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Category: Books & Oration

Rhythms of a Road, Voices of an Ethnographer

A composed journey through Maputo by Vanessa Ulia Dantas e

this month at CHIMURENGA FACTORY

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

LISTEN: Mario Lewis in conversation

Author of the latest Chimurenganyana 'Forest Notebooks' takes us through

POEMS AGAINST GENOCIDE

An evening of poetry, Friday 7 November from 7pm

Brandfort: Liberation Capital [1977-86] – FREE STATE LAUNCH

Celebrating the launch of 'Brandfort: Liberation Capital [1977-86]' in Brandfort,

LISTEN: Dambudzo Marechera w/ The Otolith Collective and George Shire

The Otolith Collective & George Shire study Dambudzo Marechera, author

JABU GOES TO JOBURG- A Chimurenga Fotonovela

First in a new series of fotonovelas produced by Chimurenga

SURPLUS VALUES BY ARI SITAS OUT NOW!

The latest publication in the Chimurenganyana series

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

Thursday, 16 October from 7pm

Mamane

Remembering Mam'Winnie Madikizela-Mandela's time in Majwemasweu, Brandfort

THE CHRONIC: BRANDFORT, LIBERATION CAPITAL [1977-86]

A special edition of Chimurenga Chronic, exploring the intellectual, social

THE FASTEST TITLER IN AMERICA

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

A DREAMSCAPE OF ASTONISHMENT

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

THE USEFULNESS OF FORGETTING

The usefulness of forgetting, a review of Were Were Liking's

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

MARIO LEWIS – FOREST NOTEBOOKS

A GATHERING – for Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

A two-part memorial reading Monday 30 June & Wednesday 2

BRANDFORT, LIBERATION CAPITAL [1977-86] – THE URBAN MAP

A supplement publication to the latest edition of Chimurenga Chronic

NGUGI WA THIONG’O – THE WRITER IN POST-COLONIAL AFRICA with an introduction by Ari Sitas

Live on PASS from 6.30pm

CHIMURENGANYANA: FOREST NOTEBOOKS – MARIO LEWIS

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

FOREST NOTEBOOKS LAUNCH OF THE ECHO-LOGIES SERIES

Thursday, 08 May from 8pm

SONGS FOR WINNIE – LAUNCH OF THE CHRONIC WITH A SEMBLANCE

Chimurenga presents the launch of the latest edition of The

Bajove Dokotela

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

THIS WAY I SALUTE YOU – a gathering for Keorapetse Kgositsile

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

On Mermaids and Microwaves

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

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

From the earnest hustle of our elders in writing during

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

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

NATIONAL HEROES ACRE II & III

by Brian Chikwa, Photographs by Jekesai Njikizanava

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

BUILDING THE HOUSE OF LIFE

Ayi Kwei Armah traces the contour of an old conflict

Breather’s Night

I love you, I put my hands over your eyes

Surviving Loss by Busisiwe Mahlangu (Impepho Press, 2018)

Mahlangu's debut collection, written between 2015 and 2018, is undoing

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!

pumflet ‘hophuis’

'hophuis' documents a series of journeys to and activations made

Taty Went West by Nikhil Singh (Kwani?, 2018)

Taty is a troubled teen running away from home. She

50 Years Ago: Zeke in Nigeria

Es’kia Mphahlele and the Anti-Apartheid Association of Nigeria

Unchain the art

Gwen Ansell maps the distance between words and music, fiction

Cover Story

He's been described as the "founding father of African literature",

The Headline That Morning and Other Poems by Peter Kagayi (Soo Many Stories, 2016)

Whiteheart: Prologue to Hysteria by Lesego Rampolokeng (Deep South, 2005)

When Three Sevens Clash (Mbonga Editions, 2023)

Xamissa – The Water Archives by Henk Rossouw (Akashic Books, 2018)

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

The Forest and the Zoo

Johnny Dyani offers a method to the Skanga (black music

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

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

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

LATEST IN STORE: WHEN THREE SEVENS CLASH

A collection of writing and images on Zimbabwe, edited by

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

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

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

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

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

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: MONDAY BLUES FOR SANDILE DIKENI

The most recent episode of Stories About Music in Africa

Chimurenganyana: You Look Illegal by Paula Ihozo Akugizibwe (Feb 2022)

A mediation on skin, violence, and the limits of citizenship

Liberation Radio: Cape Town – 15-18 March 2022

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

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

with supplementary urban map of Harare

Pieces of Dominique

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

Out of Sight

A short story by Yambo Ouologuem adapted from the French

JOKER’S WILD (SLIGHT RETURN)

By Dominique Malaquais

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

Translating Tram 83

It was the only place on earth you could hang

You Have No Power Here

Karen Press reviews three first collections from publishing house uHlanga

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

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

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,

The Enemy in Her Imagination: A Fable

Rahel first met the young, 11-year old boy, on December

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

Remember Glissant

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

CHIMURENGA CHRONIC – IMAGI-NATION NWAR – OUT NOW!

