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Category: Arts & Pedagogy

MFUMU’ETO

LAMALIF

HEI VOETSEK!

HAMBONE

GLENDORA REVIEW

Civil Lines

Amkenah

Who invented truth

Tired of truth, I am. And metanarratives and more truth and post colonies.

Where Is This Place

Keguro Macharia asks how might one describe where One Day I Will Write About This Place lives as it travels?

DISCOVERING HOME

Nothing was impossible for a writer like him

Billy Kahora on Binyavanga Wainaina’s Work

Pass Me the Microphone: Phoebe Boswell

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

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 LANDING AT MUMA, MELBOURNE

From 11-13 April 2019, the Pan African Space Station landed in the stolen and occupied land of the Boonwurrung (of the Kulin nation),

PASS is going to Australia!

Neo Muyanga – The Sex For Money No Power Mixtape

Revisit moments from the PASS landing in Amsterdam

Udaba with Kgafela oa Mogogodi – LIVE at Centre for the Book, Cape Town (2009)

Denderah Rising with Georgia Anne Muldrow + Thandi Ntuli Quartet + The Monkey Nuts

BLACKOUT x 7 Octobre

10 Paragraphs of Music Criticism

P.A.S.S. HARARE

Dislocations in the Congolese World of Sound

TO REFUSE THAT WHICH HAS BEEN REFUSED TO YOU

TO REFUSE THAT WHICH HAS BEEN REFUSED TO YOU

The Nigerian Art of Patronage

HOLIDAY PLANNING WITH HEI VOETSEK!

AT HOME WITH ZEBULON DREAD/SWAMI SITARAM

Civil Lines

FOUR GROUND-BREAKING THINGS IN FIVE ISSUES OF CIVIL LINES OR, WAYS TO GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF THE POSTCOLONIAL SAND

The Emperor of Kinshasa’s Street Comics

Spear: Canada’s Truth and Soul Magazine

Staffriding the Frontline

Staffrider

Of “Brothers with Perfect Timing”

Theatre du pouvoir AT the louvre – a letter from Paris

PORTRAIT OF MYSELF AS MY FATHER

NONE BUT OURSELVES

THE WAY I SEE IT – National Heroes Acre I

MURIMI MUNHU

BAHUJANAFRIQUE – A PLAUSIBLE FUTURE

A BRIEF HISTORY OF CHIMURENGA AS A COMMUNAL LABORATORY

Zidane’s Melancholy

Zinedine Zidane and and the event of the secret

Grant Farred produces a Derridean reading of Zidane’s world-stopping head butt.

To Defend and to Question

Zidane, a 21st century portrait

Keorapetse Kgositsile on Johnny Dyani

Staffriding the Frontline – An Essay by Lesego Rampolokeng

Culture And Resistance In South Africa

Crossing Borders Without Leaving

PASS LANDING AT LA COLONIE, PARIS

Chimurenga returned to Paris for a 5-day intervention and installation at La Colonie. From December 13 – 17, 2017,

Le sexe de Matonge

Who Killed Kabila?

Who Killed Kabila I

The Chimurenga Library is a research platform that seeks to re-imagine the library as a laboratory for extended curiosity, new adventures, critical thinking, daydreaming, socio-political involvement, partying and random perusal.

PASS LANDING AT NATIONAL GALLERY OF ZIMBABWE, HARARE

From 9 – 12 November, the Pan African Space Station (PASS) landed in The National Gallery of Zimbabwe (NGZ) in the centre of Harare.

Down the footpath

Home is where the music is

De l’art de vivre l’art

La Puissance De Werewere Liking

The Divine World of Making Things with My Hands

PASS LANDING AT MUSEO TAMAYO, MEXICO CITY

From 4 October – 26 November 2017, the Pan African Space Station (PASS) broadcast LIVE from Museo Tamayo, Mexico City.

A Layered Way of Working

Some African Cultural Concepts By Steve Biko

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

The New Thing: Part II*

Shoki Master

Blame Me On History

No Congo, No Technology

Dear President Museveni

Grandmothers Teaching: A view from South Africa

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

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

ALL I CAN SAY FOR NOW

Dagga

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

Recorded live at Chimurenga HQ, Cape Town, in February 2017

PASS LANDING AT CIC LIBRARY, CAIRO

From 17 -19 February 2017, the Pan African Space Station landed in the library of Contemporary Image Collective (CiC) in downtown Cairo.

PASS LANDING AT OBA CENTRAL LIBRARY, AMSTERDAM

From 11 -15 December 2016, the Pan African Space Station (PASS) landed in Amsterdam, transmitting live from the OBA Central Library.

Debt and Study

The Complete Gentleman

Kaveena

Afro Horn

Yakhal’ Inkomo

Major Gentl and the Achimota Wars

Time to Bleed

PASS LANDING AT FREEDOM PARK, LAGOS

From 23 – 26 June 2016, PASS descended on Freedom Park in Lagos, as part of Goethe Institute’s Lagos_Live 2016 festival.

The Making of Mannenberg

Thinking of Brenda

“That Guy No Be Ordinary”

Yemisi Aribisala grapples with the real-time significance of the artist Victor Ehikhamenor, one of his most celebrated works, “The Flower of a Girl”, and the nonsensical brandishing of the banal in the context of Nigerian art as big business.

