In 2019, Kinshasa counts some thirteen million inhabitants. By 2075, demographers expect that it will be home to forty million more. With such numbers and from a history, both colonial and postcolonial, often marred by political and economic violence, comes a strikingly complex urban experience. Kinshasa Chronicles is a richly textured encounter with this experience: seventy artists, most of whom belong to a very young generation, meet up here to tell tales of one of the world’s most vibrant creative hubs. They address multiple themes – “performance city”, “sport city”, “music city”, “look city”, “capital(ist) city”, “spirit city”, “DIY city”, “future city”, “memory city” – and deploy a rich palette of media, including photography, video, installation and performance art, sculpture, painting, drawing, comics, music, slam and poetry. The mix is explosive and ultra-contemporary : passionate, engaging, thoughtful.
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Mar 29, 2017African Cookbooks and Excess Luggage
Mar 29, 2017
Debt and Study
Sep 20, 2016The Complete Gentleman
Aug 30, 2016Kaveena
Aug 14, 2016Afro Horn
Aug 14, 2016Yakhal’ Inkomo
Aug 14, 2016Major Gentl and the Achimota Wars
Aug 14, 2016Time to Bleed
Jun 30, 2016The Making of Mannenberg
May 31, 2016
The Way I See It: We Need New Myths
May 25, 2016Thinking of Brenda
May 10, 2016The Art of Suspense
Apr 7, 2016Writing Football
Apr 6, 2016The Invention of African Football
Apr 6, 2016A Fine Madness
Apr 6, 2016The University of Soweto
Apr 5, 2016“That Guy No Be Ordinary”
Apr 5, 2016Politics of Betrayal
Apr 5, 2016Marcus Garvey is Alive in East Africa
Apr 5, 2016The Picture
Nov 24, 2015Inaudible I
Nov 18, 2015
Dear Dr. Schwab, Queen of Jordan
Nov 18, 2015Folk Dancing for Beginners
Nov 18, 2015Dansons Donc le Zouglou
Nov 18, 2015Sermon on the Train
Oct 20, 2015Lagos, Lagos
Oct 6, 2015The Amazing Career of Passport Number B957848
Oct 6, 2015Creating Theatre: A George Hallett Photo Essay
Sep 30, 2015Topaze
Sep 15, 2015Rumblin’
Sep 3, 2015
Gordon Parks Photo Essay
Aug 13, 2015The Sound of Freedom
Aug 6, 2015Liner Notes
Aug 5, 2015CAMFRANGLAIS – a lexicon
Aug 5, 2015What We Did After We Lost 100 Years of Wealth
Aug 5, 2015Gospel Christian Porn Rap
Aug 5, 2015Invisible Borders
Aug 5, 2015Mining the Biennale
Aug 5, 2015Love and Learning Under the World Bank
Aug 5, 2015
Archie Shepp’s Shirt Suggests
Aug 1, 2015Together in the Picture
Jul 23, 2015Land Homeland
Jul 23, 2015Sounding the Horn on Reconstruction
Jul 23, 2015Queenstown
Jul 23, 2015Season’s Greetings
Jun 10, 2015Ayinde Barrister: Tribute to a True Exponent
Jun 10, 2015The Sahara is not a Boundary
Jun 10, 2015Jeune Afrique
Jun 10, 2015Souffles
Jun 10, 2015El-Salahi – The Wise Enemy
Jun 10, 2015Al Fatah
Jun 10, 2015Trajectories of the Sudanese Gulf
Jun 10, 2015Ibrahim El-Salahi
Jun 9, 2015Entretien Bouchra Khalili
Jun 9, 20151966
Jun 9, 2015Hiwar
Jun 9, 2015Qibla
Jun 9, 2015Writing the City in a Different Script
Jun 9, 2015
CHIMURENGA@20: SECULAR STORIES
May 26, 2015The New Reading
May 26, 2015
CHIMURENGA@20: WAITING FOR WAME
May 26, 2015Authority Stealing in Kenya
May 20, 2015Under the Caine Bridge
May 19, 2015Both Sides Then and Now
May 7, 2015Authority Stealing in Nigeria
May 6, 2015Authority Stealing in India
May 6, 2015
A Petition for Mongo Beti
May 6, 2015I Think I’ll Call it Morning
Mar 25, 2015The Shifting Fortunes of a Performing Poet
Mar 20, 2015Black Man in the White Suit
Mar 20, 2015The Institute
Mar 19, 2015Manufacturing African Celebrity
Mar 19, 2015Pan Africanism in Katanga
Mar 19, 2015Becoming Chimamanda’s Boy
Mar 19, 2015Creative Industries as Underdevelopment
Mar 19, 2015
All That is Solid Melts into PR
Mar 19, 2015Reviews in Brief
Mar 19, 2015Operation Protective Edge
Mar 19, 2015Portrait of the Artist as a Daughter
Mar 19, 2015Licking Dirty Hands
Mar 19, 2015Undoing the Spell
Mar 19, 2015The Undeveloped Intellectual in Zombie-land
Mar 19, 2015Breaking the Rules Beautifully
Mar 19, 2015Men and their Dogs
Mar 19, 2015Miniature Metamorphoses
Mar 19, 2015The Other Brother
Mar 19, 2015A Geography of Times and Affects
Mar 19, 2015And the Books Lived Happily Ever After
Mar 19, 2015Which Africa Are We Talking About?
