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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
Guilt Trips
Kai Friese interrogates the colonial fantasy that lives on in the sententious philanthropy of ethical tourism.
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
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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
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
CHIMURENGA@20: Midway Between Silence and Speech
The art and incarnation of Justine Gaga.
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”
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.
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
Launching NOTES FOR AN ORATORIO ON SMALL THINGS THAT FALL
By Chimurenga on 12 April 2022 in Cash & Commerce, Chimurenga Library, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, News, Systems of Governance
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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
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
Koltan Kills Kids
By Chimurenga on 19 October 2021 in Cash & Commerce, Chimurenga Magazine, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
By Tsuba Ka 23 (Dominique Malaquais, Mowoso, Kongo Astronauts)
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
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
WHO WILL SAVE THE SAVIOURS?
By Chimurenga on 11 August 2021 in Cash & Commerce, Chronic, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
A close gaze at the collective apathy that killed Dr. Sebi
THIRD TRANSITION
By Chimurenga on 27 July 2021 in Cash & Commerce, Chronic, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
Shoks Mzolo and Bongani Kona trace the path of South Africa’s transformation from a criminal apartheid state to a criminal neoliberal state
“Angazi, but I’m sure”: A Raw Académie Session
By Chronic on 21 July 2021 in Cash & Commerce, Chimurenga Library, Faith & Ideology, Gaming, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
RAW Material Company is a Dakar-based centre for art, knowledge and society; […]
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 – […]
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.
Your Own Hand Sold You: Voluntary servitude in the Francafrique
By Chronic on 28 December 2020 in Cash & Commerce, Chronic, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
In the CFA franc, the French colonial mission in West Africa found a way to ensure a paternalist and pernicious stranglehold on the economies of a vast region of the continent.
Ibadan, Soutin and the Puzzle of Bower’s Tower
By Chimurenga on 15 September 2020 in Cash & Commerce, Chimurenga Magazine, Gaming, Systems of Governance
The jingle would survive the event, as the poetry of a battle-cry outlives a war, but that eventuality belonged in the future.
Yellow Fever, Nko?
By Chimurenga on 24 July 2020 in Cash & Commerce, Chronic, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda
Skin bleaching is often described as a manifestation of ‘colo-mentality’. However, argues Bibi Bakare-Yusuf, mimesis here is both an affirmation and a contestation of power.
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.
IN MEMORIAM: Binyavanga Wainaina (1971 – 2019)
By Chimurenga on 27 September 2019 in Books & Oration, Cash & Commerce, Chronic, Faith & Ideology, Gaming, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
A friend, a Chimurenga founding father, an award winning writer, author, journalist, chef, lover, a literary revolutionary and an inspiration. We pay tribute.
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.
“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.
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 […]
The Most Authentic Real Black Africanest Togo Soccer team Story
by Binyavanga Wainaina (photographs by Philippe Niorthe) I meet Alex at breakfast […]
How To Be A Dictator
By Chimurenga on 25 May 2019 in Cash & Commerce, Chronic, Faith & Ideology, Gaming, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
Binyavanga Wainaina presents 16 Rules for Big Man aspirations
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 […]
The Impossible Death of an African Crime Buster
By Chimurenga on 18 September 2018 in Archive, Books & Oration, Cash & Commerce, Chimurenga Library, Chronic, Media & Propaganda
Spearman… Lance Spearman – the name synonymous with the intrepid hero of […]
The Invention of Zimbabwe – New edition of Chimurenga’s Chronic available now!
By Chimurenga on 11 April 2018 in Cash & Commerce, Faith & Ideology, Media & Propaganda, News, Systems of Governance
14 November 2017. News breaks of a coup d’état underway in Zimbabwe. […]
THE BLACK BOMB
Mamadou Diallo channels Carlos Moore, the exiled Cuban who traversed most of […]
MURIMI MUNHU
Panashe Chigumadzi travels to the rural Zimbabwe of her ancestors, onto land […]
MILKING A DYING COW
Zimbabwe’s economic crises have played out in the press, in political and […]
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 […]
The New Thing: Part II*
The pretence of cultural hubs in the “world class” metropolis of Johannesburg […]
A Brief History of Fufu Pounding
The preparation of fufu is a far from the drudgery and waste of time bemoaned by the World Bank.
