Launching a new collection of writings by the late, great Binyavanga Wainaina
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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
LIBERATION RADIO
By Chimurenga on 15 November 2022 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Cash & Commerce, Faith & Ideology, Gaming, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, PASS, Systems of Governance
an ongoing query on knowledge production via African sound worlds, and long-term research on broadcasting and cultural initiatives by liberation movements across the continent
LIBERATION RADIO: MASELLO MOTANA’S VOCAL MUSEUM
By Chimurenga on 26 October 2022 in Arts & Pedagogy, Gaming, Healing & bodies, Live Events, Music, PASS
The latest episode in the Stories About Music in Africa series, now available
CHIMURENGA@20: GENRES OF HUMAN
By Chimurenga on 19 September 2022 in Arts & Pedagogy, Chronic, Gaming, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
In his book, The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black Technopoetics, Louis Chude-Sokei samples freely from history, music, literature and science, conjuring new meanings from dead texts, to build an echo chamber where the discourses of race and technology collide
LIBERATION RADIO
By Chimurenga on 8 August 2022 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Cash & Commerce, Faith & Ideology, Gaming, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Music, PASS, PASS Pop Up, Systems of Governance
We’re proud to present a new edition of “Liberation Radio”
CHIMURENGA@20: STICKFIGHTING DAYS
Everyone knows I’m a two-stick man. But, I’m not ready to go up against Markham again just yet. Or any of the other top stickfighters. I’ve been trying some new moves. I feel close to a breakthrough in terms of technique. But it’s not quite there
Liberation Radio: Cape Town – 15-18 March 2022
By Chimurenga on 10 March 2022 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Cash & Commerce, Faith & Ideology, Gaming, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, PASS, Systems of Governance
Live on PASS: 15th-18th March 2022, 3-6pm
Ready, Willing & Able
Lolade Adewuyi profiles one of the continent’s most successful football coaches – the Big Boss, as he is widely referred to – and considers the arguments for more faith, more respect and more investment in the abilities of home-grown trainers.
Pieces of Dominique
By Chimurenga on 19 October 2021 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Cash & Commerce, Faith & Ideology, Gaming, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
The writings, translations and ideas of our dearly departed friend, comrade and co-conspirator Dominique Malaquais (1964-2021), in Chimurenga
Rumblin’
By Chimurenga on 18 October 2021 in Arts & Pedagogy, Chimurenga Magazine, Faith & Ideology, Gaming, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
By Dominique Malaquais
Translating Tram 83
Roland Glasser meets author Fiston Mwanza Mujila in Paris while getting to […]
War and Spirits
By Kirby Mania The timing of the publication of Confession of the […]
“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; […]
The poetics of Futbol
The Touch It would have to be a bird, stilled on a […]
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.
POVERTY IS OLDER THAN OPULENCE
By Chimurenga on 12 January 2021 in Chimurenga Magazine, Gaming, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda
Diego Maradona is the man who exploded the shame of the entire world in June 1986, in an historic dribble during a match between Argentina and England.
Ibadan, Soutin and the Puzzle of Bower’s Tower
By Chimurenga on 15 September 2020 in Cash & Commerce, Chimurenga Magazine, Gaming, Systems of Governance
The jingle would survive the event, as the poetry of a battle-cry outlives a war, but that eventuality belonged in the future.
IN MEMORIAM: Binyavanga Wainaina (1971 – 2019)
By Chimurenga on 27 September 2019 in Books & Oration, Cash & Commerce, Chronic, Faith & Ideology, Gaming, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
A friend, a Chimurenga founding father, an award winning writer, author, journalist, chef, lover, a literary revolutionary and an inspiration. We pay tribute.
Who invented truth
By Chimurenga on 27 May 2019 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chimurenga Magazine, Faith & Ideology, Gaming, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda
Tired of truth, I am. And metanarratives and more truth and post colonies.
The Most Authentic Real Black Africanest Togo Soccer team Story
by Binyavanga Wainaina (photographs by Philippe Niorthe) I meet Alex at breakfast […]
How To Be A Dictator
By Chimurenga on 25 May 2019 in Cash & Commerce, Chronic, Faith & Ideology, Gaming, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
Binyavanga Wainaina presents 16 Rules for Big Man aspirations
Zidane’s Melancholy
Zidane watched the Berlin sky, not thinking of anything, a white sky […]
Poverty is Older than Opulence
By Chimurenga on 23 January 2018 in Faith & Ideology, Gaming, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
Maverick Serbian filmmaker, Emir Kusturica (Time of the Gypsies; Underground), talks with […]
Zinedine Zidane and and the event of the secret
By Chimurenga on 23 January 2018 in Arts & Pedagogy, Chimurenga Magazine, Faith & Ideology, Gaming, Systems of Governance
Grant Farred produces a Derridean reading of Zidane’s world-stopping head butt.
