The Way I See It: We Need New Myths
By Chronic / September 27, 2024
Perhaps the use of alternative points of emphasis is an attempt to subvert easy comprehension by those outside the community. “Who no know go know,” as Fela said.
Somewhere between a scream and a lullaby
By Chimurenga / June 18, 2024
In a city where the boundaries between life and death are laid bare, artists are birthing new spaces for dreaming ‘other ways of breathing’. Stacy Hardy reports from Kinshasa.
Sammy Baloji exhibition – ‘Mémoire’
By Chimurenga / April 9, 2024
‘Mémoire’ shows the heritage of colonial times and at the same time points towards the huge economical gain colonial masters had from the mines.
CONFESSIONS OF A CLOSET SOYINKA PLAGIARIST
By Chimurenga / May 3, 2023
A letter from Ibadan by Harry Garuba
REVIEW: AND THE BOOKS LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER
By Chimurenga / May 3, 2023
Harry Garuba reviews reissues of Amos Tutuola’s writings
CHIMURENGA@20: IN PRAISE OF INDIGENOUS AFRICAN WORDFORM
By Chimurenga / November 24, 2022
Have African literary forms been lost in a morass of European culture? For more than half a century Taban Lo Liyong has lamented thus.
I’M NOT WHO YOU THINK I’M NOT
By Chimurenga / November 11, 2022
Serubiri Moses reflects on Binyavanga Wainaina’s refusal to fit neatly into neat identities.
I am a homosexual, Mum
By Chimurenga / November 9, 2022
A lost chapter from One Day I Will Write About This Place
CHIMURENGA@20: Midway Between Silence and Speech
By Chimurenga / November 4, 2022
The art and incarnation of Justine Gaga.
CHIMURENGA@20: MURIMI MUNHU
By Chimurenga / September 26, 2022
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 / September 19, 2022
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
IN MEMORIAM: OMOSEYE BOLAJI (1964-2022)
By Chimurenga / June 7, 2022
We remember Nigerian-born writer, Omoseye Bolaji (1964-2022), and his immense contribution to the growth of African literature in South Africa, and particularly in the Free State, where he lived.
Ready, Willing & Able
By Chimurenga / January 12, 2022
Lolade Adewuyi profiles one of the continent’s most successful football coaches – the Big Boss, as he is widely referred to – and considers the arguments for more faith, more respect and more investment in the abilities of home-grown trainers.
ALL I CAN SAY FOR NOW
By Chimurenga / October 19, 2021
By Jean-Christophe Lanquetin (translated by Dominique Malaquais)
READING FRED HO
By Chimurenga / September 13, 2021
Gwen Ansell and Salim Washington celebrate the revolutionary life, language and hard-ass leadership of an unconventional saxophonist, composer and generous collaborator.
Translating Tram 83
By Chronic / August 16, 2021
Roland Glasser meets author Fiston Mwanza Mujila in Paris while getting to […]
WHO WILL SAVE THE SAVIOURS?
By Chimurenga / August 11, 2021
A close gaze at the collective apathy that killed Dr. Sebi
From Seven Modes for Hood Science
By Chimurenga / August 11, 2021
The black spirit is universally sick with dissimulation and at the same time triumphant in its incessantly performed healing, having turned suffering into a kind of spectacular wellness
THIRD TRANSITION
By Chimurenga / July 27, 2021
Shoks Mzolo and Bongani Kona trace the path of South Africa’s transformation from a criminal apartheid state to a criminal neoliberal state
War and Spirits
By Chronic / July 21, 2021
By Kirby Mania The timing of the publication of Confession of the […]
You Have No Power Here
By Chronic / July 21, 2021
Karen Press reviews three first collections from publishing house uHlanga that add welcome breadth to the range of South African poetry
Between the Lines of an Unpatriotic Presidential Pre-Recorded Address
By Chimurenga / June 23, 2021
FOURTH REPUBLIC 19 conducts a post-mortem on not-so-presidential minutes in recorded Nigerian history.
The Enemy in Her Imagination: A Fable
By Chimurenga / June 9, 2021
Rahel first met the young, 11-year old boy, on December 21, 2006. That was the day after the war in Somalia was declared.
THE SUMMER OF ’69
By Chimurenga / April 27, 2021
Writer Pierre Crépon selects recordings illustrating his essay on the American avant-garde jazz in Paris in 1969.
Remember Glissant
By Chimurenga / April 12, 2021
Moses März writes of Édouard Glissant, Martinican, poet and compatriot of the more celebrated Aimé Césaire and Frantz Fanon
CHIMURENGA CHRONIC – IMAGI-NATION NWAR – OUT NOW!
By Chimurenga / March 24, 2021
A new issue of Chimurenga’s Chronic – out now. imagi-nation nwar – […]
On the Digital Application of Ancestral Work
By Chimurenga / January 21, 2021
African spirituality as practiced digitally was amplified by COVID-19.
Your Own Hand Sold You: Voluntary servitude in the Francafrique
By Chronic / December 28, 2020
In the CFA franc, the French colonial mission in West Africa found a way to ensure a paternalist and pernicious stranglehold on the economies of a vast region of the continent.
Creative Urban Momentum: Witnessing the Black Unity Trio
By Chimurenga / November 17, 2020
In anticipation of the release of Black Unity Trios’ legendary album, Al Fatihah, Hasan Abdur-Razzaq recalls witnessing their rehearsals in the late 1960s.
