Have African literary forms been lost in a morass of European culture? For more than half a century Taban Lo Liyong has lamented thus.
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CHIMURENGA@20: IN PRAISE OF INDIGENOUS AFRICAN WORDFORM
By Chimurenga on 24 November 2022 in Arts & Pedagogy, Cash & Commerce, Chronic, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda
CHIMURENGA@20: Midway Between Silence and Speech
The art and incarnation of Justine Gaga.
LIBERATION RADIO: MASELLO MOTANA’S VOCAL MUSEUM
By Chimurenga on 26 October 2022 in Arts & Pedagogy, Gaming, Healing & bodies, Live Events, Music, PASS
The latest episode in the Stories About Music in Africa series, now available
CHIMURENGA@20: MURIMI MUNHU
By Chimurenga on 26 September 2022 in Chronic, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Systems of Governance
Panashe Chigumadzi travels to the rural Zimbabwe of her ancestors, onto land stolen and cash-cropped by a privileged minority under racist white rule.
CHIMURENGA@20: GENRES OF HUMAN
By Chimurenga on 19 September 2022 in Arts & Pedagogy, Chronic, Gaming, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
In his book, The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black Technopoetics, Louis Chude-Sokei samples freely from history, music, literature and science, conjuring new meanings from dead texts, to build an echo chamber where the discourses of race and technology collide
CHIMURENGA@20: AZANIA SALUTES TOSH
By Chimurenga on 27 July 2022 in Chimurenga Magazine, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
On the eve of the tenth anniversary of the death of Bantu Steve Biko, a stunned and outraged Azania heard that the Vampire had martyred Peter Tosh.
SOUNDGARDEN
By Chimurenga on 13 July 2022 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Live Events, PASS
a live reading for Bessie Head’s 85th
13 July 2022 from 6pm
CHIMURENGA@20: STICKFIGHTING DAYS
Everyone knows I’m a two-stick man. But, I’m not ready to go up against Markham again just yet. Or any of the other top stickfighters. I’ve been trying some new moves. I feel close to a breakthrough in terms of technique. But it’s not quite there
CHIMURENGA@20: MONDAY BLUES FOR SANDILE DIKENI
The most recent episode of Stories About Music in Africa is Monday Blues for Sandile Dikeni
CHIMURENGA@20: A Silent Way – Routes of South African Jazz, 1946-1978
By Chimurenga on 22 March 2022 in Arts & Pedagogy, Chimurenga Magazine, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Music
Where to begin? Which silences? There are many.
CHIMURENGA@20: Talkin’ ‘bout Survival – The Repatriation of Reggae
By Chimurenga on 3 March 2022 in Arts & Pedagogy, Chimurenga Magazine, Media & Propaganda, Music, Systems of Governance
Where Apartheid and broadcasters divided South Africans culturally, here comes bongo natty dread to motivate U-N-I-T-Y.
CHIMURENGA@20: NO ONE WILL SAVE YOU – REMEMBERING KENYA’S KARL MARX
By Chimurenga on 18 April 2017 in Arts & Pedagogy, Cash & Commerce, Chronic, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
Student movements in many African countries have historically confronted contradictions of colonial and post-colonial rule. In Kenya, these movements sent generations of young people into the streets, underground, into exile or death.
CHIMURENGA@20: SISTER OUTSIDER
By Chimurenga on 5 April 2016 in Chronic, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
Yemisi Aribisala rails against the new fundamentalism cresting the wave of global feminism sweeping Nigeria. She challenges the gender imperialism implicit in its aspiration to uniform ideas of celebrity, power, erudition and beauty.
CHIMURENGA@20: SECULAR STORIES
By Chimurenga on 26 May 2015 in Books & Oration, Chronic, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda
Authenticity counts for something; the confidence that authenticity bestows counts for even more.
CHIMURENGA@20: WAITING FOR WAME
By Chimurenga on 26 May 2015 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chronic, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies
I am hungry. Tempted. In pain. I reach for the pack. Pop out another capsule. One minute. Ten minutes. Twenty minutes. The pain has reduced to a dull throbbing. I am floating.
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.