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The African Renaissance Hoer-o-scope for Politicians
By Chronic on 8 January 2015 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Faith & Ideology, Systems of Governance
The Alternative is at Hand
Working within the black radical tradition, Fred Moten and Stefano Harney frame a […]
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
By Chronic on 9 December 2014 in Archive, Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
The important contribution of the Black Consciousness Movement to art activism in […]
The G.Spot Protagonists
By Chronic on 19 November 2014 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Healing & bodies, Systems of Governance
by Goddy Leye I am sitting in front of the Cologne cathedral, amazed by […]
Philatelic Pan Africanism
The Otolith Group, founded by Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun in 2002, uses […]
How Kenya Exploded In My Heart
A letter from Harare by Petina Gappah I once lived in a […]
XXYX Africa
By Chimurenga on 1 October 2014 in Books & Oration, Chronic, Healing & bodies, Systems of Governance
LGBT Africa held two truths: you fuck, you die.
Buru Buru
Billy Kahora reflects on the state of the ‘estate’ of his Nairobi […]
Palestine Journey
By Chronic on 22 August 2014 in Archive, Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Faith & Ideology, Systems of Governance
In February 2005, Ishtiyaq Shukri’s novel The Silent Minaret, won the first European […]
L’impossible n’est pas Camerounais!
Kangsen Feka Wakai traces personal lineage, and the often blurred and disputed […]
CHIMURENGA@20: BEASTS OF NO NATION
Whether immigrating, emigrating or just passing through, Africans suffer among the greatest indignities of cross-border travel, abroad and on the continent. Paula Akugizibwe recounts how the hand-me-down tools of divide and rule perpetuate the abuse.
The cosmic lives and afterlives of Zebulon Dread
By Chimurenga on 13 July 2014 in Archive, Books & Oration, Faith & Ideology, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
byAchal Prabhala Part 1: Elliot Josephs Elliot Josephs was born in 1958 […]
Obi’s Nightmare
by Jamón y Queso translated by David Shook […]
It’s only a matter of acceleration now
By Chronic on 1 July 2014 in Books & Oration, Chronic, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Systems of Governance
This is how the earth is arranged, or this is how the kora arranged and made the universe, and songs of numbers and words made souls…. Are you ready to interview Youssou N’Dour?
Not only our land but also our souls
Andile Mngxitama challenges historical and contemporary rhetoric that positions land theft in […]
The End of Elections
by Paula Akugizibwe Jose Saramago’s Seeing is no Arab spring. Revolutionary […]
A Brief History of Throwing Shit
By Chronic on 9 May 2014 in Archive, Arts & Pedagogy, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
by Rustum Kozain. Shit, muck, drek, kak. Faecal matter. We humans have a […]
“Nice Nice” Will Get You Nowhere
Boniface Mwangi is a Kenyan photographer who pulls no punches in using […]
A Brief History of Presidential Libraries
by Stacy Hardy Léopold Sédar Senghor, Aimé Césaire and George Pompidou were friends […]
Will the Centre Hold?
In South Africa’s platinum belt, life and politics are as hard-scrabble as […]
Method After Fela
By Chimurenga on 6 February 2014 in Archive, Arts & Pedagogy, Healing & bodies, Systems of Governance
by Akin Adesokan “You reckon a guy just goes and cuts […]
Fifty Years Of African Decolonisation
by Achille Mbembe (translated by Karen Press) Here we are in 2010, fifty […]
The skin I’m in: Afro-Bengali solidarity and possible futures
Naeem Mohaiemen reviews Vivek Bald’s Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of […]
‘Nation Is A Skin Stretched Over The Bones Of The State’
Jon Soske struggles to pin down Hamid Parsani, the elusive, mercurial Iranian archaeologist, […]
A Letter from Home
By Chimurenga on 21 December 2013 in Archive, Cash & Commerce, Faith & Ideology, Systems of Governance
by E. C. Osondu My Dear Son, Why have you not been […]
Number 11
Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño muses on writing, borders, Latin American literature and the […]
Birthing the American
Yemisi Aribisala explores, with mixed emotions, the enduring opportunism of a Nigerian elite that ensures that generations of children claim US birthright. Despite the assumed status that goes with being born “abroad”, the American dream, she argues, is in fact only a Nigerian backup plan.