Jollof Diaries – A letter from the frontline
By Folakunle Oshun 30 October 2015 It was the first day of […]
Maggic Cube
These images are from photographer Adji Dieye’s series titled “Maggic Cube”, based […]
Second Transition
“Second Transition” refers to the phase of liberation struggle in South Africa […]
In Bond We Trust?
Nearly a decade on from the worst postcolonial turmoil that saw their currency devalued by thousands of percentage points, Zimbabweans have had to brace themselves as the government introduced another face-saving tender.
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 […]
Radical Rudeness
By Paula Akugizibwe In Seeing, Jose Saramago’s novel about the death of […]
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 […]
Survivor’s Guide to Smelling Naais
In the pre-Apocalypse, Zayaan Khan nurses the Apartheid hangover that carved up […]
Bread of Life
Commercial bread contains additives to accelerate production and to improve the look […]
SOMEWHERE NEAR THE BEGINNING OF THE MATCH
By Abdourahman A. Waberi* (translated by Carolyn Shread). A small coastal town on […]
The Complete Gentleman
In London Kamwendo’s interpretation of Amos Tutuola’s sly satire of spectral global capitalism […]
State vs State: The Powers Behind the MTN Nigeria Fine
When the Nigerian Communications Commission issued MTN, the South Africa-based multinational mobile […]
No Easy Truce Between Africa’s Most Powerful Brothership
By Tolu Ogunlesi On a per-person basis, South Africans drink four times […]
Dear Dr. Schwab, Queen of Jordan
By Chronic on 18 November 2015 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Cash & Commerce, Chimurenga Magazine, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda
Binyavanga Wainaina responds to an invitation to participate in Young Global Leaders 2007
Soft Power South African Style
Sean Jacobs mediates the tensions between local pleasure, global capital and cultural […]
City Building in Post-Conflict, Post-Socialist Luanda
Burying the Past with Phantasmagorias of the Future By Anne Pitcher […]
Under Nelson Mandela Boulevard
By Chronic on 4 June 2015 in Archive, Cash & Commerce, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
A Story About Cape Town’s Tanzanian Stowaways By Sean Christie Images by David […]
CHIMURENGA@20: RELUCTANTLY LOUD
By Chimurenga on 4 June 2015 in African Cities Reader, Cash & Commerce, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
Cape Town is a city with a waiting list of more than 450,000 families for low-cost housing, but delivering about 11,000 units a year and criminalising those who attempt to put up their own structures.
“We need more contact zones to create a space for critical discussion, and to propagate and exchange a continuous cultural benefit.”
A conversation between Professor Muyiwa Falaiye and Mudi Yahaya Muyiwa Falaiye: I […]
“The contemporary art in this country is flowing, but it needs direction.”
A conversation between performance artist, Jelili Atiku and former Director of the […]
The Death Metaphor
By Jahman Anikulapo A sudden burst of confusion overwhelmed the belly of the […]
Visions for the National Tear-ter of Nigeria
Four Conversations and Seven Performative Pamphlets Seven Performative Pamphlets: Ayodele Arigbabu, Hunter […]
This Sea Shall Be Uprooted
By Jumoke Verissimo Images by Adolphus Opara On the silk expanse […]
High Class Shanty Town
By Jean-Christophe Lanquetin *translated by Karen Press In Ouakam, on […]
Urban Sahara from the Sky
How Capitalism Fixes the Dunes. by Marion Broquère, Armelle Choplin, Simon Nancy Images […]
IRM de la ville de Douala
by Maud De La Chappelle To Didier À Douala, on nomme les […]
The New Reading
By Chronic on 26 May 2015 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Cash & Commerce, Chronic, Media & Propaganda
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.