To Defend and to Question
By Chimurenga on 23 January 2018 in Archive, Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Gaming, Systems of Governance
Zinedine Zidane has described him as “the greatest footballer of all” and […]
Zidane, a 21st century portrait
Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parenno’s ambitious 2006 cinematic collaboration, Zidane, a 21st […]
A master of bling with feline style
Writing just after the 2011 Africa Cup of Nations, Achille Mbembe* looks […]
POLITRICKS IN THE STADIUM
Melanie Boehi discusses how, for politicians, sports tournaments such as the upcoming […]
SOMEWHERE NEAR THE BEGINNING OF THE MATCH
By Abdourahman A. Waberi* (translated by Carolyn Shread). A small coastal town on […]
Why Ethiopia won the World Cup in 2034
Deji Bryce Olukotun recalls the arc of history-in-the-making that results in a […]
Sports Chatter
Simon Kuper discusses the drivel in the drip-feed that is mainstream sports […]
The Lexicon of Love
The language of football is arguably nowhere more verbose and loquacious than […]
Writing Football
By Juan Villoro It’s unlikely you’ll be a fan of any sport […]
The Invention of African Football
Moses März documents his fleeting orbit of the “African” football scene, from […]
Fighting Shadows
Lidudumalingani Mqombothi hails from a place where the game of ukuqula is […]
Rumblin’
By Dominique Malaquais Tell It To The World April 1st 1974.[1] Before […]
Shift The Goalposts Of Disadvantage
By Simon Kuper Every year, in an election you may have missed, […]
Ready, Willing and Able
Lolade Adewuyi profiles one of the continent’s most successful football coaches – […]
Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea and Ghana Dominate Women’s Football
In a brief history of women’s football on the continent, Shina Oludari […]
‘YOU DON’T GET PAID FOR SOCCER IN SOUTH AFRICA’
Playing football at the highest level in South Africa requires as much […]
Roger and Me
Akin Adesokan writes in exaltation of the game of tennis, the sheer […]
Boyhood and Transit
Reliving his personal journey to developing a passion for the game, Bongani […]
New Trade Routes
This features in the new Chronic, an edition in which […]
Floyd Mayweather and Improvised Modalities of Rhythm
by Steve Coleman What makes boxing the sweet science is not two […]
A History of Blacks on the Green
In an attempt to dispel the myth that renders black golfers as […]
Setting The Pace is a Small Town’s Big Business
The ‘mystique’ of the Kenyan long-distance runner is to be found not […]
Fuzzy Goo’s Guide (to the Earth)
Playing with words, the original Black Heretic Insider Dambudzo Marechera writes his own rulebook […]
Even the Dead
Jeremy Cronin reports of corrupt apartheid-era games; questioning our (in)ability to remember the […]
Nothing but… Grobbelaar
A line-up of football stories wouldn’t be complete without Simon Kuper. In a […]
Banyana Banyana
As footballers and coaches typically spiel, it’s a game of two halves. […]
Ready, Willing & Able
Lolade Adewuyi profiles one of the continent’s most successful football coaches – […]
Shoes
Shoeless and bible blacked, Sandile Dikeni recounts childhood kickabouts on uneven playing fields […]
You’re… Terminated
Under the parental shadow of Table Mountain, children play on the streets […]
Stickfighting Days
A good sport? Olufemi Terry summons up the spirit of (K.Sello Duiker’s) Ah-zoo-ray […]
Language Games
For poet Karen Press opposites are already united; they depend on each […]
The New Normal
Oscar Pistorius first gained international fame amid a raging debate over whether prosthetic blades would give him unfair advantage against able-bodied athletes. Today, the track star finds himself in the middle of a more serious controversy: whether he intentionally shot and killed his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Both cases raise serious questions regarding humanity. Gabriella Håkansson* embarks on the slippery-slop of what defines the human.
If you want to see the African Game go to a Stadium
Knox Robinson If you want to see the African Game go to […]