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.
Senegal & Festac 77
After New York in October 2019, and in the spirit of the trans-continentalism (aka Black World) of the event, we return to Dakar to celebrate the release of Chimurenga’s new publication on FESTAC ’77 – in collaboration with RAW Material Company.
FESTAC ’77: PASS Playlist
A Festac 77 Mixtape featuring Randy Weston, Mandla Langa, Carlos Moore, The Blue Notes, Keorapetse Kgositsile, Michael McMillan, Miriam Makeba, Gilberto Gil, Tabu Ley Rochereau, Ray Lema and of course, Fela Kuti (voiced by Kolade Arogundade).
FESTAC ’77 Celebration in New York City – 23 – 25 October 2019
From 23 – 25 October 2019, Chimurenga will install its Pan African Space Station (PASS) at The New School’s Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries, New York City.
FESTAC 77 BOOK – Sample spreads
448 pages, colour illustrations featuring extensive unseen photographic and archival materials, interviews and new commissions.
Steal Back the Treasure
In pirating the head of Queen Idia to use it as a logo for Festac 77 , proposes another dissonant route that challenges the very idea of the work of art as unique object.
“We should take out that word ‘national’ and reconstruct that word ‘theatre’….
By Chronic on August 1, 2019 in Arts & Pedagogy, Cash & Commerce, Chimurenga Library, Media & Propaganda
Perfect, perfect, you have solved the problem for me, we have deconstructed the idea of National Theatre. We have taken the national and thrown it in the dust bin.
Crossroads Republic
The Nigerian superstar bandleader Fela Anikulapo-Kuti hosted a covert summit meeting in the summer of 1977.
The Pharaoh’s New Clothes
By Chronic on July 26, 2019 in Archive, Books & Oration, Chimurenga Library, Faith & Ideology, Systems of Governance
Its location, vocation, and publication intended to speak to a politicised Third World imaginary.
Panafest
From January 15 to February 12 1977, thousands of artists, writers, musicians, […]
PASS is going to Australia!
By Chronic on March 6, 2019 in Archive, Arts & Pedagogy, Chimurenga Library, Media & Propaganda, PASS, Systems of Governance
From 11 -13 April, as part of an exhibition hosted by Monash […]
Festac ’77 – a faction by Akin Adesokan
By Chronic on December 9, 2018 in Arts & Pedagogy, Chimurenga Library, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
Was Festac 77 curated by Esu Elegba? Akin Adesokan’s faction explores art […]
FESTAC ’77 – the Book and LP soon come!
Early in 1977, thousands of artists, writers, musicians, activists and scholars from […]
The Chimurenga Library at The Showroom, London.
For our first UK presentation, Chimurenga will infiltrate The Showroom’s building in […]
Timbuktu: An Old African Saying
“The gazelle for me symbolises beauty and grace,” Sissako told the Bloomington audience. Then, he added, “Beauty will save the world,”
Archie Shepp’s Shirt Suggests
The moment has stayed with every person who witnessed it. Archie Shepp improvising live on the street, surrounded by hundreds of onlookers in a trance induced by his otherworldly beats.