Launching NOTES FOR AN ORATORIO ON SMALL THINGS THAT FALL
By Chimurenga / April 12, 2022
Wednesday, 13 April 2022
Chimurenga Factory
6pm
LIBERATION RADIO: La Discothèque de Sarah Maldoror*
By Chimurenga / March 25, 2022
Selected by Ntone Edjabe
FESTAC AT 45: FESTAC ’77, a mixtape by Chimurenga
By Chimurenga / July 29, 2020
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.
Festac at 45: Idia Tales – Three Takes and a Mask*
By Chimurenga / October 18, 2021
By Dominique Malaquais and Cedric Vincent
Festac at 45: Steal Back the Treasure
By Chimurenga / February 21, 2020
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.
Festac at 45: Black Sopranos in Handwoven Clothes
By Chimurenga / January 17, 2022
FESTAC was a cultural-cum-intellectual feast funded principally by the military government of Nigeria. For this reason, it is important to highlight the general political climate of the world in the mid-1970s, as it played a role in the choices that the managers of the Nigerian state had to make in bringing about this cultural event.
You Look Illegal by Paula Ihozo Akugizibwe
By Chimurenga / February 4, 2022
The latest addition to the Chimurenganyana series available now
CHIMURENGANYANA: THE FEAR AND LOATHING OUT OF HARARE BY DAMBUDZO MARECHERA (DEC 2021)
By Chimurenga / December 10, 2021
by Dambudzo Marechera
Available now at our online store.
HOME IS WHERE THE MUSIC IS
By Chimurenga / August 25, 2021
The latest addition to the Chimurenganyana series
Labour Tenants South Western Transvaal
By Chimurenga / July 22, 2021
“There’s no real vocabulary for the non-photographed of apartheid‟ – Santu Mofokeng
EVEN WHEN MY SOUP-CURLERS SLUR BY GEORGIA ANNE MULDROW – OUT NOW!
By Chimurenga / June 17, 2021
A limited Chimurenganyana edition of Even When My Soup-Curlers Slur, I Still Keep the Take by Georgia Anne Muldrow is now available.
RADIO MAC ON PASS – 14-21 June
By Chimurenga / June 11, 2021
Chimurenga and Hangar (Lisbon) present Radio MAC live on PASS 14-21 June 2021, 6pm.
“The Oppressor Remains What He Is”
By Chimurenga / January 11, 2021
Why does it seem that the genocide deniers have perked up? What […]
FESTAC 77 T-SHIRT – AVAILABLE NOW!
By Chimurenga / November 10, 2020
A limited edition of the iconic FESTAC 77 t-shirt now available.
BECOMING KWAME TURE – OUT NOW!
By Chimurenga / October 21, 2020
Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) was viewed by many during the civil rights […]
Reproducing Festac ’77: A secret among a family of millions
By Chimurenga / May 29, 2020
Kwanele Sosibo speaks with Ntone Edjabe about the creation of, and thinking behind, the FESTAC ’77 publication.
NEW IN BOOKSHOP
By Chimurenga / February 20, 2020
Early in 1977, thousands of artists, writers, musicians, activists and scholars from Africa and the black diaspora assembled in Lagos for FESTAC ’77, the 2nd World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture.
FESTAC 77 BOOK – OUT NOW
By Chimurenga / January 25, 2020
Early in 1977, thousands of artists, writers, musicians, activists and scholars from Africa and the black diaspora assembled in Lagos for FESTAC ’77,,, To many, too many, FESTAC sounded like cacophony – we reproduced its music on the page, decomposed and an-arranged.
Senegal & Festac 77
By Chimurenga / January 22, 2020
After New York in October 2019, and in the spirit of the trans-continentalism (aka Black World) of the event, we return to Dakar to celebrate the release of Chimurenga’s new publication on FESTAC ’77 – in collaboration with RAW Material Company.
FESTAC 77 BOOK – Sample spreads
By Chimurenga / October 1, 2019
448 pages, colour illustrations featuring extensive unseen photographic and archival materials, interviews and new commissions.
WHO KILLED KABILA: CAST OF CHARACTERS
By Chimurenga / September 10, 2019
The cast list of actors and character who make an appearance in the issue includes everyone from Ché Guevara and psychiatrist, political theorist and Frantz Fanon, to Rashidi Muzele, the assassin who pulled the trigger and many more.
The Pharaoh’s New Clothes
By Chronic / July 26, 2019
Its location, vocation, and publication intended to speak to a politicised Third World imaginary.
“We should take out that word ‘national’ and reconstruct that word ‘theatre’….
By Chimurenga / August 1, 2019
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.
Crossroads Republic
By Chimurenga / August 1, 2019
The Nigerian superstar bandleader Fela Anikulapo-Kuti hosted a covert summit meeting in the summer of 1977.
