n her 30 years of exile, Miriam Makeba redefined pan Africanism. She was a woman with nine passports and honorary citizenship in 10 countries.
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SALUT GLISSANT
“Nothing is true, everything is alive.” Starting from this paradox, Moses März, imagines a conversation between Glissant and his friend and fellow writer Patrick Chamoiseau about the Philosophy of Relation.
Search Sweet Country
In his first novel, and in conversation with Binyavanga Wainaina, Kojo Laing talks to a future Ghana by exposing its present, full of the jargons and certainties of one dimensional nation building.
Genres of the Human
In his new book, The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black […]
Chronic Circulations Bibliography
The new addition of the Chronic asks: What is the African imagination […]
Dislocations in the Congolese World of Sound
“Dislocation” is how Congolese rumba historians describe the incessant splinterings that are […]
TO REFUSE THAT WHICH HAS BEEN REFUSED TO YOU
By Chimurenga on October 19, 2018 in Archive, Arts & Pedagogy, Cash & Commerce, Featured, Healing & bodies, Systems of Governance
Fred Moten and Saidiya Hartman sit down to talk about the temporal […]
The “Walking Corpse”
Thousands of Africans, physically displaced and economically disabled by postcolonial dis-order, confront […]
EVERY JOURNEY IS A READING
By Stacy Hardy My cover is easy. There are a million roles […]
FROM ORLANDO TO ORLANDO
By Roberto Alajmo Background: The ship Mendelsshon—referring to an NGO, and having […]
THINGS THAT GO IN AND OUT OF THE BODY
How can we think about bodies and circulation without deferring to the […]
TO REFUSE THAT WHICH HAS BEEN REFUSED TO YOU
Fred Moten and Saidiya Hartman sit down to talk about the temporal […]
On Circulations and the African Imagination of a Borderless World
Unify us don’t divide us unify us don’t divide us Unify us […]
THE IDEA OF A BORDERLESS WORLD
The capacity to decide who can move, who can settle, where and […]
Rented Grave: Looking beyond the rural-urban dichotomy
Commonplace readings of Africa narrate the village as a segregated space, its […]
The Second German Chronic is Here
The second German-language edition of the Chronic takes up the theme of new […]
Mapping The Last King of Africa
By Chronic on March 19, 2015 in Cash & Commerce, Faith & Ideology, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
This map features alongside a text by Olivier Vallée in the new […]
The Chronic (July 2014)
For the new issue of Chimurenga’s pan African gazette, the Chronic, the […]
The Chronic (December 2013)
The new edition of pan African quarterly, the Chronic, offers forays into […]