Johnny Dyani offers a method to the Skanga (black music family) in this extended conversation with Aryan Kaganof. Photographs by George Hallett.
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A LIVE BROADCAST WITH DAMOLA OLOWADE
Friday, 24 November
7pm
Tune in at panafricanspacestation.org.za
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
Thursday, 09 November 2023
from 6pm.
Chimurenga Factory
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
LIBERATION RADIO: BOKANI DYER’S RADIO SECHABA
Chimurenga Factory
30 September
7pm
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: WHEN THREE SEVENS CLASH
A collection of writing and images on Zimbabwe, edited by Percy Zvomuya
Costa Diagne et Les Hommes de la danse
par Gabrielle Chomentowski
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
CONFESSIONS OF A CLOSET SOYINKA PLAGIARIST
A letter from Ibadan by 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.
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: 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
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: 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.
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
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.
In conversation with Omoseye Bolaji
By Chimurenga on 7 June 2022 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Cash & Commerce, Chimurenga Magazine, Media & Propaganda
In the Free State, the most important and pivotal figure in local black literature has been OMOSEYE BOLAJI. Pule Lechesa spoke with him about his awards, general grassroots writing in the Free State, and Black Writing in general.
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
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
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
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.
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
Ground / Overground / Underground
By MOWOSO (translated by Dominique Malaquais)
Anti-Teleology: Re-Mapping the Imag(in)ed City
By Dominique Malaquais
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
ALL I CAN SAY FOR NOW
By Jean-Christophe Lanquetin (translated by Dominique Malaquais)
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
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
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
Blood Money – A Douala Chronicle
By Chimurenga on 18 October 2021 in Arts & Pedagogy, Chimurenga Magazine, 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
Franc-maçonnerie Suite
Uncle Tom or DOM-TOM?
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.
HOME IS WHERE THE MUSIC IS
By Chimurenga on 25 August 2021 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chimurenga Library, Library Book Series, Music
The latest addition to the Chimurenganyana series
Labour Tenants South Western Transvaal
“There’s no real vocabulary for the non-photographed of apartheid‟ – Santu Mofokeng
War and Spirits
By Kirby Mania The timing of the publication of Confession of the […]
You Have No Power Here
Karen Press reviews three first collections from publishing house uHlanga that add welcome breadth to the range of South African poetry
The poetics of Futbol
The Touch It would have to be a bird, stilled on a […]
OF WOUNDS, OF HANDS – live on PASS – 08 July 2021
a word/sound documentary by the Insurrections Ensemble, with an introduction by Ari Sitas
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.
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.
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
Imagi-nation nwar – a PASS session in Paris
From 5-9 May 2021, Chimurenga’s Pan African Space Station (PASS) will land at Lavoir Moderne Parisien in Goutte d’or, Paris, to imagine, re-examine and re-circulate sonic archives of black radicalism in the francophone world.
THE SUMMER OF ’69
Writer Pierre Crépon selects recordings illustrating his essay on the American avant-garde jazz in Paris in 1969.
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 – […]
PASS in Oslo (17 – 20 February 2021)
On Wednesday 17 February through to Saturday 20 February, Pan African Space Station […]
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.
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
Creative Urban Momentum: Witnessing the Black Unity Trio
In anticipation of the release of Black Unity Trios’ legendary album, Al Fatihah, Hasan Abdur-Razzaq recalls witnessing their rehearsals in the late 1960s.
BECOMING KWAME TURE – OUT NOW!
By Chimurenga on 21 October 2020 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chimurenga Library, Library Book Series, Media & Propaganda
Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) was viewed by many during the civil rights […]
CHIMURENGA@20: THE BARD OF BLOEMFONTEIN
Achal Prabhala goes to the heart of the Free State literary renaissance with the “deliberately mysterious and prodigiously talented” Omoseye Bolaji.
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.
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
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
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
Reproducing Festac ’77: A secret among a family of millions
By Chimurenga on 29 May 2020 in 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.
Festac at 45: Steal Back the Treasure
By Chimurenga on 21 February 2020 in Arts & Pedagogy, Chimurenga Library, Library Book Series, Media & Propaganda
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 19 February 2020 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chimurenga Library, Media & Propaganda, News
Calling all printmakers and paper-peoples! In collaboration with our comrades at Keleketla! […]
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 […]
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.
Senegal & Festac 77
After New York in October 2019, and in the spirit of the trans-continentalism (aka Black World) of the event, we return to Dakar to celebrate the release of Chimurenga’s new publication on FESTAC ’77 – in collaboration with RAW Material Company.