The Shifting Fortunes of a Performing Poet
Post-apartheid poetry and its makers have witnessed the commodification of the art […]
Mapping The Last King of Africa
By Chronic on 19 March 2015 in Cash & Commerce, Faith & Ideology, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
This map features alongside a text by Olivier Vallée in the new […]
Bordering on Borana
by Dalle Ebrahim. It was 2011 and I was seated in a taxi […]
Pwani Si Kenya
Despite years of development promises from Kenya’s central government, the Coast remains […]
The Last King of Africa
Brother Leader, global agitator, anti-imperialist revolutionary, megalomaniacal renegade. The former Libyan leader […]
Manufacturing African Celebrity
Jesse Weaver Shipley* explores the power of celebrity in contemporary African pop culture […]
Soft Power Desire Machines and the Production of Africa Rising
By Chronic on 19 March 2015 in Arts & Pedagogy, Cash & Commerce, Faith & Ideology, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
Alongside texts by Jesse Weaver Shipley, Moses März and Oribhabor […]
Neopats and Repats
This map features in the new Chronic, an edition in which […]
Creative Industries as Underdevelopment
By Chronic on 19 March 2015 in Archive, Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Cash & Commerce, Faith & Ideology
Are the creative industries turning the tide against urban development in the […]
New Oil Old Lamps
The old Arab adage that “Cairo writes, Beirut publishes and Baghdad reads” […]
Shifting Gulfward
By Chronic on 19 March 2015 in Books & Oration, Cash & Commerce, Faith & Ideology, Media & Propaganda
The apparent demise of the millennia-old Arab cultural centres and the rapid […]
Life After Oil
Jeremy Weate explores the cultural politics of the petro-based economy in Nigeria, […]
The Bite and the Embrace
A Letter from Malabo by Recaredo Silebo Boturu. I’m writing from here in […]
New Trade Routes
This features in the new Chronic, an edition in which […]
After Oil Water
By Chronic on 18 March 2015 in Cash & Commerce, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Maps, Systems of Governance
This features in the new Chronic, an edition in which we […]
African War Machines
By Chronic on 18 March 2015 in Archive, Cash & Commerce, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
This map features in the new Chronic, an edition in which […]
The Internet is Afropolitan
Achille Mbembe discusses the history and horizon of digital communication and identity […]
Preliminary Notes for a Mediterranean Manifesto
By Chronic on 15 February 2015 in Arts & Pedagogy, Cash & Commerce, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies
Connecting ancience and modern roots/routes Rasheed Araeen redraws the boundaries and limits of identity. […]
The Story of an African Farm
By Chronic on 8 January 2015 in Arts & Pedagogy, Cash & Commerce, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda
The Chronic visits wine farms across the Boland area of the Western Cape and […]
Mining for Minds
Jean-Pierre Bekelo presents a film financing project offering payment in raw materials: “Mining for Minds”. […]
Chronic Apartheid Litigation
Ronald Suresh Roberts argues that litigation in US courts against multinational companies […]
11 YRS OF DEMONCRAZY!!!
By Chronic on 2 July 2014 in Archive, Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Cash & Commerce, Faith & Ideology, Media & Propaganda
11 YRS OF DEMONCRAZY!!! O nee Got.!! Got!!! Got!! ! I can’t […]
New Bush, Old Ghosts
Cyber crime is a burgeoning business in West Africa, despite often primitive […]
A Letter from Laura Bush
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 05:43:12 -0700 (PDT) From: “Laura Bush” <laurabush@hotmail.com> […]
A Letter from Home
By Chimurenga on 21 December 2013 in Archive, Cash & Commerce, Faith & Ideology, Systems of Governance
by E. C. Osondu My Dear Son, Why have you not been […]
Homeless in the Afterlife
Death in the diaspora remains a difficult part of the immigrant experience. […]
Birthing the American
Yemisi Aribisala explores, with mixed emotions, the enduring opportunism of a Nigerian elite that ensures that generations of children claim US birthright. Despite the assumed status that goes with being born “abroad”, the American dream, she argues, is in fact only a Nigerian backup plan.
