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Threatening the Hormonal Stability of Imbeciles
MSAFIRI KAFIRI – a conversation and listening Session on the roots and routes of Tanzanian hip hop with Seth Markle
Thursday, 01 August, broadcasting live from 6pm. Tune in at www.panafricanspacestation.org.za
IZIMPABANGA ZOMHLABA – Ukulalela ukufundwa kwesiqephu noNombuso Mathibela
Thursday 22 August 2024, 6pm
Chimurenga Factroy
www.panafricanspacestation.org.za
KÀDDU- THE ECHO OF DISSONANT DISCOURSE
More than a mere editorial committee, Kàddu was a research, study and experimentation group reflecting on a broad spectrum of profiles and backgrounds.
NATIONAL HEROES ACRE II & III
by Brian Chikwa, Photographs by Jekesai Njikizanava
Festac: Idia Tales – Three Takes and a Mask*
By Dominique Malaquais and Cedric Vincent
Calabash Afrobeat Poems
Dike Okoro interviews Ikwunga Wonodi
EXHIBITORS AND PARTICIPANTS
Ubuhle Bendalo Community Arts Festival plays host to the following exhibitors and participants over 16-18 February 2024.
Ubuhle Bendalo Community Arts Festival
16-18 February 2024
10am-10pm daily
Chimurenga Factory
CLASS STRUGGLE IN MUSIC
Chimurenga Factory – 157 Victoria Rd, Woodstock
Thursday, 17 August 2023 from 6pm
Notes for an Oratorio on small things that fall
Aditi Hunma reviews the launch of Notes for an Oratorio on Small Things That Fall, the latest offering from Ari Sitas
Costa Diagne et Les Hommes de la danse
par Gabrielle Chomentowski
LATEST IN STORE: CHANTS, DREAMS AND OTHER GRAMMARS OF LOVE
a gedenkschrift for Harry Garuba
REVIEW: AND THE BOOKS LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER
Harry Garuba reviews reissues of Amos Tutuola’s writings
La Discothèque de Sarah Maldoror (tracklisting)
decomposed, an-arranged, and reproduced by Ntone Edjabe
A RADIO PROGRAMME ON THE LIFE AND WORK OF THE MYSTIC REVELATION OF RASTAFARI
Live on PASS – 14 February 2023, from 6pm
CHIMURENGA@20: IN PRAISE OF INDIGENOUS AFRICAN WORDFORM
Have African literary forms been lost in a morass of European culture? For more than half a century Taban Lo Liyong has lamented thus.
THE WRITINGS OF BINYAVANGA WAINAINA
Launching a new collection of writings by the late, great Binyavanga Wainaina
LIBERATION RADIO
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
The Music Mind of Greg Tate: Sonic Syllabus for a Patternmaster
A 5-hour music selection in memory of Greg Tate on his arrival day, October 14 – live on the Pan African Space Station from 6pm SA time
CHIMURENGA@20: GENRES OF HUMAN
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
We’re proud to present a new edition of “Liberation Radio”
CHIMURENGA@20: AZANIA SALUTES TOSH
On the eve of the tenth anniversary of the death of Bantu Steve Biko, a stunned and outraged Azania heard that the Vampire had martyred Peter Tosh.
CHIMURENGA@20: ONCE THERE WERE HUMANS
In the hills above Kingston, Jamaica Annie Paul unpacks some baggage in a rare interview with Peter Abrahams, the South African-born writer and ardent Pan-Africanist.
MASELLO MOTANA’S VOCAL MUSEUM
Live at the Chimurenga Factory
IN MEMORIAM: OMOSEYE BOLAJI (1964-2022)
We remember Nigerian-born writer, Omoseye Bolaji (1964-2022), and his immense contribution to the growth of African literature in South Africa, and particularly in the Free State, where he lived.
