… regardless of where you came from in Nigeria, Fela was perfectly understandable … he was a prophet bearing an important message. But he was also a most improbable prophet
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SANKOFA – A Conversation and Listening Session with King Tha
Monday 22 July, from 6pm. Tune in at www.panafricanspacestation.org.za
The New Thing
The Chimurenganyana Boxset volume 1, a handmade collection of rhythmic importance.
NEW RELEASE! Four Stories About Music in Africa, Volume 1
By Chimurenga on 2 July 2024 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Cash & Commerce, Chimurenga Library, Chimurenganyana, Healing & bodies, Music
a limited edition handmade box set featuring four publications from our Chimurenganyana series
Unchain the art
Gwen Ansell maps the distance between words and music, fiction and autobiography, […]
LISTEN: ‘WAR CHORALE’ BY BHEKI KHOZA
‘War Chorale’, composed and directed by Bheki Khoza is a musical exploration into the slipperiness of history, love and memory, and the nearly invisible line that separates fiction from reality.
BHEKI KHOZA TRIO
Friday, 26 April 2024 – 7pm
Chimurenga factory
Woza Moya
Maakomele R. Manaka revisits a soundtrack of his dreams, long and rhythmic […]
LISTEN: A TRIBUTE TO KELAN PHIL COHRAN
Compiled by Guilty, covering the breadth of Kelan Phil Cohran’s musical journey
Heliacal Rising of Sothis – a celebration of Kelan Phil Cohran
Wednesday, 08 May 2024 from 8pm
Chimurenga Factory (157 Victoria Rd, Woodstock)
AFRICAN DAY – a listening session with Tete Mbambisa
Wednesday, 27 March 2024 from 7pm
Chimurenga Factory
Calabash Afrobeat Poems
By Chimurenga on 8 March 2024 in Arts & Pedagogy, Media & Propaganda, Music, PASS, Systems of Governance, Video
Dike Okoro interviews Ikwunga Wonodi
SESASEDI SA TSODIO / SA KOŠA KE LEROLE: a screening of two film-essays
a screening of two-film essays
Friday, 15 March 2024 from 7pm
Chimurenga Factory
MoRa: Mogorosi meets Rampolokeng with ensemble live recording
22 March 2024
6pm
Chiesa Dipazzo Lupi, Melville
EXHIBITORS AND PARTICIPANTS
By Chimurenga on 13 February 2024 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Comics, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Music, PASS
Ubuhle Bendalo Community Arts Festival plays host to the following exhibitors and participants over 16-18 February 2024.
Ubuhle Bendalo Community Arts Festival
By Chimurenga on 3 February 2024 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Cash & Commerce, Chimurenga Library, Comics, Faith & Ideology, Gaming, Healing & bodies, Installations, Media & Propaganda, Music, News
16-18 February 2024
10am-10pm daily
Chimurenga Factory
A Phyllis Hyman Selection, 1976-1982
by Pierre Crépon
The Forest and the Zoo
Johnny Dyani offers a method to the Skanga (black music family) in this extended conversation with Aryan Kaganof. Photographs by George Hallett.
A LIVE BROADCAST WITH DAMOLA OLOWADE
Friday, 24 November
7pm
Tune in at panafricanspacestation.org.za
HOPHUIS: A SITE OF DANCE AND SOLIDARITY
By Chimurenga on 3 November 2023 in Arts & Pedagogy, Cash & Commerce, Chimurenga Library, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Indie Books, Music
Thursday, 09 November 2023
from 6pm.
Chimurenga Factory
LIBERATION RADIO: MEDU ARTS ENSEMBLE
The music unit of Medu Arts Ensemble consisted of two bands, Shakawe and Kalahari
LIBERATION RADIO: BOKANI DYER’S RADIO SECHABA
Chimurenga Factory
30 September
7pm
EPISTROPHIES
By Chimurenga on 5 September 2023 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Healing & bodies, Music, PASS
Saturday, 16 September 2023 from 6pm
Chimurenga Factory (157 Victoria Rd, Woodstock)
CHIMURENGANYANA: MUSIC NOTEBOOK OUT NOW!
