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Category: Library Book Series

Festac: Idia Tales – Three Takes and a Mask*

By Dominique Malaquais and Cedric Vincent

LATEST CHIMURENGANYANA OUT NOW!

THE GARDEN LETTERS OF YVONNE VERA by Tadiwa Madenga

CHIMURENGANYANA: MUSIC NOTEBOOK OUT NOW!

MUSIC NOTEBOOK by Ari Sitas

Chimurenganyana: Music Notebook by Ari Sitas (Aug 2023)

Music Notebook is at once a scrapbook, a bildungsroman, a playlist and a diary of Ari Sitas’ decade-long collaboration with the Insurrections Ensemble.

CLASS STRUGGLE IN MUSIC

Chimurenga Factory – 157 Victoria Rd, Woodstock
Thursday, 17 August 2023 from 6pm

Chimurenganyana: La Discotheque De Sarah Maldoror (March 2023)

decomposed, an-arranged and reproduced by Ntone Edjabe

CHIMURENGANYANA: LA DISCOTHEQUE DE SARAH MALDOROR

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

A mediation on skin, violence, and the limits of citizenship in a country where black lives have long been brutally (mis)handled.

Chimurenganyana: The Fear and Loathing Out of Harare by Dambudzo Marechera (Dec 2021)

A selection of never-published essays by Dambudzo Marechera with an afterword by writer Tinashe Mushakavanhu

You Look Illegal by Paula Ihozo Akugizibwe

The latest addition to the Chimurenganyana series available now

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

by Dambudzo Marechera

Available now at our online store.

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

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, I Still Keep the Take by Georgia Anne Muldrow is now available.

EVEN WHEN MY SOUP-CURLERS SLUR BY GEORGIA ANNE MULDROW – OUT NOW!

A limited Chimurenganyana edition of Even When My Soup-Curlers Slur, I Still Keep the Take by Georgia Anne Muldrow is now available.

“The Oppressor Remains What He Is”

FESTAC 77 T-SHIRT – AVAILABLE NOW!

A limited edition of the iconic FESTAC 77 t-shirt now available.

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

BECOMING KWAME TURE – OUT NOW!

Reproducing Festac ’77: A secret among a family of millions

Kwanele Sosibo speaks with Ntone Edjabe about the creation of, and thinking behind, the FESTAC ’77 publication.

Festac at 45: Steal Back the Treasure

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.

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.

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.

FESTAC 77 BOOK – Sample spreads

448 pages, colour illustrations featuring extensive unseen photographic and archival materials, interviews and new commissions.

FESTAC 77 BOOK (Oct 2019)

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. With a radically ambitious agenda underwritten by Nigeria’s newfound oil wealth, FESTAC ’77 would unfold as a complex, glorious and excessive culmination of a half-century of transatlantic and pan-Africanist cultural-political gatherings.

Who Killed Kabila

MOLOTOV COCKTAIL

The Chronic: Who Killed Kabila II

On January 16, 2001, in the middle of the day, shots are heard in the Palais de Marbre,the residence of President Laurent-Désiré Kabila. The road bordering the presidential residence, usually closed from 6pm by a simple guarded barrier is blocked by tanks.

Who Killed Kabila I

The Chimurenga Library is a research platform that seeks to re-imagine the library as a laboratory for extended curiosity, new adventures, critical thinking, daydreaming, socio-political involvement, partying and random perusal.

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

Chimurenganyana: Rumblin’ by Dominique Malaquais (June 2012)

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

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

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

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

Chimurenganyana: 52 Niggers by Stacy Hardy (June 2012)

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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