In conversation with Omoseye Bolaji
In the Free State, the most important and pivotal figure in local black literature has been OMOSEYE BOLAJI. Pule Lechesa spoke with him about his awards, general grassroots writing in the Free State, and Black Writing in general.
CHIMURENGA@20: WHEN YOU KILL US, WE RULE!
In 1996, Keziah Jones visited Kalakuta Republic every day for a week to interview Fela Anikulapo Kuti. On the fifth day, after waiting six hours, Keziah got to speak with Fela, who he remarked kept you in “constant and direct eye contact” and spoke “in short bursts of baritone.”
LIBERATION RADIO: PEOPLE WHO THINK TOGETHER, DANCE TOGETHER #7
Conversations with Christian Nyampeta, featuring Hannah Black, Sasha Bonét, Natacha Nsabimana, Olu Oguibe and Emmanuel Olunkwa.
Live on PASS – 24-26 May 2022 – from 6pm
LIBERATION RADIO: PUNGWE 1
Selected and mixed by Robert Machiri
CHIMURENGA@20: THE WARM-UP
The xenophobic violence that swept through many communities in South Africa in 2008 was not a sudden phenomenon. Victims and an alleged instigator date the origins of this wave to a township in Pretoria, writes Kwanele Sosibo.
Launching NOTES FOR AN ORATORIO ON SMALL THINGS THAT FALL
Wednesday, 13 April 2022
Chimurenga Factory
6pm
iPhupho L’ka Biko – live at the Chimurenga Factory
Thursday, 31 March 2022
7pm
CHIMURENGA@20: A Silent Way – Routes of South African Jazz, 1946-1978
Where to begin? Which silences? There are many.
Liberation Radio: Cape Town – 15-18 March 2022
Live on PASS: 15th-18th March 2022, 3-6pm
CHIMURENGA@20: Talkin’ ‘bout Survival – The Repatriation of Reggae
Where Apartheid and broadcasters divided South Africans culturally, here comes bongo natty dread to motivate U-N-I-T-Y.
The Africans, A Radio Play in Three Acts
Worldwide premiere live on PASS – 09-11 February 2022
You Look Illegal by Paula Ihozo Akugizibwe
The latest addition to the Chimurenganyana series available now
CHIMURENGANYANA: THE FEAR AND LOATHING OUT OF HARARE BY DAMBUDZO MARECHERA (DEC 2021)
by Dambudzo Marechera
Available now at our online store.
Pieces of Dominique
The writings, translations and ideas of our dearly departed friend, comrade and co-conspirator Dominique Malaquais (1964-2021), in Chimurenga
Koltan Kills Kids
By Tsuba Ka 23 (Dominique Malaquais, Mowoso, Kongo Astronauts)
That Thing We Dreamed
By Dominique Malaquais
Rumblin’
By Dominique Malaquais
FRANTZ – A STORY OF BONES
By Dominique Malaquais
SEXING AFRICA, AGAIN – POP AS POLITICS: WATCH IT TONIGHT ON HBO
By Dominique Malaquais
Blood Money – A Douala Chronicle
By Dominique Malaquais
LINDELA (The Winnie Suite)
By Dominique Malaquais
The Franc-maçonnerie Suite
by Henri Kala-Lobe and Dominique Malaquais
PAINT THE WHITE HOUSE BLACK – A CALL TO ARMS
By Dominique Malaquais
WHO WILL SAVE THE SAVIOURS?
A close gaze at the collective apathy that killed Dr. Sebi
THIRD TRANSITION
Shoks Mzolo and Bongani Kona trace the path of South Africa’s transformation from a criminal apartheid state to a criminal neoliberal state
War and Spirits
By Kirby Mania The timing of the publication of Confession of the […]
“Angazi, but I’m sure”: A Raw Académie Session
RAW Material Company is a Dakar-based centre for art, knowledge and society; […]
Between the Lines of an Unpatriotic Presidential Pre-Recorded Address
FOURTH REPUBLIC 19 conducts a post-mortem on not-so-presidential minutes in recorded Nigerian history.