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 […]
When We Hear the Name of President
Nigerian poet Tanure Ojaide evokes a language of high stakes, hi-jinx, and […]
George Osodi
George Osodi is a photographer from “the oil-rich Niger Delta region”. His images […]
Interactions: A Strategy of Difference and Repetition
Interactions Interactions is an edited excerpt from filmmaker, writer and artist Aryan […]
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 […]
A Civil Society Of African States
Paula Akugizibwe assumes observer status at the African Union and finds the […]
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 […]
America Will Always Blame…
Rigo 23, born Ricardo Gouveia, is a Portuguese muralist, painter, and political […]
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, […]
Three Men, A Fence & A Dead Body
Sean O’Toole travels to the northern reaches of Limpopo where South Africa […]
A Fieldguide for Female Interrogators
by Coco Fusco (illustrations: Dan Turner) This graphic story previously […]
The Way Back Home Article
The Way Back Home On the death of a close relative, Niq […]
Graveyards, monuments and African Studies
by Nicole Sarmiento. “I have argued that the problem with this course is […]
Achebe The Native Intellectual
There Was A Country, Chinua Achebe’s autobiographical account of the Nigerian Civil […]
Is Biko’s legacy being besmirched?
By Chimurenga on 8 April 2013 in Archive, Books & Oration, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
In October 2002, 25 years since Stephen Bantu Biko‘s death, poet James Matthews penned […]
50 Years Ago: Zeke in Nigeria
Es’kia Mphahlele and the Anti-Apartheid Association of Nigeria Moritz Isaac (Manu) Herbstein […]
Diary Of A Bad Year
Diary Of A Bad Year: President Mbeki’s Letters to the Nation by […]
Walking through walls
Eyal Weizman reports on military tactics known as ‘walking through walls’ where […]
When history is suspended
(In memory of Ernesto Alfabeto Nhamuave) by Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa I […]
EU fortifies its mission on North African frontline
Supported by Libya and Tunisia, the European Union is ringing the Mediterranean […]
La Frontera
Klas Lundström finds himself in an isolated corner of the Amazon jungle […]
Uncertainty in Cuba after the Death of Hugo Chávez
As the world bids adiós to Hugo Chávez, Ivan García (of Desde La Habana) reports on […]
The Death of Jacob Dlamini
Political analyst, Jacob Dlamini, argues that the death of another so named […]
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 […]
Chicken Core: The Rise of Kings
SporeDust is a young animation studio, still a rare species in the […]
The Adventures of Dr Evil in Dakar
President Abdoulaye Wade recently claimed intellectual property rights of the “African […]
Not Yet Uhuru
Ugandan journalist and activist, Kalundi Serumaga, reflects on his time as a political […]
The Warm Up
The xenophobic violence sweeping many communities in the past weeks is not […]
Les Saignantes
A young woman, beautiful, 20-something, is fucking […]
The Quiet Encroachment of the Ordinary
Asef Bayat A traveller to Middle Eastern cities, Tehran, Cairo or Rabat […]
A New Consciousness
Itumeleng oa Mahabane A man walks down a street. His shoulders […]
France’s war for uranium
Carlos Latuff
Evidence
Brent Hayes Edwards The cell is four meters long and two meters […]
Juba ‘I will make my life here’
By Chronic on 13 February 2013 in Cash & Commerce, Chimurenga Magazine, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
The metronomes of ancient history, the legacy of war, the wavering prosperity of peace, impending independence and inter-ethnic tensions beat the rhythms of Juba – the new capital of Southern Sudan. Billy Kahora reports.
Sortir de la grande nuit. Essai sur l’Afrique décolonisée
By Chimurenga on 8 December 2010 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
Norbert N. Ouendji interviews Achille Mbembe before Afropolitanism (circa 2010) « Sortir de […]
Calabash Afrobeat Poems
By Chimurenga on 15 October 2010 in Arts & Pedagogy, Media & Propaganda, Music, PASS, Systems of Governance, Video
by Dike Okoro Ikwunga Wonodi is not a new face among Afrobeat […]