By Chimurenga on 17 August 2023 in Arts & Pedagogy, Chimurenga Library, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Library Book Series, Music
MUSIC NOTEBOOK by Ari Sitas
CLASS STRUGGLE IN MUSIC
By Chimurenga on 14 August 2023 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chimurenga Library, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Library Book Series, Media & Propaganda, Music
Chimurenga Factory – 157 Victoria Rd, Woodstock
Thursday, 17 August 2023 from 6pm
You Ain’t Gonna Know Me ‘Cos You Think You Know Me
a gathering ‘n broadcast for our dearly departed brother Malesela Joey Modiba (1986-2023)
AZANIA EP LISTENING SESSION
Chimurenga Factory – Fri, 07 July 2023 from 6pm
CHIMURENGA PRESENTS SOCIAL BREATH
a collective improvisation
16 June 2023
LATEST IN STORE: WHEN THREE SEVENS CLASH
A collection of writing and images on Zimbabwe, edited by Percy Zvomuya
CHIMURENGANYANA: LA DISCOTHEQUE DE SARAH MALDOROR
By Chimurenga on 15 March 2023 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chimurenga Library, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Library Book Series, Music
This entry in our Chimurenganyana series takes the form of a mixtape […]
La Discothèque de Sarah Maldoror (tracklisting)
By Chimurenga on 14 March 2023 in Arts & Pedagogy, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Music, PASS, Research, Systems of Governance
decomposed, an-arranged, and reproduced by Ntone Edjabe
FIELD RECORDINGS WITH SHABAKA HUTCHINGS
By Chimurenga on 21 February 2023 in Arts & Pedagogy, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Music, PASS, Research
FIELD RECORDINGS
WED, 22 FEB 2023 from 6PM
A RADIO PROGRAMME ON THE LIFE AND WORK OF THE MYSTIC REVELATION OF RASTAFARI
By Chimurenga on 10 February 2023 in Arts & Pedagogy, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Music, PASS, Research
Live on PASS – 14 February 2023, from 6pm
GROUNATION – a tribute to the Mystic Revelation of Rastafari
By Chimurenga on 25 January 2023 in Arts & Pedagogy, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Music, PASS, Research
“Grounation Day” marks the landing of Emperor Selassie I in Jamaica on April 21, 1966.
Chimurenga presents GROUNATION
By Chimurenga on 25 January 2023 in Arts & Pedagogy, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Live Events, Music, PASS, Research
a tribute to the Mystic Revelation of Rastafari
LIBERATION RADIO: TUMI MOGOROSI’S GROUP THEORY:BLACK MUSIC
By Chimurenga on 16 January 2023 in Arts & Pedagogy, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Live Events, Music, PASS
The latest episode in the Stories About Music in Africa series
MYSTIC REVELATION OF RASTAFARI
By Chimurenga on 10 January 2023 in Arts & Pedagogy, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Music, PASS
We shall open this new cycle of programming with a month-long tribute to the almighty Mystic Revelation of Rastafari.
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
MALCOLM JIYANE’S TREE-O
By Chimurenga on 24 October 2022 in Arts & Pedagogy, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Live Events, Music, PASS
Live at Chimurenga Factory – Fri, 28 October 2022
TUMI MOGOROSI’S GROUP THEORY:BLACK MUSIC
By Chimurenga on 17 October 2022 in Arts & Pedagogy, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Live Events, Music, PASS
Live at Chimurenga Factory – Sat, 22 Oct 2022
LIBERATION MUSIC AT THE CHIMURENGA FACTORY – OCTOBER 2022
Tumi Mogorosi’s Group Theory:Black Music and Malcolm Jiyane’s Tree-O
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”
MASELLO MOTANA’S VOCAL MUSEUM
By Chimurenga on 28 June 2022 in Arts & Pedagogy, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Live Events, Media & Propaganda, Music, PASS
Live at the Chimurenga Factory
LIBERATION RADIO: PUNGWE 1
By Chimurenga on 19 April 2022 in Arts & Pedagogy, Media & Propaganda, Music, PASS, Systems of Governance
Selected and mixed by Robert Machiri
DIALECTIC SOUL
Friday, 08 April 2022 – 7pm
@ Chimurenga Factory
iPhupho L’ka Biko – live at the Chimurenga Factory
By Chimurenga on 24 March 2022 in Arts & Pedagogy, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Live Events, Media & Propaganda, Music, PASS, Systems of Governance
Thursday, 31 March 2022
7pm
CHIMURENGA@20: A Silent Way – Routes of South African Jazz, 1946-1978
By Chimurenga on 22 March 2022 in Arts & Pedagogy, Chimurenga Magazine, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Music
Where to begin? Which silences? There are many.