RADIO MAC ON PASS – 14-21 June
Chimurenga and Hangar (Lisbon) present Radio MAC live on PASS 14-21 June 2021, 6pm.
BLACK SUNLIGHT – A broadcast for Dambudzo Marechera on his 69th
Remember Glissant
Moses März writes of Édouard Glissant, Martinican, poet and compatriot of the more celebrated Aimé Césaire and Frantz Fanon
CHIMURENGA CHRONIC – IMAGI-NATION NWAR – OUT NOW!
A new issue of Chimurenga’s Chronic – out now. imagi-nation nwar – […]
PANAFEST, hosted by Chimurenga
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
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.
“The Oppressor Remains What He Is”
Why does it seem that the genocide deniers have perked up? What […]
Your Own Hand Sold You: Voluntary servitude in the Francafrique
In the CFA franc, the French colonial mission in West Africa found a way to ensure a paternalist and pernicious stranglehold on the economies of a vast region of the continent.
BECOMING KWAME TURE – OUT NOW!
Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) was viewed by many during the civil rights […]
THIRD CLASS CITY
South Africa thinks that India owes it one for putting Gandhi through revolution school; India thinks South Africa owes it for sending him over to show the natives how it’s done.
Where Terror Lies
The rhetoric of ‘radical’ and ‘fundamentalist’ Islam, of ‘global jihad’ and ‘terror’ is, ironically, historical and recoverable from the irrational.
African Cities Reader I: Pan-African Practices
Featuring writing and musings by Rustum Kozain, Jean-Christophe Lanquetin, Gabebab Baderoon, Karen Press and more…
African Cities Reader II: Mobilities & Fixtures
The second installment of the Reader features Sean O’Toole, David Adjaye, Vicotr Lavalle, Martin Kimani, Sherif El-Azma and more…
African Cities Reader III: Land, Property & Value
The third installment of the Reader explores the unholy trinity of land, property and value – the life force of cities everywhere. In this issue António Andrade Tomás reveals the vice and violence that permeate the act of securing land and home in Luanda;
THE POETRY OF ABBEY LINCOLN
Live from 5pm
Friday 21 August 2020
panafricanspacestation.org.za
Abbey Lincoln’s Scream: Poetic Improvisation as a Way of Life
We are standing under a glaring spotlight screaming at the tops of our lungs, from the backs of our throats which we grind together to access black blues unwords, thymus against heart, blue in green meridian, that aquamarine plexus that water and sky correct and regulate in us.
The Meaning of Being Numerous
The man who sets up the bomb is long gone before it goes off.
FESTAC AT 45: FESTAC ’77, a mixtape by Chimurenga
In this mix, we decompose, an-arrange and reproduce the sound-world of FESTAC ’77 to address the planetary scale of event, alongside the personal and artistic encounters it made possible.
Yellow Fever, Nko?
Skin bleaching is often described as a manifestation of ‘colo-mentality’. However, argues Bibi Bakare-Yusuf, mimesis here is both an affirmation and a contestation of power.
RIP PAPA GEORGE
Exile demands contemplation because it is unavoidably real for those who experience […]
They Won’t Go When I Go
A Manifesto/ Meditation on State of Black Archives in America and throughout the Diaspora by Harmony Holiday
How Third World Students Liberated the West
In a twist to mainstream tropes of radical student movements of the 1960s, and their impact on the history of political thought and action, Pedro Monaville argues that the terrains of the Third World, and particularly the history of student movements in Congo, are vital to explore if we are to makes sense of how that period informs the present.
Monumental Failures
By Dominique Malaquais
Reproducing Festac ’77: A secret among a family of millions
Kwanele Sosibo speaks with Ntone Edjabe about the creation of, and thinking behind, the FESTAC ’77 publication.
