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.
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FESTAC 77 BOOK – OUT NOW
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.
FESTAC 77 BOOK – Sample spreads
448 pages, colour illustrations featuring extensive unseen photographic and archival materials, interviews and new commissions.
The Chronic: Who Killed Kabila
On January 16, 2001, in the middle of the day, shots are heard in the Palais de Marbre,the residence of President Laurent-Désiré Kabila.
New York, USA: 7-11 November 2015
At Performa 2015, the Chimurenga Library took the form of a library-of-people, […]
Showroom Gallery London, UK: 8 October – 21 November 2015
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
Presented as part of the exhibition Public Intimacy, Chimurenga Library offered a simple system that […]
MU, Eindhoven, Netherlands, 21 May – 1 August 2010
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
An introspective of Chimurenga Magazine Presented in and around the Cape Town Central […]
Joe An Essay by Sam Kahiga June 2008
All my life, I wanted to be either a writer or a […]
Civil Lines
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
an essay by Vivek Narayanan [Note: while preparing this piece, I benefited greatly […]
Black Images – An Essay by Peter James Hudson
July 2008 The premiere issue of Black Images: A Critical Quarterly of Black […]
The Impossible Death of an African Crime Buster
By Chimurenga on 18 September 2018 in Archive, Books & Oration, Cash & Commerce, Chimurenga Library, Chronic, Media & Propaganda
Spearman… Lance Spearman – the name synonymous with the intrepid hero of […]
The Emperor of Kinshasa’s Street Comics
by Nancy Rose Hunt Beginning nearly fifty years ago, in 1968, Kinshasa […]
Spear: Canada’s Truth and Soul Magazine
by Peter James Hudson November 2010 Spear: Canada’s Truth and Soul Magazine launched […]
WHY: An Essay by Nicole Turner
Forgive me if the facts are screwed, Y days were heady and chaotic. I […]
Chimurenga Library on Circulations
The Chimurenga Library is an ongoing invention into knowledge production and the […]
La Colonie, Paris: 13 – 17 December 2017
Chimurenga returned to Paris for a 5-day intervention and installation at La Colonie we […]
Kallio Library, Helsinki: April 13 – May 28 2016
Can a past that the present has not yet caught up with […]