CHIMURENGA@20: Talkin’ ‘bout Survival – The Repatriation of Reggae
By Chimurenga on 3 March 2022 in Arts & Pedagogy, Chimurenga Magazine, Media & Propaganda, Music, Systems of Governance
Where Apartheid and broadcasters divided South Africans culturally, here comes bongo natty dread to motivate U-N-I-T-Y.
THE BROTHER MOVES ON RETURNS
Chimurenga Factory
Saturday, 06 November 2021
NEW STORIES ABOUT MUSIC IN AFRICA
PASS presents: Salim Washington, Dalisu Ndlazi, Asher Gamedze in conversation
HOME IS WHERE THE MUSIC IS
By Chimurenga on 25 August 2021 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chimurenga Library, Library Book Series, Music
The latest addition to the Chimurenganyana series
SALIM WASHINGTON, DALISU NDLAZI, ASHER GAMEDZE… IN CONVERSATION
Thursday, 24 June 2021 – 6pm
THE SUMMER OF ’69
Writer Pierre Crépon selects recordings illustrating his essay on the American avant-garde jazz in Paris in 1969.
CHIMURENGA CHRONIC – IMAGI-NATION NWAR – OUT NOW!
By Chimurenga on 24 March 2021 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Cash & Commerce, Chronic, Maps, Media & Propaganda, Music, Systems of Governance
A new issue of Chimurenga’s Chronic – out now. imagi-nation nwar – […]
PASS in Oslo (17 – 20 February 2021)
On Wednesday 17 February through to Saturday 20 February, Pan African Space Station […]
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.
QAMATA PULA, an ancestral invocation
By Chimurenga on 26 November 2020 in Arts & Pedagogy, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Live Events, Music, PASS
iPhupho L’ka Biko and Pan African Space Station present QAMATA PULA, an ancestral invocation collapsing past, present and future, over three days at the Chimurenga Factory
Creative Urban Momentum: Witnessing the Black Unity Trio
In anticipation of the release of Black Unity Trios’ legendary album, Al Fatihah, Hasan Abdur-Razzaq recalls witnessing their rehearsals in the late 1960s.
African Cities Reader I: Pan-African Practices
By Chimurenga on 3 September 2020 in African Cities Reader, Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Cash & Commerce, Faith & Ideology, Gaming, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Music, Systems of Governance
Featuring writing and musings by Rustum Kozain, Jean-Christophe Lanquetin, Gabebab Baderoon, Karen Press and more…
African Cities Reader II: Mobilities & Fixtures
By Chimurenga on 3 September 2020 in African Cities Reader, Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Cash & Commerce, Faith & Ideology, Gaming, Healing & bodies, Maps, Media & Propaganda, Music, Systems of Governance
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
By Chimurenga on 3 September 2020 in African Cities Reader, Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Cash & Commerce, Faith & Ideology, Gaming, Healing & bodies, Maps, Media & Propaganda, Music, Systems of Governance
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;
Abbey Lincoln’s Scream: Poetic Improvisation as a Way of Life
By Chimurenga on 18 August 2020 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Music, PASS
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.
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.