Festac at 45: Steal Back the Treasure
In pirating the head of Queen Idia to use it as a logo for Festac 77 , proposes another dissonant route that challenges the very idea of the work of art as unique object.
LEPHEPHE PRINT GATHERINGS 5 – CAPE TOWN
Calling all printmakers and paper-peoples! In collaboration with our comrades at Keleketla! […]
Urbanism Beyond Architecture – African Cities as Infrastructure
Vyjayanthi Rao, in conversation with Filip de Boeck & Abdou Maliq Simone […]
Who Kill Kabila – Angola Mix
We tune into radio trottoir, radio one battery, radio 33, boca boca to get the word on the street from Angola.
SALUT GLISSANT
“Nothing is true, everything is alive.”
Moses März, imagines a conversation between Edoaurd Glissant and Patrick Chamoiseau about the Philosophy of Relation.
IN MEMORIAM: Binyavanga Wainaina (1971 – 2019)
A friend, a Chimurenga founding father, an award winning writer, author, journalist, chef, lover, a literary revolutionary and an inspiration. We pay tribute.
Frantz Fanon’s Uneven Ribs
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.
Search Sweet Country
In conversation with Binyavanga Wainaina, Kojo Laing talks to a future Ghana by exposing its present, full of the jargons and certainties of one dimensional nation building.
“We should take out that word ‘national’ and reconstruct that word ‘theatre’….
Perfect, perfect, you have solved the problem for me, we have deconstructed the idea of National Theatre. We have taken the national and thrown it in the dust bin.
Who Killed Kabila
On January 16, 2001, in the middle of the day, shots are […]
New Cartographies
Since its launch in 2011, every edition of The Chronic has engaged with this question: […]
Who invented truth
Tired of truth, I am. And metanarratives and more truth and post colonies.
A Day in the Life of Idi Amin
The hot dry breeze is lazy. It glides languorously collecting odd bits of paper, they tease the ground, threaten to take flight, tease the ground.
Where Is This Place
Keguro Macharia asks how might one describe where One Day I Will Write About This Place lives as it travels?
How To Be A Dictator
Binyavanga Wainaina presents 16 Rules for Big Man aspirations
WHAT AFRICAN WRITERS CAN LEARN FROM CHEIKH ANTA DIOP
In a testament to Cheikh Anta Diop, Boubacar Boris Diop raises radical views on creative writing, a challenge to what he laments as our literary Sahara.
PASS is going to Australia!
From 11 -13 April, as part of an exhibition hosted by Monash […]
Neo Muyanga – The Sex For Money No Power Mixtape
PASS founder, a composer and musician Neo Muyanga highlights the currents and […]
Lindela (the winnie suite)
an excerpt from ‘Lindela (the winnie suite)’ by Dominique Malaquais car, maps, […]
The “Walking Corpse”
Thousands of Africans, physically displaced and economically disabled by postcolonial dis-order, confront […]
EVERY JOURNEY IS A READING
By Stacy Hardy My cover is easy. There are a million roles […]
FROM ORLANDO TO ORLANDO
By Roberto Alajmo Background: The ship Mendelsshon—referring to an NGO, and having […]
THE MARTYRDOM OF MAYOR ORLANDO
by Moses Marz Elected four times as mayor of Palermo over a period […]
HOLIDAY PLANNING WITH HEI VOETSEK!
And now for an important travel advisory. Planning to visit Johannesburg or […]
AT HOME WITH ZEBULON DREAD/SWAMI SITARAM
For over a decade, the man born as Elliot Josephs terrorised Cape […]
The Impossible Death of an African Crime Buster
Spearman… Lance Spearman – the name synonymous with the intrepid hero of […]
PORTRAITS OF POWER
Farai Mudzingwa writes about the power vested within the four corners of the presidential portrait, and the struggle not only to dislodge the presidential image, but also to claim it, to frame it anew.
The Invention of Zimbabwe – New edition of Chimurenga’s Chronic available now!