Mar 19, 2015Shooting From Point Blank Range
Mar 19, 2015Beneath the Underdog
Mar 19, 2015Shifting Gulfward
Mar 19, 2015Life After Oil
Mar 19, 2015We almost died thrice…
Mar 19, 2015The Bite and the Embrace
Mar 19, 2015The Face: Cartography of the Void
Mar 18, 2015A Brief History of Mapping
Mar 18, 2015How Close Are You To This Place?
Mar 12, 2015Situation is Critical
Feb 25, 2015How to write about Africa
Feb 25, 2015In Suburbia
Feb 24, 2015Preliminary Notes for a Mediterranean Manifesto
Feb 15, 2015The Chronic – mapping the new – soon come
Feb 3, 2015Gateway
Jan 26, 2015Dispatches from Beirut
Jan 14, 2015In the Listening Room with Neo Muyanga
Jan 12, 2015The Story of an African Farm
Jan 8, 2015The Alternative is at Hand
Jan 6, 2015Kangsen Feka Wakai Can’t Breathe
Dec 17, 2014Beyond Oppression-Liberation-Maendeleo
Dec 16, 2014The New Thing
Dec 4, 2014Midway Between Silence and Speech
Nov 21, 2014Exitour as Rhizome
Nov 21, 2014Une Hommage à Goddy Leye
Nov 21, 2014The Beautiful Beast
Nov 20, 2014The G.Spot Protagonists
Nov 19, 2014
Honouring Somaliness
Nov 18, 2014Philatelic Pan Africanism
Nov 4, 2014Poets Pressing Record(s)
Oct 19, 2014Mythscience Records
Oct 17, 2014This is a pigment of my imagination
Oct 14, 2014How Kenya Exploded In My Heart
Oct 13, 2014
XXYX Africa
Oct 1, 2014Buru Buru
Sep 23, 2014Floyd Mayweather and Improvised Modalities of Rhythm
Sep 19, 2014The Case of Sipho Mchunu
Sep 16, 2014Accordion Cowboys
Sep 2, 2014Why music is better than photography
Aug 29, 2014AF 888
Aug 29, 2014Palestine Journey
Aug 22, 2014L’impossible n’est pas Camerounais!
Aug 5, 2014
Searching for Augusto Zita
Aug 4, 2014Visioncarnation
Jul 17, 2014The Black Guru
Jul 16, 2014A New Myth
Jul 15, 2014Masquerade
Jul 14, 2014
The cosmic lives and afterlives of Zebulon Dread
Jul 13, 201411 YRS OF DEMONCRAZY!!!
Jul 2, 2014Historieda
Jul 2, 2014Motshumi’s Country
Jul 2, 2014
It’s only a matter of acceleration now
Jul 1, 2014New Bush, Old Ghosts
Jun 23, 2014When You Kill Us, We Rule
Jun 18, 2014Sketches of ‘Trane
Jun 17, 2014Obstacles
Jun 17, 2014The End of Elections
May 12, 2014A Brief History of Throwing Shit
May 9, 2014On Mermaids and Microwaves
May 9, 2014“Nice Nice” Will Get You Nowhere
May 8, 2014A Brief History of Presidential Libraries
May 8, 2014Happy Valentine’s Day
Feb 14, 2014Method After Fela
Feb 6, 2014In Praise of Complexity
Feb 5, 2014Translations – A Call For Proposals
Dec 31, 2013Woza Moya
Dec 31, 2013Paris-Algiers, Underground Class
Dec 20, 2013“I’m Not An African Writer, Damn You!”