Nothing but… Grobbelaar
A line-up of football stories wouldn’t be complete without Simon Kuper. In a […]
Altourism – Where Altruism Meets Adventure
Post Kony fall-out fatigue? Relax, pack a bag and take a break in other […]
Laugh it Off
From: “Mandisi Majavu” To: chimurenga@panafrican.co.za Subject: laugh it off/young capitalists/samething? Below is […]
Interactions: A Strategy of Difference and Repetition
Interactions Interactions is an edited excerpt from filmmaker, writer and artist Aryan […]
The Power of Wikipedia: Legitimacy and Control
The most astonishing global source of knowledge has the power to act […]
The story of a South African firm
In this edited extract from their book, Ethnicity, Inc., Jean and John […]
The First Lady Syndrome
Mama Chantal Biya Yves Mintoogue* traces the nepotism and political patronage that […]
In Defense Of The Films We Have Made
by Odia Ofeimun On the theme of Motion Picture as a tool […]
Three Men, A Fence & A Dead Body
Sean O’Toole travels to the northern reaches of Limpopo where South Africa […]
Guns, Girls and Gentle People
The Afflicted Yard proudly proclaims that it is “A non-registered member of […]
Pulp!
In the Indian hinterland, crimes of passion happen every single day, and […]
Hauling Humans: a tricky business for trans-border truckers
Veteran long-distance driver, Aden, has been witness and participant in the business […]
Itineraries
These maps by Philippe Rekacewicz show how the phenomenon of migration relates to […]
Relaxing
By Chronic on 31 May 2013 in Archive, Arts & Pedagogy, Cash & Commerce, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies
Okello Sam, a dance and theatre artist (amongst other things), examines the […]
Letters to Hillbrow
As part of a walk-in research project inspired by the novels Welcome […]
Monica Maxwell and Samson Botsotso
Scamming the scammers? Though a buzzing of charades, of tall tales, of […]
New Bushs Old Ghosts
Cyber crime is a burgeoning business in West Africa, despite often primitive […]
Migration Business is Good Business
Jean-Christophe Servant argues that while Africa is being welcomed into the pool […]
La Frontera
Klas Lundström finds himself in an isolated corner of the Amazon jungle […]
Uncertainty in Cuba after the Death of Hugo Chávez
As the world bids adiós to Hugo Chávez, Ivan García (of Desde La Habana) reports on […]
Moving ‘White Man’s Deads’ is no second hand business
With no right to protection from the states between which they trade […]
The New Normal
Oscar Pistorius first gained international fame amid a raging debate over whether prosthetic blades would give him unfair advantage against able-bodied athletes. Today, the track star finds himself in the middle of a more serious controversy: whether he intentionally shot and killed his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Both cases raise serious questions regarding humanity. Gabriella Håkansson* embarks on the slippery-slop of what defines the human.
Platinum Dreams
Anglo American’s boardrooms at 44 Main Street, Joburg, and Carlton House Terrace, […]
The Rise Of Somali Capital
The increasingly visible presence of the Somali community in Nairobi during a […]
The Quiet Encroachment of the Ordinary
Asef Bayat A traveller to Middle Eastern cities, Tehran, Cairo or Rabat […]
Juba ‘I will make my life here’
By Chronic on 13 February 2013 in Cash & Commerce, Chimurenga Magazine, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
The metronomes of ancient history, the legacy of war, the wavering prosperity of peace, impending independence and inter-ethnic tensions beat the rhythms of Juba – the new capital of Southern Sudan. Billy Kahora reports.