14 November 2017. News breaks of a coup d’état underway in Zimbabwe. […]
NONE BUT OURSELVES
The history of reggae in Zimbabwe echoes far beyond Bob Marley’s historic […]
BAHUJANAFRIQUE – A PLAUSIBLE FUTURE
Sumesh Sharma traces the circuitous roots of Afro-Asiatic history, from the world’s […]
ARMY ARRANGEMENT
News of President Robert Gabriel Mugabe’s imminent ouster from office continues to […]
Poverty is Older than Opulence
Maverick Serbian filmmaker, Emir Kusturica (Time of the Gypsies; Underground), talks with […]
Who Killed Kabila?
The Pan African Space Station/Chimurenga Library at La Colonie, Paris 13 December […]
Down the footpath
Emmanuel Iduma in conversation with photographer Akinbode Akinbiyi On a number of […]
Meeting Marti, Neruda and Langa in the streets…
Amabhulu amnyama andenzel’ i-worry, Amabhulu amanyama andenzel’ i-worry andenzel’ indlala (White-blacks are […]
Last Words to the Nation by Salvador Allende
This speech was delivered at 9:10 am on September 11, 1973, in […]
Some African Cultural Concepts By Steve Biko
This is a paper given by Steve at a conference called […]
Yahoo Boy No Laptop
Dami Ajayi celebrates the eclectic sound and success of Olamide, arguably Nigeria’s […]
The New Thing: Part II*
The pretence of cultural hubs in the “world class” metropolis of Johannesburg […]
The Sahara Is Not A Boundary
Stacy Hardy is a writer and senior editor at Chimurenga. She is […]
Maggic Cube
These images are from photographer Adji Dieye’s series titled “Maggic Cube”, based […]
No Congo, No Technology
Post-disciplinary artist, Maurice Mbikayi, was born in Kinshasa, in 1974. His country […]
In Bond We Trust?
Nearly a decade on from the worst postcolonial turmoil that saw their currency devalued by thousands of percentage points, Zimbabweans have had to brace themselves as the government introduced another face-saving tender.
Dear President Museveni
By Isaac Otidi Amuke I have debated about writing this for days, in […]
Radical Rudeness
By Paula Akugizibwe In Seeing, Jose Saramago’s novel about the death of […]
CHIMURENGA@20: NO ONE WILL SAVE YOU – REMEMBERING KENYA’S KARL MARX
Student movements in many African countries have historically confronted contradictions of colonial and post-colonial rule. In Kenya, these movements sent generations of young people into the streets, underground, into exile or death.
Pan African Activism Meets Mamdanisation
Theory and practice have been butting heads at Makerere University’s Institute of […]
How to Wear a Kitchen
Yemisi Aribisala ponders the small-minded commentary on the room best kept by […]
Nollywood Kiss
Is kissing a Nigerian habit or merely the preoccupation of neurotic French […]
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 […]
CHIMURENGA@20: SISTER OUTSIDER
Yemisi Aribisala rails against the new fundamentalism cresting the wave of global feminism sweeping Nigeria. She challenges the gender imperialism implicit in its aspiration to uniform ideas of celebrity, power, erudition and beauty.
Dear Dr. Schwab, Queen of Jordan
Binyavanga Wainaina responds to an invitation to participate in Young Global Leaders 2007
Creating Theatre: A George Hallett Photo Essay
“Exile demands contemplation because it is unavoidably real for those who experience […]
Variations on the Beautiful in the Congolese World of Sounds
by Achille Mbembe; translated by Dominique Malaquais
A Black Writer Must Write About Sex
By Danny Laferiere America owes an enormous amount to Third World youth. I’m […]
Archie Shepp’s Shirt Suggests
By Dominique Malaquais and Cédric Vincent
Rumble in the Nile
The Nimeiri era remains one of the most beguiling and contradictory in the country’s history. It defined so much of what was to come.
