On Circulations and the African Imagination of a Borderless World, October 2018
By Upendra Gehlot / July 17, 2019
What is the African imagination of a borderless world? What are our ideas on territoriality, borders and movement? How to move beyond so-called progressive discourse on “freedom of movement”
The Invention of Zimbabwe, April, 2018
By Upendra Gehlot / July 17, 2019
14 November 2017. News breaks of a coup d’état underway in Zimbabwe. Tanks, armoured vehicles and military personnel are seen patrolling the capital, Harare. The images send shock waves through social media, traditional broadcast news networks and diplomatic channels
We Make Our Own Food, April 2017
By Upendra Gehlot / July 17, 2019
In this issue, we put food back on the table: to restore the interdependence between the mouth that eats and the mouth that speaks, and to delve deeper into the subtle tactics of resistance and private practices that make food both a subversive art and a site of pleasure.
The Chronic- August 2016
By Upendra Gehlot / July 17, 2019
This issue of Chimurenga’s pan-African quarterly gazette, the Chronic, explores ideas around mythscience, science fiction and graphic storytelling. Like previous editions of the Chronic,
The Chronic (April 2016)
By Upendra Gehlot / July 17, 2019
In the fall of 2015, universities across South Africa were engulfed by fires ignited by students’ discontent with the racial discrimination and colonialism that still defines the country’s institutes of higher education.
The Chronic (July 2015)
By Upendra Gehlot / July 17, 2019
In the minds of many, the Sahara exists as a boundary between the Maghreb and “Black Africa”. History and our lived experience tell a different story. The latest issue of Chimurenga’s pan African gazette, the Chronic,