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Category: Chimurenganyana

CHIMURENGANYANA: FOREST NOTEBOOKS – MARIO LEWIS

How could my art, born from an intimate engagement with ecology, exist within a system that so often exploits the very land it depends on? …

FOREST NOTEBOOKS LAUNCH OF THE ECHO-LOGIES SERIES

Thursday, 08 May from 8pm

THIS WAY I SALUTE YOU – a gathering for Keorapetse Kgositsile

The launch of two long-awaited books on our dearly departed teacher. Thursday, Jan 30 from 6pm at Chimurenga Factory, 157 Victoria Road, Woodstock, Cape Town.

The New Thing

The Chimurenganyana Boxset volume 1, a handmade collection of rhythmic importance.

NEW RELEASE! Four Stories About Music in Africa, Volume 1

a limited edition handmade box set featuring four publications from our Chimurenganyana series

the breathers cover

Breather’s Night

I love you,
I put my hands over your eyes
I bind you
to my blood

LAUNCHING THE BREATHERS – THE LATEST IN THE CHIMURENGANYANA SERIES

We are pleased to be launching the latest addition to the Chimurenganyana series, The Breathers, a collaborative long poem by Daniel Borzutzky and Stacy Hardy.

Tuesday, 28 May 2024 at Chimurenga Factory from 6pm

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Chimurenganyana: The Breathers, A Collaborative Long Poem By Daniel Borzutzky And Stacy Hardy (May 2024)

The Breathers is an attempt to experiment with ways to document both the suppression of breath caused by capitalism, and the liberation of breath, or, the mere act of breathing as a form of political resistance …

the breathers cover

The Breathers, a collaborative long poem by Daniel Borzutzky and Stacy Hardy

Latest Chimurenganyana Now Available in Stores!

You Look Illegal

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

Chimurenganyana: The Garden Letters of Yvonne Vera by Tadiwa Madenga (Sep 2023)

In this monograph, Tadiwa Madenga travels to Bulawayo to retrace Yvonne Vera’s life and works through her letters, columns, novels, gallery curations, and her former homes.

Chimurenganyana: La Discotheque De Sarah Maldoror (March 2023)

decomposed, an-arranged and reproduced by Ntone Edjabe

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

Chimurenganyana: Home Is Where The Music Is by Uhuru Phalafala (September 2021)

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.

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

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.

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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