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Category: Books & Oration

Becoming Chimamanda’s Boy

Creative Industries as Underdevelopment

All That is Solid Melts into PR

Mark Fisher speaks to Bongani Kona about the social, economic

Reviews in Brief

Operation Protective Edge

Portrait of the Artist as a Daughter

Licking Dirty Hands

Undoing the Spell

The Undeveloped Intellectual in Zombie-land

Breaking the Rules Beautifully

Men and their Dogs

Miniature Metamorphoses

The Other Brother

A Geography of Times and Affects

And the Books Lived Happily Ever After

Which Africa Are We Talking About?

Shooting From Point Blank Range

Beneath the Underdog

Shifting Gulfward

Life After Oil

We almost died thrice…

The Bite and the Embrace

The Face: Cartography of the Void

A Brief History of Mapping

How Close Are You To This Place?

How to write about Africa

In Suburbia

The Chronic – mapping the new – soon come

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

Kangsen Feka Wakai Can’t Breathe

Beyond Oppression-Liberation-Maendeleo

Ankara Press, new romance imprint from Cassava Republic Press

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

The New Thing

Exitour as Rhizome

Une Hommage à Goddy Leye

The G.Spot Protagonists

Honouring Somaliness

Binyavanga Wainaina and Diriye Osman sit down in south London

Poets Pressing Record(s)

Mythscience Records

This is a pigment of my imagination

How Kenya Exploded In My Heart

XXYX Africa

LGBT Africa held two truths: you fuck, you die.

Buru Buru

The Case of Sipho Mchunu

Poets Are Hurting: Lesego Rampolokeng in Conversation with Mafika Gwala

Accordion Cowboys

AF 888

Palestine Journey

L’impossible n’est pas Camerounais!

Visioncarnation

The Black Guru

The cosmic lives and afterlives of Zebulon Dread

11 YRS OF DEMONCRAZY!!!

Historieda

Motshumi’s Country

It’s only a matter of acceleration now

This is how the earth is arranged, or this is

New Bush, Old Ghosts

When You Kill Us, We Rule

Sketches of ‘Trane

The End of Elections

A Brief History of Presidential Libraries

In Praise of Complexity

Translations – A Call For Proposals

The skin I’m in: Afro-Bengali solidarity and possible futures

Paris-Algiers, Underground Class

“I’m Not An African Writer, Damn You!”

Number 11

The Hyphenated African

Fuzzy Goo’s Guide (to the Earth)

Even the Dead

Shoes

A Three Point Shot from Andromeda

Americanah and other definitions of supple citizenships

Onitsha Republic

Neo Africanus: In Teju Cole’s World

I Have Always Meant to Fail

How to be a Nigerian

A Corpse and its Jurisdiction – a letter from Lagos

When We Hear the Name of President

Washing Henry – a letter from New York

The Chronic: The Philanthropic Complex (August 2013)

Writers in the broadsheet include Jon Soske, Paula Akugizibwe, Yves

Che

Death by Memory [of Freedom]; Truth & Reconciliation

Who’s Free, Who’s Not, Who Was, Who Wasn’t, and Who’s Dead: And, Are You Sure You Know Which Way Is Up?

Suspect Sammy

Memento Mori

Name Death & Text

Damballah

Dance of the Infidels presents: Nollywood Confidential

Authority Stealing: The business of crime writing in Kenya, India and Nigeria

10 Questions For Mukoma Wa Ngugi

Godhead

Everyday is for the Thief

I Smoked A Spliff With Jesus Christ

WHO’S CALLING?

Home and away

The way back home

Way Back Home excerpt

Achebe The Native Intellectual

Moses’ outro

Ten paragraphs of Music Criticism

The night Moses died (Parts one and two)

Kin La Belle

To Be or Not To Bop

Call for an Archive of AfroSonics

The collective improvisations of black America – and their profound

Imprinting Afrosonics

Beautiful Voices – a call for AstroandAfrosonics recordings

Letters to Hillbrow

Is Biko’s legacy being besmirched?

Monica Maxwell and Samson Botsotso

Notes Towards A Question of Power

Diary Of A Bad Year

Must You Stage an Escape?

New Bushs Old Ghosts

An Introduction to Arithmetic Sorcery

The Test

Childhood Snapshots

Discoveries of Timbuktu

In Search of Yambo

It Begins with a Place

t would be a very idiosyncratic Harlem! Years ago when

Asia in My Life

I have always felt the need for Africa, Asia and

The Spark of Life: Where Novels Come From

wani? Manuscript Project, Kwani Trust’s new literary prize for African

Ten Pieces of Advice for the Writing Life

Read to become a better writer. This sounds like “eat

Chimurenganyana: The Night Moses Died by Nicole Turner (June 2012)

A powerful, personal evocation of the late Afro-Jazz composer and

Chimurenganyana: Rumblin’ by Dominique Malaquais (June 2012)

A text and image reflection on the “Rumble in the

Chimurenganyana: In Search of Yambo Ouologuem by Christopher Wise (June 2012)

Yambo Ouologuem, Malian author, has been shrouded in mystery since

Chimurenganyana: The Making of Mannenberg by John Edwin Mason (June 2012)

On a winter’s day in 1974, a group of musicians

Chimurenganyana: The Forest & The Zoo by Aryan Kaganoff (June 2012)

Johnny Dyani offers a method to the Skanga in this

Chimurenganyana: Dr Satan’s Echo Chamber by Louise Chude-Sokei (June 2012)

Reggae, technology and the diaspora - the (un)making of Dr.

Chimurenganyana: 52 Niggers by Stacy Hardy (June 2012)

A word-sound investigation of Julius Eastman‘s caged negratas

Emerging from the Dark?

Mafika Gwala speaks to Andrea Meeson about not living in

Sortir de la grande nuit. Essai sur l’Afrique décolonisée

Chimurenganyana: In Defence of the Films We Have Made by Odia Ofeimun (2009)

Chimurenganyana: Variations of the Beautiful in the World of Congolese Sounds by Achille Mbembe (2009)

Chimurenganyana: Thinking of Brenda by Njabulo Ndebele (2009)

Chimurenganyana: Blood Money – A Douala Chronicle by Dominique Malaquais (2009)

Chimurenganyana: When You Kill Us, We Rule! by Keziah Jones (June 2009)

Chimurenganyana: A Silent Way: Routes of South African Jazz, 1946-1978 by Julian Jonker (June 2009)

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