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Paris-Algiers, Underground Class
by Mustapha Benfodil It’s romance landed me this job. I am a mailman […]
I Travel with the Dead
Sudirman Adi Makmur spends an inordinate amount of time alone or in the […]
The Last Angel of History
Filmmaker, theorist and co-founder of the Black Audio Film Collective (BAFC) John […]
Setting The Pace is a Small Town’s Big Business
The ‘mystique’ of the Kenyan long-distance runner is to be found not […]
Even the Dead
Jeremy Cronin reports of corrupt apartheid-era games; questioning our (in)ability to remember the […]
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 […]
A Three Point Shot from Andromeda
When not teaching white boy’s how to shuffle, acting Tuff, or fixing […]
A Corpse and its Jurisdiction – a letter from Lagos
By Chimurenga on 8 October 2013 in Archive, Books & Oration, Healing & bodies, Systems of Governance
Akin Adesokan tropes on the detective genre after he stumbles on an […]
George Osodi
George Osodi is a photographer from “the oil-rich Niger Delta region”. His images […]
Lagos: A Pilgrimage in Notations
Having lived away from Nigeria for most of his adult life – […]
Che
First published in 1968 in Buenos Aires, the biography of Ernesto “Che” […]
Death by Memory [of Freedom]; Truth & Reconciliation
By Chronic on 5 August 2013 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Healing & bodies, Systems of Governance
A tryptych in honour of Steve Biko. Firstly, Graeme Arendse, as his alter-ego Ramgee, presents In […]
Howl Marikana
Announcing his intentions with a howl that echoes Ginsberg, Aryan Kaganof offers […]
Who’s Free, Who’s Not, Who Was, Who Wasn’t, and Who’s Dead: And, Are You Sure You Know Which Way Is Up?
A Letter from Istanbul by Ed Pavlic Trayvon remains underground, to my […]
Suspect Sammy
A Letter from Toronto by Andrea Meeson It’s another Monday morning after […]
Memento Mori
A Letter from Harlem by Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts. When I came home from abroad, […]
Name Death & Text
Achille Mbembe unpicks the assassination, disfigurement, and attempted degrading of Ruben Um Nyobè. Ruben Um […]
Damballah
Audio/visuals from AfroSonics-sis, Harmony Holiday, originally produced for Fence Books‘ podcast series. “Loose Tracklist” Weldon […]
Dead Cow Spreads Fear and Rumour in Lagos Suburb
Jide Adebayo Begun reports from Lagos. On 9 May the residents of […]
Everyday is for the Thief
An excerpt from Teju Cole‘s novella exploring the spectrum of crimes, wrongdoings, misdemeanours, International […]
WHO’S CALLING?
Parker Bilal is the pen-name of Jamal Mahjoub. Born in London and […]
Who Killed Christopher Okigbo
1.Night/Outside At sea. Mythic times There is a storm. We see wooden […]
Guns, Girls and Gentle People
The Afflicted Yard proudly proclaims that it is “A non-registered member of […]
Pulp!
In the Indian hinterland, crimes of passion happen every single day, and […]
Hauling Humans: a tricky business for trans-border truckers
Veteran long-distance driver, Aden, has been witness and participant in the business […]
Itineraries
These maps by Philippe Rekacewicz show how the phenomenon of migration relates to […]
The Road To Wellville
The Institute of Naturopathy and Yogic Sciences occupies some seventy acres of […]
Body Paths
The city, for many African immigrants, offers a horizon of hope, but […]
The way back home
There are many ways back home. In South African novelist Niq Mhlongo‘s […]
The Way Back Home Article
The Way Back Home On the death of a close relative, Niq […]
Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989)
Photographs by Rotimi Fani-Kayode. These photos first appeared in print in Chimurenga Vol. 4: Black […]
We Used To Dance
Sandile Dikeni reviews We Used To Dance, an album from Andile Yenana. Listen. […]
Relaxing
By Chronic on 31 May 2013 in Archive, Arts & Pedagogy, Cash & Commerce, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies
Okello Sam, a dance and theatre artist (amongst other things), examines the […]
Moses’ outro
Does life begin at 40? That’s the time signature Moses Taiwa Molelekwa […]
Bajove Dokotela
By Chronic on 14 April 2013 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chimurenga Magazine, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies
Let the good Dr [Philip Tabane] inject you in three ways; music, words, video. Records for Bajove Dokotela mix selected and blended by Ntone Edjabe, quotes from Sello Edwin Galane’s thesis.
Call for an Archive of AfroSonics
By Chimurenga on 13 April 2013 in Archive, Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chronic, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Music, PASS
The collective improvisations of black America – and their profound impact on poetry and sound – are near impossible to find in the annals of US academe. In fact, their absence is as stark as the control of archiving is white, writes Harmony Holiday.
Notes Towards A Question of Power
Pieces, notes really, fragmentary speculations,remnants, a sense of the feminine under assault, […]
EU fortifies its mission on North African frontline
Supported by Libya and Tunisia, the European Union is ringing the Mediterranean […]
Secret Cities
Göran Dahlberg writes that cities in and of themselves are becoming more […]
Did You Kiss the Dead Body?
Two in one: firstly Rajkamal Kahlon introduces her project, Did You Kiss the Dead Body?, then […]
Moving ‘White Man’s Deads’ is no second hand business
With no right to protection from the states between which they trade […]
52 Niggers
By Stacy Hardy. Julius Eastman had a way of walking. He had […]
The Test
By Chimurenga on 9 March 2013 in Archive, Books & Oration, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
Read the following text carefully: “Know thyself, thus says the quotation […]
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.
Our cyborg past: Medieval artificial memory as mindware upgrade
By Ruth Evans The philosopher and cognitive scientist Andy Clark has […]
Les Saignantes
A young woman, beautiful, 20-something, is fucking […]
Yellow Fever, NKO?
Skin bleaching is often described as a manifestation of ‘colo-mentality’. However, argues […]
Do Right Women: Black Women, Eroticism and Classic Blues
By Kalamu ya Salaam 1. I’m going to show you […]
Fish Soup As Love Potions
Yemisi Aribisala lives in Calabar in Cross River State, where the scent […]