Dec 20, 2013Number 11
Dec 20, 2013The Last Angel of History
Dec 20, 2013The Hyphenated African
Dec 20, 2013Fuzzy Goo’s Guide (to the Earth)
Nov 16, 2013Even the Dead
Nov 16, 2013Shoes
Nov 15, 2013A Three Point Shot from Andromeda
Nov 12, 2013Say What You Mean
Nov 12, 2013Onitsha Republic
Oct 8, 2013Depth of Field
Oct 8, 2013Neo Africanus: In Teju Cole’s World
Oct 8, 2013I Have Always Meant to Fail
Oct 8, 2013How to be a Nigerian
Oct 8, 2013When We Hear the Name of President
Oct 7, 2013Lagos Underground
Oct 4, 2013Lagos: A Pilgrimage in Notations
Oct 4, 2013Mining Sounds: Lagos – Cairo
Oct 4, 2013Washing Henry – a letter from New York
Sep 14, 2013Che
Aug 5, 2013America Will Always Blame…
Aug 5, 2013Who’s Free, Who’s Not, Who Was, Who Wasn’t, and Who’s Dead: And, Are You Sure You Know Which Way Is Up?
Aug 4, 2013Suspect Sammy
Aug 4, 2013Memento Mori
Aug 4, 2013Senselessness
Aug 4, 2013Threatening the Hormonal Stability of Imbeciles
Aug 4, 2013Name Death & Text
Aug 4, 2013Damballah
Aug 3, 2013Rest In Peace Chiwoniso Maraire
Jul 29, 201310 Questions For Mukoma Wa Ngugi
Jul 9, 2013Godhead
Jul 9, 2013In Defense Of The Films We Have Made
Jul 9, 2013Everyday is for the Thief
Jul 8, 2013I Smoked A Spliff With Jesus Christ
Jul 7, 2013WHO’S CALLING?
Jul 5, 2013Who Killed Christopher Okigbo
Jun 30, 2013What’s Next
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Jun 1, 2013The way back home
Jun 1, 2013Way Back Home excerpt
Jun 1, 2013Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989)
May 31, 2013We Used To Dance
May 31, 2013Relaxing
May 31, 2013Graveyards, monuments and African Studies
May 10, 2013Achebe The Native Intellectual
Apr 18, 2013Moses’ outro
Apr 14, 2013Ten paragraphs of Music Criticism
Apr 14, 2013
Bajove Dokotela
Apr 14, 2013The night Moses died (Parts one and two)
Apr 14, 2013Unchain the art
Apr 14, 2013Kin La Belle
Apr 14, 2013To Be or Not To Bop
Apr 14, 2013The anti-art of Kongofuturism
Apr 13, 2013Call for an Archive of AfroSonics
Apr 13, 2013Imprinting Afrosonics
Apr 13, 2013Language Games
Apr 8, 2013Letters to Hillbrow
Apr 8, 2013Is Biko’s legacy being besmirched?
Apr 8, 2013Monica Maxwell and Samson Botsotso
Apr 8, 2013Notes Towards A Question of Power
Apr 8, 201350 Years Ago: Zeke in Nigeria
Apr 7, 2013Bra Tebs talks
Apr 7, 2013Diary Of A Bad Year
Apr 5, 2013All Roads Lead to Hendrix
Apr 5, 2013Cover Story
Mar 25, 2013Must You Stage an Escape?
Mar 25, 2013San Pedro V: The Hope I Hope
Mar 24, 2013New Bushs Old Ghosts
Mar 22, 2013The Afflicted Yard: The Rock
Mar 22, 2013Salut Deleuze!
Mar 14, 2013Did You Kiss the Dead Body?
Mar 14, 2013An Introduction to Arithmetic Sorcery
Mar 14, 2013The Boys are Doin’ it!
Mar 13, 201352 Niggers
Mar 13, 2013The Test
Mar 9, 2013Under the rainbow rays
Mar 9, 2013Dr Satan’s Echo Chamber
Mar 9, 2013The Adventures of Dr Evil in Dakar
Mar 9, 2013Les Saignantes
Mar 1, 2013This Young (Wo)man
Mar 1, 2013Yellow Fever, NKO?
Mar 1, 2013Folk Dancing For Beginners
Mar 1, 2013Childhood Snapshots
Mar 1, 2013Discoveries of Timbuktu
Feb 13, 2013Evidence
Feb 13, 2013
In Search of Yambo
Feb 12, 2013
Somewhere between a scream and a lullaby
Feb 12, 2013
It Begins with a Place
Jul 21, 2012
Asia in My Life
Jul 21, 2012
The Spark of Life: Where Novels Come From
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Ten Pieces of Advice for the Writing Life
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DIPALO a mixtape for those who practice counting
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