RIP PAPA GEORGE
By Chimurenga on 2 July 2020 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chimurenga Library, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Music, News
Exile demands contemplation because it is unavoidably real for those who experience […]
They Won’t Go When I Go
By Chimurenga on 29 June 2020 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chronic, Faith & Ideology, Featured, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Music
A Manifesto/ Meditation on State of Black Archives in America and throughout the Diaspora by Harmony Holiday
How Third World Students Liberated the West
By Chimurenga on 23 June 2020 in Archive, Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chronic, Comics, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Music, Systems of Governance
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.
IN THE BOOKSHOP: KINSHASA CHRONIQUES / KINSHASA CHRONICLES
Kinshasa Chronicles is a richly textured encounter featuring seventy artists, most of whom belong to a very young generation, telling tales of one of the world’s most vibrant creative hubs.
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.
Listen to “Sankomota: An Ode in One Album”
On 31 May, we hosted the launch of Phehello Mofokeng‘s reflective essay on Lesotho’s greatest band, Sankomota.
FESTAC ’77: PASS Playlist
A Festac 77 Mixtape featuring Randy Weston, Mandla Langa, Carlos Moore, The Blue Notes, Keorapetse Kgositsile, Michael McMillan, Miriam Makeba, Gilberto Gil, Tabu Ley Rochereau, Ray Lema and of course, Fela Kuti (voiced by Kolade Arogundade).
Traditional Intellectuals
Izithunywa Zohlanga’s art is the art of combat because it assumes responsibility, and because it is the will to liberty expressed in terms of time and space.
Dislocations in the Congolese World of Sound
A few years ago, while researching the political history of Congo/Zaire/Congo via the country’s music archive, particularly through the output of Luambo Makiadi aka Franco, we turned to the legendary record collection of “Jumbo” Donald Vanrenen.
HIKIMA – a letter from Zaria
She eyed me. A thing wet around her eyes, like water from the evening rain. Lateef, she said, an incurable emphasis on both syllables: Lah-teef.
The Invention of Africa by Franco & T.P.OK Jazz
The output of Luambo Makiadi aka Franco, from the legendary record collection of “Jumbo” Donald Vanrenen
N’Dombolo: the postulation of the post-Zaïko generation
First and foremost, an artistic secretion (the magical respiration of an entire generation of young Congolese), the Wenge generation’s most emblematic creation, a form of humour and a playful ape-like mimicry. The outpouring of Kinshasa, city of dreams, city of turmoil.
P.A.S.S. HARARE
Whatever Zimbabwe is, and is becoming, already exists in the sound-worlds produced in the region.
Neo Muyanga – The Sex For Money No Power Mixtape
By Chimurenga on 9 December 2018 in Arts & Pedagogy, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Music, PASS
PASS founder, a composer and musician Neo Muyanga highlights the currents and […]
Revisit moments from the PASS landing in Amsterdam
From 11 -15 December 2016, the Pan African Space Station transmitted live […]
Udaba with Kgafela oa Mogogodi – LIVE at Centre for the Book, Cape Town (2009)
On 1 October 2009, Pan African Space Station hosted Udaba at The […]
STORIES ABOUT MUSIC IN AFRICA – Ingoma Yomzabalazo with Iphupho Lka Biko
By Chimurenga on 28 February 2017 in Arts & Pedagogy, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Live Events, Music, PASS, Video
Recorded live at Chimurenga HQ, Cape Town, in February 2017
Creating Theatre: A George Hallett Photo Essay
By Chronic on 30 September 2015 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chimurenga Library, Chronic, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Music
“Exile demands contemplation because it is unavoidably real for those who experience […]
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.
Salut Deleuze!
Culled from a comic book tribute to, and intellectual biography of, Gilles Deleuze […]
DIPALO a mixtape for those who practice counting
DIPALO: a mixtape for those who practice counting, composed, arranged and performed by Muyanga, was released as an audio supplement to issue 16 of Chimurenga magazine
CHE IN THE CONGO, ELECTRIC GUITARS AND THE INVENTION OF AFRICA
Featuring solos by Franco Luambo Makiadi, Pepe Felly Manuaku, Bansimba Baroza, Diblo Dibala, Dally Kimoko, Flamme Kapaya, Sarah Solo, Japonais Maladi and Kimbangu Solo; and commentary by Ray Lema