PANAFEST, hosted by Chimurenga

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

“The Oppressor Remains What He Is”

A conversation between writer Boubacar Boris Diop and scholar Jean-Pierre

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

BECOMING KWAME TURE – OUT NOW!

CHIMURENGA@20: THE BARD OF BLOEMFONTEIN

Achal Prabhala goes to the heart of the Free State

African Cities Reader I: Pan-African Practices

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

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

Abbey Lincoln’s Scream: Poetic Improvisation as a Way of Life

We are standing under a glaring spotlight screaming at 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 ’77

Early in 1977, thousands of artists, writers, musicians, activists and

LEPHEPHE PRINT GATHERINGS 5 – CAPE TOWN

Urbanism Beyond Architecture – African Cities as Infrastructure

Vyjayanthi Rao, in conversation with Filip de Boeck & Abdou

IN THE BOOKSHOP: KINSHASA CHRONIQUES / KINSHASA CHRONICLES

Kinshasa Chronicles is a richly textured encounter featuring seventy artists,

Listen to “Sankomota: An Ode in One Album”

On 31 May, we hosted the launch of Phehello Mofokeng‘s

SALUT GLISSANT

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

IN MEMORIAM: Binyavanga Wainaina (1971 – 2019)

A friend, a Chimurenga founding father, an award winning writer,

Colossal KOUROUMA

What could have happened in his head to take literally

Frantz Fanon’s Uneven Ribs

For me knowledge is very powerful. Any knowledge has claws

POETS WITH GUNS: A CONVERSATION WITH CHIRIKURE CHIRIKURE

Search Sweet Country

In conversation with Binyavanga Wainaina, Kojo Laing talks to a

The Pharaoh’s New Clothes

Its location, vocation, and publication intended to speak to a

Who Killed Kabila

New Cartographies

STAFFRIDER

SPEAR

SAVACOU

REVUE NOIRE

OKYEAME

MOTO

MOLOTOV COCKTAIL

An intellectually militant periodical, first published in 2007

HEI VOETSEK!

HAMBONE

GLENDORA REVIEW

ECRANS D’AFRIQUE

Civil Lines

Amkenah

AFRICAN FILM

Published by Drum in Nigeria and later also Kenya and

Who invented truth

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

Where Is This Place

Keguro Macharia asks how might one describe where One Day

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

WHAT AFRICAN WRITERS CAN LEARN FROM CHEIKH ANTA DIOP

In a testament to Cheikh Anta Diop, Boubacar Boris Diop

10 Paragraphs of Music Criticism

Joe An Essay by Sam Kahiga June 2008

Civil Lines

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

Black Images – An Essay by Peter James Hudson

The Impossible Death of an African Crime Buster

The Emperor of Kinshasa’s Street Comics

Spear: Canada’s Truth and Soul Magazine

Staffriding the Frontline

Staffrider

Short Review – The Year of the Rat

WRITING AS AN ACT OF GENEROSITY

The Making of the Impossible

PORTRAIT OF MYSELF AS MY FATHER

CHEIKH ANTA DIOP – AN AWAKENING

To Defend and to Question

Who Killed Kabila I

From December 13 – 17, 2017, Chimurenga installed a library

English Language Visa

An Essay on Uneven Ribs: a Prelude

Blame Me On History

The Sahara Is Not A Boundary

How To Cook Your Husband The African Way

A Letter from a Homeless Prodigal

Calabar Winch

African Cookbooks and Excess Luggage

PASS LANDING AT OBA CENTRAL LIBRARY, AMSTERDAM

From 11 -15 December 2016, the Pan African Space Station

The Complete Gentleman

The Art of Suspense

Writing Football

The Invention of African Football

A Fine Madness

Politics of Betrayal

Dear Dr. Schwab, Queen of Jordan

Binyavanga Wainaina responds to an invitation to participate in Young

Dansons Donc le Zouglou

Creating Theatre: A George Hallett Photo Essay

CAMFRANGLAIS – a lexicon

Love and Learning Under the World Bank

Land Homeland

The Sahara is not a Boundary

Jeune Afrique

Souffles

Trajectories of the Sudanese Gulf

Hiwar

Qibla

Writing the City in a Different Script

CHIMURENGA@20: SECULAR STORIES

Authenticity counts for something; the confidence that authenticity bestows counts

The New Reading

Some argue that the new media has forever altered our

CHIMURENGA@20: WAITING FOR WAME

I am hungry. Tempted. In pain. I reach for the

Authority Stealing in Kenya

Both Sides Then and Now

Authority Stealing in Nigeria

Authority Stealing in India

A Petition for Mongo Beti

Patrice Nganang recalls the duel between politics and the literary

I Think I’ll Call it Morning

The Shifting Fortunes of a Performing Poet

Black Man in the White Suit

Pan Africanism in Katanga

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