Chimurenga
Chimurenga 15: The Curriculum is Everything - A call for submissions
Airport sounds from a distance, blurred, incomprehensible, then suddenly loud and clear. "Flight sixty-nine has been..." Static ... fades into the distance ... "Flight..." Standing to one side of the desk are three men, grinning with joy at their prospective destinations. When I present myself at the desk, the woman says: "You haven't had your education yet."
- William Burroughs, My Education: A Book of Dreams
Who be teacher, I go let you know...
- Fela Anikulapo Kuti, "Teacher Don’t Teach Me Nonsense"
The Curriculum is Everything - A call for submissions. Details here.
Chimurenga 14 - NOW OUT!!!
Chimurenga 14, Everyone Has Their Indian features words and images on the Third World project and links, real and imagined, between Africa and South Asia.
Contributors include: M. Neelika Jayawardane, Emily Raboteau, Rasheed Araeen, Martin Kimani, Shailja Patel, Rustum Kozain, Kai Friese, Amitav Ghosh, Manu Herbstein, J.S. Saxena, Ranjith Kally, Vivek Narayanan, Achal Prabhala, Akin Adesokan, Neo Muyanga, Philippe Rekacewicz, Percy Zvomuya, Mahmood Mamdani, Binyavanga Wainaina, Raqs Media Collective, Pravasan Pillay, Rigo 23, Andile Mngxitama, Naeem Mohaiemen, Tsuba Ka 23, Girija Tropp, Robben Island Museum, Speculative Archive and many more.
Read more here. View the webverts here and here.
Chimurenga Online
"Nous voici donc en 2010, cinquante ans après la décolonisation. Y-a-t-il vraiment quoi que ce soit à commémorer ou faut-il au contraire tout reprendre ?" Cinquante ans de décolonisation africaine par Achille Mbembe.
RIP Mbella Sonne Dipoko & Dennis Brutus; call for submissions for AFRICAN CITIES READER II: Mobilities & Fixtures; Black Diamonds, Native Nostalgia, Bantu Ghosts, books, poetry podcasts, comics, Medu Art, a new Fela film in this this month's news.
African Cities Reader
Call for submissions for the AFRICAN CITIES READER II: Mobilities & Fixtures: "It seems apparent to us that African cities are quintessentially defined by incessant mobilities. And as people make their way in cities that are incapable of dealing with their presence, they continuously come to terms with the fact that the way of the city is a game of hide-and-seek..." Details here.
Chris Abani, Nuruddin Farah, Akin Adesokan, Gabeba Baderoon, Karen Press, José Eduardo Agualusa, Ashraf Jamal, Dominique Malaquais, Annie Paul, Teju Cole, Achal Prabhala and more explore "Pan-African Practices" in the Launch Issue of the African Cities Reader. [A creation of the African Centre for Cities & Chimurenga Magazine].
Pan African Space Station
The Pan African Space Station is a 30-day music intervention from September 12 - October 12, on radio and the internet, as well as venues across greater Cape Town.
Listen to PASSCAST from last year's festival, including world renowned groove tastemaker, DJ Andy Williams' PASS 2009 radio and DJ session; Raps Reloaded edutainment; DJ Ntone, Real Rozzano and Boeta Gee; Nonkululeko Godana, Plan Be and more.
Chimurenga Library
The Chimurenga Library is an online archive of pan African, independent periodicals. It focuses on cultural and literary magazines, both living and extinct, which have been influential platforms for dissent and which have broadened the scope for print publishing on art, new writing and ideas in and about Africa.
View samples issues of Civil Lines, Ecrans d'Afrique, Frank Talk, Glendora Review, Hambone, Hei Voetsek!, Molotov Cocktail, Moto, Savacou, Staffrider, Wietie and more.