Where Terror Lies
By Chimurenga / September 15, 2020
The rhetoric of ‘radical’ and ‘fundamentalist’ Islam, of ‘global jihad’ and ‘terror’ is, ironically, historical and recoverable from the irrational.
Nigeria’s Superstar Men Of God
By Chimurenga / September 8, 2020
Who needs the God of the bible with his promises of trials and tribulations, crosses and paths of repentance? Yemisi Aribisala listens to the sermons, counts the money, watches the high-flying life of Nigeria’s mega-preachers and wonders.
Nigeria’s Superstar Men Of God
By Chimurenga / September 8, 2020
Who needs the God of the bible with his promises of trials and tribulations, crosses and paths of repentance? Yemisi Aribisala listens to the sermons, counts the money, watches the high-flying life of Nigeria’s mega-preachers and wonders.
We Make Our Own Food (April 2017)
By Chimurenga / September 3, 2020
In this issue, we put food back on the table: to restore the interdependence between the mouth that eats and the mouth that speaks, and to delve deeper into the subtle tactics of resistance and private practices that make food both a subversive art and a site of pleasure.
The Invention of Zimbabwe (April 2018)
By Chimurenga / September 3, 2020
14 November 2017. News breaks of a coup d’état underway in Zimbabwe. Tanks, armoured vehicles and military personnel are seen patrolling the capital, Harare. The images send shock waves through social media, traditional broadcast news networks and diplomatic channels
The Chronic (August 2013)
By Chimurenga / September 3, 2020
Writers in the broadsheet include Jon Soske, Paula Akugizibwe, Yves Mintoogue, Adewale Maja-Pearce, Parsalelo Kantai, Fred Moten & Stefano Harney, Cedric Vincent, Deji Toye, Derin Ajao, Tony Mochama, Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah,Agri Ismaïl, Lindokuhle Nkosi, Bongani Kona, Stacy Hardy, Emmanuel Induma, Ugochukwu-Smooth Nzewi, Lolade Ayewudi, Simon Kuper and many others.
The Chronic (December 2013)
By Chimurenga / September 3, 2020
This edition of the Chronic, offers forays into interlaced subjects of power, resistance, protest, mobilisation, mobility and belonging. Marked by an urgency to unsettle divides between opportunism and opportunity, life and liberation, here and there, and then and now-now, the newspaper acts as a platform from which to engage the practices, dilemmas and possibilities of different world.
The Chronic (July 2014)
By Chimurenga / September 3, 2020
For the new issue of Chimurenga’s pan African gazette, the Chronic, the focus is on graphic stories; comic journalism. Blending illustrations, photography, written analysis, infographics, interviews, letters and more, visual narratives speak of everyday complexities in the Africa in which we live.
New Cartographies (March 2015)
By Chimurenga / September 3, 2020
We understand the role of cartography as a tool of imperialism. However, in this edition of the Chronic, we ask: what if maps were made by Africans for their own use, to understand and make visible their own realities or imaginaries?
Muzmin (July 2015)
By Chimurenga / September 3, 2020
In the minds of many, the Sahara exists as a boundary between the Maghreb and “Black Africa”. History and our lived experience tell a different story. The latest issue of Chimurenga’s pan African gazette, the Chronic,
The Chronic (April 2016)
By Chimurenga / September 3, 2020
In the fall of 2015, universities across South Africa were engulfed by fires ignited by students’ discontent with the racial discrimination and colonialism that still defines the country’s institutes of higher education.
The Corpse Exhibition [and Other Graphic Stories] (August 2016)
By Chimurenga / September 3, 2020
This issue of Chimurenga’s pan-African quarterly gazette, the Chronic, explores ideas around mythscience, science fiction and graphic storytelling. Like previous editions of the Chronic,
The Chronic (April 2013)
By Chimurenga / September 3, 2020
A 48-page newspaper and 40-page stand-alone books review magazine featuring writing, art and photography inflected by the workings of innovation, creativity and resistance.
On Circulations and the African Imagination of a Borderless World (October 2018)
By Chimurenga / September 3, 2020
What is the African imagination of a borderless world? What are our ideas on territoriality, borders and movement? How to move beyond so-called progressive discourse on “freedom of movement”
The Meaning of Being Numerous
By Chimurenga / August 5, 2020
The man who sets up the bomb is long gone before it goes off.
Yellow Fever, Nko?
By Chimurenga / July 24, 2020
Skin bleaching is often described as a manifestation of ‘colo-mentality’. However, argues Bibi Bakare-Yusuf, mimesis here is both an affirmation and a contestation of power.
They Won’t Go When I Go
By Chimurenga / June 29, 2020
A Manifesto/ Meditation on State of Black Archives in America and throughout the Diaspora by Harmony Holiday
How Third World Students Liberated the West
By Chimurenga / June 23, 2020
In a twist to mainstream tropes of radical student movements of the 1960s, and their impact on the history of political thought and action, Pedro Monaville argues that the terrains of the Third World, and particularly the history of student movements in Congo, are vital to explore if we are to makes sense of how that period informs the present.
Remembering Biafra
By Chronic / November 13, 2019
In 1968, Nigeria’s finance minister, agricultural produce mogul Obafemi Awolowo declared: “Starvation is a legitimate weapon of war, and we have every intention to use it against the rebels.”