A Manifesto/ Meditation on State of Black Archives in America and throughout the Diaspora by Harmony Holiday
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They Won’t Go When I Go
By Chronic on June 29, 2020 in Arts & Pedagogy, Book Series, Books & Oration, Chimurenga Library, Faith & Ideology, Featured, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Music, PASS, Video
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.
Frantz Fanon’s Uneven Ribs
By Chronic on September 7, 2019 in Books & Oration, Featured, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
For me knowledge is very powerful. Any knowledge has claws and teeth. If you don’t see the teeth and the claws then it is useless, then somebody has emasculated it.
Genres of the Human
In his new book, The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black […]
The Tyelera Moment
By Chronic on December 8, 2018 in Faith & Ideology, Featured, Healing & bodies, Systems of Governance
by Thabo Jijana On December 13, 2016, in Salem Party Club v […]
Lindela (the winnie suite)
an excerpt from ‘Lindela (the winnie suite)’ by Dominique Malaquais car, maps, […]
Chronic Circulations Bibliography
The new addition of the Chronic asks: What is the African imagination […]
TO REFUSE THAT WHICH HAS BEEN REFUSED TO YOU
By Chronic on October 19, 2018 in Archive, Arts & Pedagogy, Cash & Commerce, Featured, Healing & bodies, Systems of Governance
Fred Moten and Saidiya Hartman sit down to talk about the temporal […]
THINGS THAT GO IN AND OUT OF THE BODY
How can we think about bodies and circulation without deferring to the […]
HOLIDAY PLANNING WITH HEI VOETSEK!
By Chronic on September 20, 2018 in Arts & Pedagogy, Featured, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
And now for an important travel advisory. Planning to visit Johannesburg or […]
Writing Nervous By Brian Chikwava
One can argue that great literary works are rarely about good sentences […]
The Making of the Impossible
Review by GWEN ANSELL October: The story of the Russian revolution China […]
NONE BUT OURSELVES
By Chronic on April 9, 2018 in Arts & Pedagogy, Faith & Ideology, Featured, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
The history of reggae in Zimbabwe echoes far beyond Bob Marley’s historic […]
Dansons Donc le Zouglou
By Henri-Michel Yere Déscolarisé In 1980s Côte d’Ivoire, exclusion from the schooling […]
Variations on the Beautiful in the Congolese World of Sounds
By Achille Mbembe Throughout the second half of the twentieth century, Congolese […]
Islam between Françafrique and Afrabia
By Wendell Hassan Marsh Upon his invasion of Egypt in 1798, Napoleon had […]
Not only our land but also our souls
Andile Mngxitama challenges historical and contemporary rhetoric that positions land theft in […]
Name Death & Text
Achille Mbembe unpicks the assassination, disfigurement, and attempted degrading of Ruben Um Nyobè. Ruben Um […]