio: Cape Town – 15-18 March 2022

Live on PASS: 15th-18th March 2022, 3-6pm

CHIMURENGA@20: Talkin’ ‘bout Survival – The Repatriation of Reggae

Where Apartheid and broadcasters divided South Africans culturally, here comes

PASS LANDING IN LISBON

Chimurenga and Hangar presented Radio MAC , a program curated

PASS LANDING AT KUNSTNERNES HUS, OSLO

From Wednesday, 17 - Saturday, 20 February, 2021, Pan African

CHIMURENGANYANA: THE FEAR AND LOATHING OUT OF HARARE BY DAMBUDZO MARECHERA (DEC 2021)

with supplementary urban map of Harare

MEDITATIONS ON JIMI HENDRIX

by Greg Tate All roads lead to Jimi Hendrix.

THE BROTHER MOVES ON RETURNS

Chimurenga Factory Saturday, 06 November 2021

Ground / Overground / Underground

By MOWOSO (translated by Dominique Malaquais)

Anti-Teleology: Re-Mapping the Imag(in)ed City

For some years now, scholars in a range of fields

Pieces of Dominique

The writings, translations and ideas of our dearly departed friend,

ALL I CAN SAY FOR NOW

By Jean-Christophe Lanquetin (translated by Dominique Malaquais)

Out of Sight

A short story by Yambo Ouologuem adapted from the French

That Thing We Dreamed

By Dominique Malaquais

Rumblin’

By Dominique Malaquais

JOKER’S WILD (SLIGHT RETURN)

By Dominique Malaquais

ON THE BRIDGE

By Koffi Kwahulé (translated by Dominique Malaquais)

FRANTZ – A STORY OF BONES

By Dominique Malaquais

SEXING AFRICA, AGAIN – POP AS POLITICS: WATCH IT TONIGHT ON HBO

By Dominique Malaquais

Blood Money – A Douala Chronicle

By Dominique Malaquais

PAINT THE WHITE HOUSE BLACK – A CALL TO ARMS

By Dominique Malaquais

CHE IN THE CONGO, ELECTRIC GUITARS AND THE INVENTION OF AFRICA

Featuring solos by Franco Luambo Makiadi, Pepe Felly Manuaku, Bansimba

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

Chimurenganyana: Home Is Where The Music Is by Uhuru Phalafala (September 2021)

HOME IS WHERE THE MUSIC IS

The latest addition to the Chimurenganyana series

Labour Tenants South Western Transvaal

"There's no real vocabulary for the non-photographed of apartheid‟ -

War and Spirits

You Have No Power Here

Karen Press reviews three first collections from publishing house uHlanga

The poetics of Futbol

CHIMURENGA SESSION: THE AFRO EURASIAN ECLIPSE

Bebson de la Rue & Tryonix – LIVE at PASS

Anthony Joseph & The Spasm Band – LIVE at Assembly, Cape Town

SALIM WASHINGTON, DALISU NDLAZI, ASHER GAMEDZE… IN CONVERSATION

QAMATA PULA — an ancestral invocation

PASS LANDING AT LAVOIR MODERNE PARISIEN, PARIS

OF WOUNDS, OF HANDS – live on PASS – 08 July 2021

a word/sound documentary by the Insurrections Ensemble, with an introduction

SALIM WASHINGTON, DALISU NDLAZI, ASHER GAMEDZE… IN CONVERSATION

Thursday, 24 June 2021 - 6pm

Chimurenganyana: Even When My Soup-curlers Slur, I Still Keep the Take by Georgia Anne Muldrow (June 2021)

A limited Chimurenganyana edition of Even When My Soup-Curlers Slur,

EVEN WHEN MY SOUP-CURLERS SLUR BY GEORGIA ANNE MULDROW – OUT NOW!

A limited Chimurenganyana edition of Even When My Soup-Curlers Slur,

RADIO MAC ON PASS – 14-21 June

Chimurenga and Hangar (Lisbon) present Radio MAC live on PASS

BLACK SUNLIGHT – A broadcast for Dambudzo Marechera on his 69th

Imagi-nation nwar – a PASS session in Paris

From 5-9 May 2021, Chimurenga’s Pan African Space Station (PASS)

THE SUMMER OF ’69

Writer Pierre Crépon selects recordings illustrating his essay on the

Remember Glissant

Moses März writes of Édouard Glissant, Martinican, poet and compatriot

CHIMURENGA CHRONIC – IMAGI-NATION NWAR – OUT NOW!