IN THE BOOKSHOP: KINSHASA CHRONIQUES / KINSHASA CHRONICLES
Kinshasa Chronicles is a richly textured encounter featuring seventy artists, most of whom belong to a very young generation, telling tales of one of the world’s most vibrant creative hubs.
The Trajectory of a Street Photographer
My quest for an explanation for this omission in my history education made me appreciate the magnitude of the crime… for the struggle against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. – Santu Mofokeng
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.
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.
IN THE DEN OF THE ALCHEMIST
Which “they”? Which “one”? What “secrets” are you talking about? Oh! Come on! Cinema taught us long ago that there is always a secret in a laboratory and that evil-minded people are planning to get hold of it.
Searching for Rotimi- A Letter From London
Rotimi Fani-Kayode died 29 years ago (21 December 1989), in exile, after […]
“We should take out that word ‘national’ and reconstruct that word ‘theatre’….
By Chimurenga on 1 August 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.
Crossroads Republic
The Nigerian superstar bandleader Fela Anikulapo-Kuti hosted a covert summit meeting in the summer of 1977.
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: […]
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, […]
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
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.
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 […]
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 […]
Revisit moments from the PASS landing in Amsterdam
From 11 -15 December 2016, the Pan African Space Station transmitted live […]
Udaba with Kgafela oa Mogogodi – LIVE at Centre for the Book, Cape Town (2009)
On 1 October 2009, Pan African Space Station hosted Udaba at The […]
Denderah Rising with Georgia Anne Muldrow + Thandi Ntuli Quartet + The Monkey Nuts
In April 2018, PASS welcomed back Georgia Anne Muldrow and her […]
BLACKOUT x 7 Octobre
Native Maqari and Keziah Jones Villa Medici channel Fela take on on […]
10 Paragraphs of Music Criticism
Kodwo Eshun discusses selected paragraphs of music criticism, taking in Kim Gordon’s […]
P.A.S.S. HARARE
From 9 – 12 November, the Pan African Space Station (PASS) landed […]
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 […]
TO REFUSE THAT WHICH HAS BEEN REFUSED TO YOU
Fred Moten and Saidiya Hartman sit down to talk about the temporal […]
The Nigerian Art of Patronage
Deji Toye looks at the legacy of arts funding in Nigeria 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 […]
AT HOME WITH ZEBULON DREAD/SWAMI SITARAM
For over a decade, the man born as Elliot Josephs terrorised Cape […]
Civil Lines
An Essay by Achal Prabhala At some point in the 1980s – […]
FOUR GROUND-BREAKING THINGS IN FIVE ISSUES OF CIVIL LINES OR, WAYS TO GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF THE POSTCOLONIAL SAND
an essay by Vivek Narayanan [Note: while preparing this piece, I benefited greatly […]
The Emperor of Kinshasa’s Street Comics
by Nancy Rose Hunt Beginning nearly fifty years ago, in 1968, Kinshasa […]
Spear: Canada’s Truth and Soul Magazine
by Peter James Hudson November 2010 Spear: Canada’s Truth and Soul Magazine launched […]
Staffriding the Frontline
An Essay by Lesego RampolokengMay 2008 Down from a couple years beyond […]
Staffrider
An Essay by Ivan VladislavićMarch 2008 I joined Ravan Press as a […]
Of “Brothers with Perfect Timing”
An Essay by Mike Abraham2008 Germiston station has a very long platform. […]
Theatre du pouvoir AT the louvre – a letter from Paris
Kibafika Kakudji On 29 January 2018, the day after I turned 40, […]
SUNGURA STORIES
Ranga Mberi travels back in musical time to the 1980s and 1990s, […]
PORTRAIT OF MYSELF AS MY FATHER
A CONVERSATION WITH NORA CHIPAUMIRE Born in Mutare, Zimbabwe, and based in New […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
A BRIEF HISTORY OF CHIMURENGA AS A COMMUNAL LABORATORY
by Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga Since the 1970s, Zimbabweans have used the term […]
Zidane’s Melancholy
Zidane watched the Berlin sky, not thinking of anything, a white sky […]
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 […]
Zidane, a 21st century portrait
Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parenno’s ambitious 2006 cinematic collaboration, Zidane, a 21st […]
Keorapetse Kgositsile on Johnny Dyani
Jazz was crucial to South African poet Keorapetse Kgositsile‘s most influential idea: […]
Staffriding the Frontline – An Essay by Lesego Rampolokeng
May 2008 Down from a couple years beyond 30/30. it was the […]
Culture And Resistance In South Africa
by Keorapetse Kgositsile Keynote address from the Culture and Resistance Symposium (1982) […]
Crossing Borders Without Leaving
by Keorapetse Kgositsile Returning home, even though just for a short visit, […]
Le sexe de Matonge
Sony Labou Tansi À Ngalamulume, le Kinois « Nazalaka moluba. Et je […]
Who Killed Kabila?