La Colonie, Paris: 13 – 17 December 2017
By Chimurenga / July 17, 2017
Chimurenga returned to Paris for a 5-day intervention and installation at La Colonie we […]
Kallio Library, Helsinki: April 13 – May 28 2016
By Chimurenga / July 17, 2016
Can a past that the present has not yet caught up with […]
New York, USA: 7-11 November 2015
By Chimurenga / July 17, 2019
At Performa 2015, the Chimurenga Library took the form of a library-of-people, […]
Showroom Gallery London, UK: 8 October – 21 November 2015
By Chimurenga / July 17, 2019
For the first UK presentation, Chimurenga infiltrated The Showroom’s building in the […]
San Francisco Public Library San Francisco, US: 24 May – 29 June 2014
By Chimurenga / July 17, 2019
Presented as part of the exhibition Public Intimacy, Chimurenga Library offered a simple system that […]
MU, Eindhoven, Netherlands, 21 May – 1 August 2010
By Chimurenga / July 17, 2019
Chimurenga Library exhibition at …for those who live in it: Pop-culture politics and […]
Cape Town Central Library, Cape Town: 2 May – 21 June 2009
By Chimurenga / July 17, 2019
An introspective of Chimurenga Magazine Presented in and around the Cape Town Central […]
Installations
By Chimurenga / July 17, 2019
The Library recognises people as knowledge and memory as the art of […]
Who Killed Kabila
By Chimurenga / July 17, 2019
On January 16, 2001, in the middle of the day, shots are […]
Lower Frequencies
By Chimurenga / July 17, 2019
Africa has a long history of comic production that span multiple forms […]
New Cartographies
By Chimurenga / July 17, 2019
Since its launch in 2011, every edition of The Chronic has engaged with this question: […]
Panafest
By Chimurenga / July 17, 2019
From January 15 to February 12 1977, thousands of artists, writers, musicians, […]
PASS is going to Australia!
By Chimurenga / March 6, 2019
From 11 -13 April, as part of an exhibition hosted by Monash […]
Festac ’77 – a faction by Akin Adesokan
By Chimurenga / December 9, 2018
Was Festac 77 curated by Esu Elegba? Akin Adesokan’s faction explores art […]
FESTAC ’77 – the Book and LP soon come!
By Chimurenga / December 7, 2018
Early in 1977, thousands of artists, writers, musicians, activists and scholars from […]
Joe An Essay by Sam Kahiga June 2008
By Chimurenga / September 20, 2018
All my life, I wanted to be either a writer or a […]
Civil Lines
By Chimurenga / September 19, 2018
An Essay by Achal Prabhala At some point in the 1980s – […]
FOUR GROUND-BREAKING THINGS IN FIVE ISSUES OF CIVIL LINES OR, WAYS TO GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF THE POSTCOLONIAL SAND
By Chimurenga / September 19, 2018
an essay by Vivek Narayanan [Note: while preparing this piece, I benefited greatly […]
Black Images – An Essay by Peter James Hudson
By Chimurenga / September 18, 2018
July 2008 The premiere issue of Black Images: A Critical Quarterly of Black […]
The Impossible Death of an African Crime Buster
By Chimurenga / September 18, 2018
Spearman… Lance Spearman – the name synonymous with the intrepid hero of […]
The Emperor of Kinshasa’s Street Comics
By Chimurenga / September 17, 2018
by Nancy Rose Hunt Beginning nearly fifty years ago, in 1968, Kinshasa […]
Spear: Canada’s Truth and Soul Magazine
By Chimurenga / September 17, 2018
by Peter James Hudson November 2010 Spear: Canada’s Truth and Soul Magazine launched […]
Staffriding the Frontline
By Chimurenga / September 17, 2018
An Essay by Lesego RampolokengMay 2008 Down from a couple years beyond […]
Staffrider
By Chimurenga / September 17, 2018
An Essay by Ivan VladislavićMarch 2008 I joined Ravan Press as a […]
Of “Brothers with Perfect Timing”
By Chimurenga / September 17, 2018
An Essay by Mike Abraham2008 Germiston station has a very long platform. […]
WHY: An Essay by Nicole Turner
By Chimurenga / September 2, 2018
Forgive me if the facts are screwed, Y days were heady and chaotic. I […]
“Angazi, but I’m sure”: A Raw Académie Session
By Chronic / July 21, 2021
RAW Material Company is a Dakar-based centre for art, knowledge and society; […]
The Chimurenga Library at The Showroom, London.
By Chronic / October 2, 2015
For our first UK presentation, Chimurenga will infiltrate The Showroom’s building in […]
Creating Theatre: A George Hallett Photo Essay
By Chronic / September 30, 2015
“Exile demands contemplation because it is unavoidably real for those who experience […]