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Threatening the Hormonal Stability of Imbeciles
By Chronic on 20 August 2024 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chimurenga Books, Media & Propaganda
Senselessness
“I am not complete in the mind.” So begins the first of exiled Honduran novelist Moya’s novels
THIS THING CALLED SOUL MUSIC
By Chimurenga on 1 August 2024 in Archive, Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chimurenga Books, Music
…There is nothing like art – in the oppressor’s sense of art. There is only movement. Force. Creative power.
IZIMPABANGA ZOMHLABA – Ukulalela ukufundwa kwesiqephu noNombuso Mathibela
By Chimurenga on 1 August 2024 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chimurenga Books, Chimurenga Library, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
Thursday 22 August 2024, 6pm
Chimurenga Factroy
www.panafricanspacestation.org.za
THE USEFULNESS OF FORGETTING
he didn’t “imagine” that he had an arm – he knew full well that it was removed, but…he “vividly” felt its presence
A DREAMSCAPE OF ASTONISHMENT
Look at us! We have overcome apartheid! We have not walked through minefields and lost limbs or died, but we have overcome apartheid!
THE FASTEST TITLER IN AMERICA
Je suis un écrivain Japonais (I Am a Japanese Writer)
BUILDING THE HOUSE OF LIFE
Ayi Kwei Armah traces the contour of an old conflict and a lifelong struggle for the birth of the beautyful ones.
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 and autobiography, […]
Cover Story
He’s been described as the “founding father of African literature”, an author […]
CHIMURENGA@20: ONCE THERE WERE HUMANS
By Chimurenga on 18 July 2022 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chimurenga Books, 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.