PASS in Oslo (17 – 20 February 2021)

PANAFEST, hosted by Chimurenga

A web documentary, audio-video archive and online cartography, that chronicles

QAMATA PULA, an ancestral invocation

iPhupho L’ka Biko and Pan African Space Station present QAMATA

A TRIBUTE TO DON CHERRY’S ORGANIC MUSIC SOCIETY (1967 – 1978)

Creative Urban Momentum: Witnessing the Black Unity Trio

In anticipation of the release of Black Unity Trios' legendary

Chimurenganyana: Becoming Kwame Ture by Amandla Thomas-Johnson (Oct 2020)

BECOMING KWAME TURE – OUT NOW!

The 12th Annual Abdullah Ibrahim Festival

CHIMURENGA@20: THE BARD OF BLOEMFONTEIN

Achal Prabhala goes to the heart of the Free State

Nigeria’s Superstar Men Of God

Who needs the God of the bible with his promises

African Cities Reader I: Pan-African Practices

Featuring writing and musings by Rustum Kozain, Jean-Christophe Lanquetin, Gabeba

Chimurenga 1 – Music is the Weapon (April 2002)

“…The struggle of black people inevitably appear in an intensely

African Cities Reader II: Mobilities & Fixtures

The second installment of the Reader features Sean O’Toole, David

African Cities Reader III: Land, Property & Value

The third installment of the Reader explores the unholy trinity

De l’art de vivre l’art

By Dominique Malaquais

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

We are standing under a glaring spotlight screaming at the

TRACKS

MADEYOULOOK collective met with photographer Santu Mofokeng to establish the

RIP PAPA GEORGE

They Won’t Go When I Go

A Manifesto/ Meditation on State of Black Archives in America

How Third World Students Liberated the West

In a twist to mainstream tropes of radical student movements

Monumental Failures

By Dominique Malaquais

Reproducing Festac ’77: A secret among a family of millions

Kwanele Sosibo speaks with Ntone Edjabe about the creation of,

Festac at 45: Steal Back the Treasure

In pirating the head of Queen Idia to use it

LEPHEPHE PRINT GATHERINGS 5 – CAPE TOWN

Urbanism Beyond Architecture – African Cities as Infrastructure

Vyjayanthi Rao, in conversation with Filip de Boeck & Abdou

Quel Est L’Endroit Idéal

Les Brasseries du Cameroun is the country’s largest industry and

Senegal & Festac 77

A presentation of Chimurenga's book, FESTAC '77, with Dialo Diop,

IN THE BOOKSHOP: KINSHASA CHRONIQUES / KINSHASA CHRONICLES

Kinshasa Chronicles is a richly textured encounter featuring seventy artists,

The Trajectory of a Street Photographer

My quest for an explanation for this omission in my

PASS LANDING AT THE NEW SCHOOL, NEW YORK

SALUT GLISSANT

“Nothing is true, everything is alive.” Moses März, imagines a

Search Sweet Country

In conversation with Binyavanga Wainaina, Kojo Laing talks to a

IN THE DEN OF THE ALCHEMIST

Which “they”? Which “one”? What “secrets” are you talking about?

Searching for Rotimi- A Letter From London

“We should take out that word ‘national’ and reconstruct that word ‘theatre’….

Perfect, perfect, you have solved the problem for me, we

Crossroads Republic

The Nigerian superstar bandleader Fela Anikulapo-Kuti hosted a covert summit

Dr Philip Tabane & Malombo LIVE at St George’s Cathedral, Cape Town

Georgia Anne Muldrow & Declaime LIVE at Guga S’thebe, Langa

Imperial Tiger Orchestra – LIVE at Albert Hall, Cape Town

Kyle Shepherd – LIVE at St Georges Cathedral, Cape Town

Brice Wassy LIVE at Albert Hall

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