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NEW RELEASE! Four Stories About Music in Africa, Volume 1
By Chimurenga on 2 July 2024 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Cash & Commerce, Chimurenga Library, Chimurenganyana, Healing & bodies, Music
Festac: Idia Tales – Three Takes and a Mask*
By Chimurenga on 2 July 2024 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Cash & Commerce, Chimurenga Library, Healing & bodies, Library Book Series, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
By Dominique Malaquais and Cedric Vincent
Surviving Loss by Busisiwe Mahlangu (Impepho Press, 2018)
Mahlangu’s debut collection, written between 2015 and 2018, is undoing a house […]
pumflet ‘hophuis’
‘hophuis’ documents a series of journeys to and activations made at the […]
Taty Went West by Nikhil Singh (Kwani?, 2018)
Taty is a troubled teen running away from home. She quickly finds […]
The Colours of Our Flag by Allan K. Horwitz (Botsotso, 2016)
How many colours do we needto express the shades the nuances the […]
Ten flapping elbows, Mama by Khulile Nxumalo (Deep South, 2004)
“I have tried to be fully aware of the legacy that we […]
The Headline That Morning and Other Poems by Peter Kagayi (Soo Many Stories, 2016)
The Headline That Morning and Other poems is a poetry collection by Ugandan […]
Whiteheart: Prologue to Hysteria by Lesego Rampolokeng (Deep South, 2005)
“I’ve never celebrated nor embraced negativity in my life. Every single thing […]
When Three Sevens Clash (Mbonga Editions, 2023)
The animating impulse for the literary magazine When Three Sevens Clash was to celebrate […]
Xamissa – The Water Archives by Henk Rossouw (Akashic Books, 2018)
Xamissa is a book-length poem that sounds out the city of Cape […]
Ubuhle Bendalo Community Arts Festival
By Chimurenga on 3 February 2024 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Cash & Commerce, Chimurenga Library, Comics, Faith & Ideology, Gaming, Healing & bodies, Installations, Media & Propaganda, Music, News
16-18 February 2024
10am-10pm daily
Chimurenga Factory
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
Thursday, 09 November 2023
from 6pm.
Chimurenga Factory
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
Chimurenga Factory
Thu, 12 Oct 2023 from 6pm
LATEST CHIMURENGANYANA OUT NOW!
By Chimurenga on 20 September 2023 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chimurenga Library, Healing & bodies, Library Book Series
THE GARDEN LETTERS OF YVONNE VERA by Tadiwa Madenga
CHIMURENGANYANA: MUSIC NOTEBOOK OUT NOW!
By Chimurenga on 17 August 2023 in Arts & Pedagogy, Chimurenga Library, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Library Book Series, Music
MUSIC NOTEBOOK by Ari Sitas
CLASS STRUGGLE IN MUSIC
By Chimurenga on 14 August 2023 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chimurenga Library, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Library Book Series, Media & Propaganda, Music
Chimurenga Factory – 157 Victoria Rd, Woodstock
Thursday, 17 August 2023 from 6pm
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
LATEST IN STORE: WHEN THREE SEVENS CLASH
A collection of writing and images on Zimbabwe, edited by Percy Zvomuya
LATEST IN STORE: CHANTS, DREAMS AND OTHER GRAMMARS OF LOVE
By Chimurenga on 3 May 2023 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chimurenga Library, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda
a gedenkschrift for Harry Garuba
CHIMURENGANYANA: LA DISCOTHEQUE DE SARAH MALDOROR
By Chimurenga on 15 March 2023 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chimurenga Library, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Library Book Series, Music
This entry in our Chimurenganyana series takes the form of a mixtape […]
La Discothèque de Sarah Maldoror (tracklisting)
By Chimurenga on 14 March 2023 in Arts & Pedagogy, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Music, PASS, Research, Systems of Governance
decomposed, an-arranged, and reproduced by Ntone Edjabe
FIELD RECORDINGS WITH SHABAKA HUTCHINGS
By Chimurenga on 21 February 2023 in Arts & Pedagogy, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Music, PASS, Research
FIELD RECORDINGS
WED, 22 FEB 2023 from 6PM
A RADIO PROGRAMME ON THE LIFE AND WORK OF THE MYSTIC REVELATION OF RASTAFARI
By Chimurenga on 10 February 2023 in Arts & Pedagogy, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Music, PASS, Research
Live on PASS – 14 February 2023, from 6pm
GROUNATION – a tribute to the Mystic Revelation of Rastafari
By Chimurenga on 25 January 2023 in Arts & Pedagogy, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Music, PASS, Research
“Grounation Day” marks the landing of Emperor Selassie I in Jamaica on April 21, 1966.