Islam between Françafrique and Afrabia
Needless to say, Françafrique was not the only constellation of capital and culture on offer at the time of African political independence.
Under Nelson Mandela Boulevard
A Story About Cape Town’s Tanzanian Stowaways By Sean Christie Images by David […]
CHIMURENGA@20: RELUCTANTLY LOUD
Cape Town is a city with a waiting list of more than 450,000 families for low-cost housing, but delivering about 11,000 units a year and criminalising those who attempt to put up their own structures.
“The contemporary art in this country is flowing, but it needs direction.”
A conversation between performance artist, Jelili Atiku and former Director of the […]
CHIMURENGA@20: SECULAR STORIES
Authenticity counts for something; the confidence that authenticity bestows counts for even more.
The New Reading
Some argue that the new media has forever altered our attention span, that the experience of being completely lost and absorbed, an experience they say you only got from a printed book, has disappeared.
Under the Caine Bridge
by Bwesigye bwa Mwesigire 2000 There are two rivers of Literature, so-called […]
Mapping The Last King of Africa
This map features alongside a text by Olivier Vallée in the new […]
The Last King of Africa
Brother Leader, global agitator, anti-imperialist revolutionary, megalomaniacal renegade. The former Libyan leader […]
Manufacturing African Celebrity
Jesse Weaver Shipley* explores the power of celebrity in contemporary African pop culture […]
Soft Power Desire Machines and the Production of Africa Rising
Alongside texts by Jesse Weaver Shipley, Moses März and Oribhabor […]
Pan Africanism in Katanga
In the margins of a specific history, in which land and inhabitants […]
Becoming Chimamanda’s Boy
by Oris Aigbokhaevbolo. I was part of the 2014 Farafina Creative Writing Workshop […]
All That is Solid Melts into PR
Mark Fisher speaks to Bongani Kona about the social, economic and cultural totality of late capitalism, the pervasive cynicism in which we seem to be mired, the omnipresence of PR and the possibility of countering it all by re-igniting a belief in the public good.
Operation Protective Edge
by Paul Wessels. The Goldstone Report: The Legacy of the Landmark Investigation of […]
The Undeveloped Intellectual in Zombie-land
by Ibrahim Farghali. This is Rakha’s second novel after his début, The Book […]
Men and their Dogs
by Gwen Ansell. Leonardo Padura is perhaps best known outside his native Cuba […]
Miniature Metamorphoses
by André Naffis-Sahely. In his dotage, Henry Kissinger has come to resemble Emperor […]
Which Africa Are We Talking About?
In the era of rapid globalisation the exemplary novelists seem to be […]
Shooting From Point Blank Range
Moses Serubiri turns on the television and watches the news unfold, in […]
Beneath the Underdog
Fighter, soldier, poet, arguably the PR-unit and embodiment of the Economic Freedom […]
Shifting Gulfward
The apparent demise of the millennia-old Arab cultural centres and the rapid […]
African War Machines
This map features in the new Chronic, an edition in which […]
A Brief History of Mapping
by Stacy Hardy. In 1921, the independent Polish scholar Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski […]
The Chronic Presents a New Cartography for Africa
Since its launch in 2011, every edition of The Chronic has engaged […]
The Internet is Afropolitan
Achille Mbembe discusses the history and horizon of digital communication and identity […]
Gateway
A video-work from Berni Searle‘s “Black smoke rising” trilogy; the title alluding to the […]
Alex killers are ‘proud’ of attacks on foreigners
Gcina Ntsaluba reports from where Wally Serote wrote: “When I lie on your breast […]
What Follows? The State of Black Collectivity in the Year of the Sheep
Continuing to sing a vital and urgent message of black collectivity, Harmony Holiday writes from […]
Dispatches from Beirut
Comic artist and musician Mazen Kerbaj keeps a visual diary of a week […]
The Story of an African Farm
The Chronic visits wine farms across the Boland area of the Western Cape and […]
The Alternative is at Hand
Working within the black radical tradition, Fred Moten and Stefano Harney frame a […]
Kangsen Feka Wakai Can’t Breathe
Transition are calling for responses to the latest sweep of murders by police of unarmed black […]
‘Let’s face it: we’re in over our heads. We need the white folks to come back.’