The Pan African Space Station/Chimurenga Library at La Colonie, Paris 13 December […]
Down the footpath
By Chimurenga on 6 November 2017 in Arts & Pedagogy, Cash & Commerce, Faith & Ideology, Media & Propaganda
Emmanuel Iduma in conversation with photographer Akinbode Akinbiyi On a number of […]
Home is where the music is
Hugh Masekela (talking to Mothobi Mutloatse) I remember we use to live […]
Felasophy Through the Years: Fond Recollections of Fela Kuti
by Tunde Giwa Growing up in post civil-war Kaduna, Northern Nigeria, in […]
De l’art de vivre l’art
Dominique Malaquais Goddy Leye nous a quittés. C’était le 19 février 2011, […]
La Puissance De Werewere Liking
One cannot avoid that vocabulary of hyper-inflation of much contemporary cultural or […]
The Divine World of Making Things with My Hands
A conversation with Jackie Karuti by Bongani Kona Jackie Karuti (1987) is […]
A Layered Way of Working
Helen Teede is a Zimbabwean painter based in Harare. She left 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.
Yahoo Boy No Laptop
Dami Ajayi celebrates the eclectic sound and success of Olamide, arguably Nigeria’s […]
The New Thing: Part II*
The pretence of cultural hubs in the “world class” metropolis of Johannesburg […]
Shoki Master
By Oris Aigbokhaevbolo Like any story worth telling, this one involves […]
Blame Me On History
Atiyyah Khan is a writer, researcher and arts journalist based in Cape […]
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 […]
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 […]
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
Penpoints, Gunpoints, and Dreams: A history of creative writing instruction in East Africa
From the earnest hustle of our elders in writing during the 1960s […]
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 […]
ALL I CAN SAY FOR NOW
By Jean-Christophe Lanquetin* During the last five years of Unathi Sigenu’s life, […]
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.
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
Debt and Study
Against the proliferation of capitalist logistics, governance by credit and the management […]
The Complete Gentleman
In London Kamwendo’s interpretation of Amos Tutuola’s sly satire of spectral global capitalism […]
Kaveena
In Catherine Anyango’s adaptation of Boubacar Boris Diop’s Kaveena, the boundary between nightmare and […]
Afro Horn
Forged from a rare metal found only in Africa and South America, […]
Yakhal’ Inkomo
An explosive bellow from the spiritual heart of the black experience, saxophonist […]
Major Gentl and the Achimota Wars
Set in 2020, Kojo Laing‘s 1992 dark ecological sci-fi novel envisions a condition […]
Time to Bleed
An extended conversation between Aryan Kaganof and Walter Mignolo What I […]
The Making of Mannenberg
By John Edwin Mason On a winter’s day in 1974, a group […]
The Way I See It: We Need New Myths
By Shabaka Hutchings Probing the musical narratives of jazz and hip-hop, saxophonist […]
From the earnest hustle of our elders in writing during the 1960s […]
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 […]
ALL I CAN SAY FOR NOW
By Jean-Christophe Lanquetin* During the last five years of Unathi Sigenu’s life, […]
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.
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
Debt and Study
Against the proliferation of capitalist logistics, governance by credit and the management […]
The Complete Gentleman
In London Kamwendo’s interpretation of Amos Tutuola’s sly satire of spectral global capitalism […]
Kaveena
In Catherine Anyango’s adaptation of Boubacar Boris Diop’s Kaveena, the boundary between nightmare and […]
Afro Horn
Forged from a rare metal found only in Africa and South America, […]
Yakhal’ Inkomo
An explosive bellow from the spiritual heart of the black experience, saxophonist […]
Major Gentl and the Achimota Wars
Set in 2020, Kojo Laing‘s 1992 dark ecological sci-fi novel envisions a condition […]
Time to Bleed
An extended conversation between Aryan Kaganof and Walter Mignolo What I […]
The Making of Mannenberg
By John Edwin Mason On a winter’s day in 1974, a group […]
The Way I See It: We Need New Myths
By Shabaka Hutchings Probing the musical narratives of jazz and hip-hop, saxophonist […]
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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