Chimurenga presents GROUNATION
By Chimurenga on 25 January 2023 in Arts & Pedagogy, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Live Events, Music, PASS, Research
a tribute to the Mystic Revelation of Rastafari
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
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
Wednesday, 13 April 2022
Chimurenga Factory
6pm
You Look Illegal by Paula Ihozo Akugizibwe
By Chimurenga on 4 February 2022 in Chimurenga Library, Healing & bodies, Library Book Series, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
The latest addition to the Chimurenganyana series available now
CHIMURENGANYANA: THE FEAR AND LOATHING OUT OF HARARE BY DAMBUDZO MARECHERA (DEC 2021)
By Chimurenga on 10 December 2021 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chimurenga Library, Healing & bodies, Library Book Series, Media & Propaganda
by Dambudzo Marechera
Available now at our online store.
HOME IS WHERE THE MUSIC IS
By Chimurenga on 25 August 2021 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chimurenga Library, Library Book Series, Music
The latest addition to the Chimurenganyana series
Labour Tenants South Western Transvaal
“There’s no real vocabulary for the non-photographed of apartheid‟ – Santu Mofokeng
“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; […]
EVEN WHEN MY SOUP-CURLERS SLUR BY GEORGIA ANNE MULDROW – OUT NOW!
By Chimurenga on 17 June 2021 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chimurenga Library, Healing & bodies, Library Book Series
A limited Chimurenganyana edition of Even When My Soup-Curlers Slur, I Still Keep the Take by Georgia Anne Muldrow is now available.
RADIO MAC ON PASS – 14-21 June
By Chimurenga on 11 June 2021 in Arts & Pedagogy, Chimurenga Library, Media & Propaganda, PASS, Research, Systems of Governance
Chimurenga and Hangar (Lisbon) present Radio MAC live on PASS 14-21 June 2021, 6pm.
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.
“The Oppressor Remains What He Is”
By Chimurenga on 11 January 2021 in Books & Oration, Chimurenga Library, Library Book Series, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
Why does it seem that the genocide deniers have perked up? What […]
FESTAC 77 T-SHIRT – AVAILABLE NOW!
A limited edition of the iconic FESTAC 77 t-shirt now available.
BECOMING KWAME TURE – OUT NOW!
By Chimurenga on 21 October 2020 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chimurenga Library, Library Book Series, Media & Propaganda
Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) was viewed by many during the civil rights […]
FESTAC AT 45: FESTAC ’77, a mixtape by Chimurenga
In this mix, we decompose, an-arrange and reproduce the sound-world of FESTAC ’77 to address the planetary scale of event, alongside the personal and artistic encounters it made possible.
RIP PAPA GEORGE
By Chimurenga on 2 July 2020 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chimurenga Library, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Music, News
Exile demands contemplation because it is unavoidably real for those who experience […]
Reproducing Festac ’77: A secret among a family of millions
By Chimurenga on 29 May 2020 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chimurenga Library, Library Book Series, Media & Propaganda, News
Kwanele Sosibo speaks with Ntone Edjabe about the creation of, and thinking behind, the FESTAC ’77 publication.
Festac at 45: Steal Back the Treasure
By Chimurenga on 21 February 2020 in Arts & Pedagogy, Chimurenga Library, Library Book Series, Media & Propaganda
In pirating the head of Queen Idia to use it as a logo for Festac 77 , proposes another dissonant route that challenges the very idea of the work of art as unique object.
NEW IN BOOKSHOP
Early in 1977, thousands of artists, writers, musicians, activists and scholars from Africa and the black diaspora assembled in Lagos for FESTAC ’77, the 2nd World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture.
LEPHEPHE PRINT GATHERINGS 5 – CAPE TOWN
By Chimurenga on 19 February 2020 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chimurenga Library, Media & Propaganda, News
Calling all printmakers and paper-peoples! In collaboration with our comrades at Keleketla! […]
FESTAC 77 BOOK – OUT NOW
Early in 1977, thousands of artists, writers, musicians, activists and scholars from Africa and the black diaspora assembled in Lagos for FESTAC ’77,,, To many, too many, FESTAC sounded like cacophony – we reproduced its music on the page, decomposed and an-arranged.