Renegade Cameroonian filmmaker and theorist Jean-Pierre Bekolo Obama pulls no punches about his disaffection […]
Beyond Oppression-Liberation-Maendeleo
by Parselelo Kantai It may have been the economist David Ndii who coined […]
Propaganda and Politics tunnel vision history of art activism in South Africa
The important contribution of the Black Consciousness Movement to art activism in […]
The New Thing
Out of the silence, the crevices, cracks and forgotten places of Cape […]
Midway Between Silence and Speech
The art and incarnation of Justine Gaga explores the multi-layered and emotionally […]
Une Hommage à Goddy Leye
With his imagination, sharp wit and all-round uncontournable wholesome beautyness, Goddy Leye has […]
Philatelic Pan Africanism
The Otolith Group, founded by Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun in 2002, uses […]
Chronic Apartheid Litigation
Ronald Suresh Roberts argues that litigation in US courts against multinational companies […]
Searching for Augusto Zita
From the Namib desert to an interrogation room on US soil, Victor Gama tracks Augusto […]
The Black Guru
Gael Reagon meets the spirit formerly known as Zebulon Dread. On Friday […]
The cosmic lives and afterlives of Zebulon Dread
byAchal Prabhala Part 1: Elliot Josephs Elliot Josephs was born in 1958 […]
11 YRS OF DEMONCRAZY!!!
11 YRS OF DEMONCRAZY!!! O nee Got.!! Got!!! Got!! ! I can’t […]
Historieda
In his letter from Agolam, Yvan Alagbé riffs off a recent visit […]
Motshumi’s Country
For more than three decades, Mogorosi Motshumi has drawn comics, cartoons and […]
Obi’s Nightmare
by Jamón y Queso translated by David Shook […]
A Brief History of Throwing Shit
by Rustum Kozain. Shit, muck, drek, kak. Faecal matter. We humans have a […]
Ready, Willing & Able
Lolade Adewuyi profiles one of the continent’s most successful football coaches – […]
Americanah and other definitions of supple citizenships
Yemisi Aribisala reads the new novel by Nigeria’s ‘woman of letters’ and encounters […]
Onitsha Republic
Uzor Maxim Uzoatu visits the sprawling city of his childhood in the […]
Altourism – Where Altruism Meets Adventure
Post Kony fall-out fatigue? Relax, pack a bag and take a break in other […]
Laugh it Off
From: “Mandisi Majavu” To: chimurenga@panafrican.co.za Subject: laugh it off/young capitalists/samething? Below is […]
The Power of Wikipedia: Legitimacy and Control
The most astonishing global source of knowledge has the power to act […]
The First Lady Syndrome
Mama Chantal Biya Yves Mintoogue* traces the nepotism and political patronage that […]
Manufacturing the post-election peace: A reporter’s 2013 election diary
Parselelo Kantai watches as NGOs, the media and the state rally together […]
Dance of the Infidels presents: Nollywood Confidential
starring: Zeb Ejiro, Ajoke Jacobs, Tunde Kelani, and Aquila Njamah Andy learned […]
Authority Stealing: The business of crime writing in Kenya, India and Nigeria
Kenya In pursuit of some scriptwriter talent, Billy Kahora discovers that […]
A Fieldguide for Female Interrogators
by Coco Fusco (illustrations: Dan Turner) This graphic story previously […]
Call for an Archive of AfroSonics
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.
Is Biko’s legacy being besmirched?
In October 2002, 25 years since Stephen Bantu Biko‘s death, poet James Matthews penned […]