They Won’t Go When I Go

A Manifesto/ Meditation on State of Black Archives in America

How Third World Students Liberated the West

In a twist to mainstream tropes of radical student movements

Monumental Failures

By Dominique Malaquais

Remembering Biafra

In 1968, Nigeria's finance minister, agricultural produce mogul Obafemi Awolowo

Wrestling With A Warlord

Louis Chude-Sokei narrates a story of Nigeria, of splintered identity,

Who Kill Kabila – Angola Mix

We tune into radio trottoir, radio one battery, radio 33,

SALUT GLISSANT

“Nothing is true, everything is alive.” Moses März, imagines a

IN MEMORIAM: Binyavanga Wainaina (1971 – 2019)

A friend, a Chimurenga founding father, an award winning writer,

The Chronic: Who Killed Kabila

This issue of the Chronic presents this query as the

LISTEN: SONGS FOR WINNIE BY A SEMBLANCE

LIVE ON PASS Thursday, 14 May 2026 from 7pm

POETS WITH GUNS: A CONVERSATION WITH CHIRIKURE CHIRIKURE

Achebe The Native Intellectual

It’s only a matter of acceleration now

Join Binyavanga Wainaina as he contemplates swimming, cosmology ...and interviews

WRITING AS AN ACT OF GENEROSITY

Mamadou Diallo reviews the state of language in Africa through

WHAT AFRICAN WRITERS CAN LEARN FROM CHEIKH ANTA DIOP

In a testament to Cheikh Anta Diop, Boubacar Boris Diop

The Pharaoh’s New Clothes

Its location, vocation, and publication intended to speak to a

How Could You Believe A Story Like That?

Stacy Hardy reviews Roberto Bolaño's 'Nazi Literature in the Americas'

WHY MUST A CHINESE WRITER WRITE ABOUT SEX

Robert Berold reviews Zhu Wen's 'I Love Dollars and Other