Senegal & Festac 77
After New York in October 2019, and in the spirit of the trans-continentalism (aka Black World) of the event, we return to Dakar to celebrate the release of Chimurenga’s new publication on FESTAC ’77 – in collaboration with RAW Material Company.
Listen to “Sankomota: An Ode in One Album”
On 31 May, we hosted the launch of Phehello Mofokeng‘s reflective essay on Lesotho’s greatest band, Sankomota.
FESTAC 77 BOOK – Sample spreads
448 pages, colour illustrations featuring extensive unseen photographic and archival materials, interviews and new commissions.
WHO KILLED KABILA: CAST OF CHARACTERS
The cast list of actors and character who make an appearance in the issue includes everyone from Ché Guevara and psychiatrist, political theorist and Frantz Fanon, to Rashidi Muzele, the assassin who pulled the trigger and many more.
“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.
Crossroads Republic
The Nigerian superstar bandleader Fela Anikulapo-Kuti hosted a covert summit meeting in the summer of 1977.
New York, USA: 7-11 November 2015
At Performa 2015, the Chimurenga Library took the form of a library-of-people, […]
Showroom Gallery London, UK: 8 October – 21 November 2015
For the first UK presentation, Chimurenga infiltrated The Showroom’s building in the […]
San Francisco Public Library San Francisco, US: 24 May – 29 June 2014
Presented as part of the exhibition Public Intimacy, Chimurenga Library offered a simple system that […]
MU, Eindhoven, Netherlands, 21 May – 1 August 2010
Chimurenga Library exhibition at …for those who live in it: Pop-culture politics and […]
Cape Town Central Library, Cape Town: 2 May – 21 June 2009
An introspective of Chimurenga Magazine Presented in and around the Cape Town Central […]
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 […]
New Cartographies
By Chimurenga on 17 July 2019 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chimurenga Library, Chronic, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
Since its launch in 2011, every edition of The Chronic has engaged with this question: […]
PASS is going to Australia!
By Chimurenga on 6 March 2019 in Archive, Arts & Pedagogy, Chimurenga Library, Media & Propaganda, PASS, Systems of Governance
From 11 -13 April, as part of an exhibition hosted by Monash […]
FESTAC ’77 – the Book and LP soon come!
Early in 1977, thousands of artists, writers, musicians, activists and scholars from […]
Joe An Essay by Sam Kahiga June 2008
All my life, I wanted to be either a writer or a […]
Civil Lines
An Essay by Achal Prabhala At some point in the 1980s – […]
FOUR GROUND-BREAKING THINGS IN FIVE ISSUES OF CIVIL LINES OR, WAYS TO GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF THE POSTCOLONIAL SAND
an essay by Vivek Narayanan [Note: while preparing this piece, I benefited greatly […]
Black Images – An Essay by Peter James Hudson
July 2008 The premiere issue of Black Images: A Critical Quarterly of Black […]
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 Emperor of Kinshasa’s Street Comics
by Nancy Rose Hunt Beginning nearly fifty years ago, in 1968, Kinshasa […]
Spear: Canada’s Truth and Soul Magazine
by Peter James Hudson November 2010 Spear: Canada’s Truth and Soul Magazine launched […]
Staffriding the Frontline
An Essay by Lesego RampolokengMay 2008 Down from a couple years beyond […]
Staffrider
An Essay by Ivan VladislavićMarch 2008 I joined Ravan Press as a […]
Of “Brothers with Perfect Timing”
An Essay by Mike Abraham2008 Germiston station has a very long platform. […]
WHY: An Essay by Nicole Turner
Forgive me if the facts are screwed, Y days were heady and chaotic. I […]
La Colonie, Paris: 13 – 17 December 2017
Chimurenga returned to Paris for a 5-day intervention and installation at La Colonie we […]
Kallio Library, Helsinki: April 13 – May 28 2016
Can a past that the present has not yet caught up with […]
The Chimurenga Library at The Showroom, London.
For our first UK presentation, Chimurenga will infiltrate The Showroom’s building in […]
Creating Theatre: A George Hallett Photo Essay
By Chronic on 30 September 2015 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chimurenga Library, Chronic, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Music
“Exile demands contemplation because it is unavoidably real for those who experience […]