Reform and Revolution at the University of Lovanium

Marcus Garvey is Alive in East Africa

PASS LANDING AT KALLIO LIBRARY, HELSINKI

Can a past that the present has not yet caught up with be summoned to haunt the present as an alternative? In April and May 2016,

Inaudible I

Giant Steps – from a film by Aryan Kaganof and Geoff Mphakati

schwab-painting-petroff

Dear Dr. Schwab, Queen of Jordan

Binyavanga Wainaina responds to an invitation to participate in Young Global Leaders 2007

Folk Dancing for Beginners

Dansons Donc le Zouglou

PASS LANDING AT PERFORMA 15 HUB, NEW YORK

From 11 to 15 November 2015, the Chimurenga Library hosted PASS with a live broadcasting programme of music, interviews,

Sermon on the Train

PASS LANDING AT THE SHOWROOM, LONDON

In the first week of October 2015, PASS presented a live broadcasting programme of music, interviews and events with Chimurenga collaborators in London including musicians, journalists, writers, curators and filmmakers.

Lagos, Lagos

The Amazing Career of Passport Number B957848

Creating Theatre: A George Hallett Photo Essay

PASS LANDING AT FOUNDATION CARTIER, PARIS

From 17 – 19 September 2015 , the Pan African Space Station (PASS) installed our pop-up inside the gallery of Fondation Cartier,

Topaze

Rumblin’

Variations on the Beautiful in the Congolese World of Sounds

by Achille Mbembe; translated by Dominique Malaquais

Gordon Parks Photo Essay

The Sound of Freedom

Liner Notes

What We Did After We Lost 100 Years of Wealth

Gospel Christian Porn Rap

Invisible Borders

Mining the Biennale

Love and Learning Under the World Bank

Archie Shepp’s Shirt Suggests

By Dominique Malaquais and Cédric Vincent

A Silent Way: Routes of South African Jazz, 1946-1978.

Land Homeland

Sounding the Horn on Reconstruction

Queenstown

Season’s Greetings

Ayinde Barrister: Tribute to a True Exponent

Jeune Afrique

Souffles

El-Salahi – The Wise Enemy

Al Fatah

Trajectories of the Sudanese Gulf

Ibrahim El-Salahi

Entretien Bouchra Khalili

1966

Hiwar

The New Reading

Some argue that the new media has forever altered our attention span, that the experience of being completely lost and absorbed, an experience they say you only got from a printed book, has disappeared.

CHIMURENGA@20: WAITING FOR WAME

I am hungry. Tempted. In pain. I reach for the pack. Pop out another capsule. One minute. Ten minutes. Twenty minutes. The pain has reduced to a dull throbbing. I am floating.

Authority Stealing in Kenya

Under the Caine Bridge

A Petition for Mongo Beti

Patrice Nganang recalls the duel between politics and the literary sphere in 1990s Yaoundé – a time when the campaign for ‘democracy’ exposed the chiasmus that is the Cameroonian intelligence, and the words of Mongo Beti ignited a movement for dissent, return and reconstruction.

The Shifting Fortunes of a Performing Poet

Black Man in the White Suit

The Institute

Manufacturing African Celebrity

Soft Power Desire Machines and the Production of Africa Rising

Creative Industries as Underdevelopment

Reviews in Brief

Portrait of the Artist as a Daughter

Undoing the Spell

Which Africa Are We Talking About?

Shooting From Point Blank Range

We almost died thrice…

How Close Are You To This Place?

Gateway

What Follows? The State of Black Collectivity in the Year of the Sheep

Between Worldliness and Exile Homelessness and Cosmopolitanism

Dispatches from Beirut

In the Listening Room with Neo Muyanga

The African Renaissance Hoer-o-scope for Politicians

The Story of an African Farm

The Alternative is at Hand

Propaganda and Politics tunnel vision history of art activism in South Africa

The New Thing

Midway Between Silence and Speech

Exitour as Rhizome

Une Hommage à Goddy Leye

The Beautiful Beast

The G.Spot Protagonists

Philatelic Pan Africanism

Poets Pressing Record(s)

Mythscience Records

Floyd Mayweather and Improvised Modalities of Rhythm

Accordion Cowboys

Why music is better than photography

Palestine Journey

Searching for Augusto Zita

A New Myth

Masquerade

11 YRS OF DEMONCRAZY!!!

Historieda

New Bush, Old Ghosts

When You Kill Us, We Rule

Obstacles

A Brief History of Throwing Shit

“Nice Nice” Will Get You Nowhere

Happy Valentine’s Day

Method After Fela

Translations – A Call For Proposals

The Last Angel of History

Say What You Mean

Americanah and other definitions of supple citizenships

Depth of Field

When We Hear the Name of President

Lagos Underground

Lagos: A Pilgrimage in Notations

Washing Henry – a letter from New York

Interactions: A Strategy of Difference and Repetition

The Chronic (August 2013)

Writers in the broadsheet include Jon Soske, Paula Akugizibwe, Yves Mintoogue, Adewale Maja-Pearce, Parsalelo Kantai, Fred Moten & Stefano Harney, Cedric Vincent, Deji Toye, Derin Ajao, Tony Mochama, Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah,Agri Ismaïl, Lindokuhle Nkosi, Bongani Kona, Stacy Hardy, Emmanuel Induma, Ugochukwu-Smooth Nzewi, Lolade Ayewudi, Simon Kuper and many others.

Death by Memory [of Freedom]; Truth & Reconciliation

America Will Always Blame…

Rest In Peace Chiwoniso Maraire

Godhead

In Defense Of The Films We Have Made

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