Chimurenga has teamed up with The Showroom and The Otolith Collective for a PASS pop-up studio as part of The Chimurenga Library. From Wednesday 7 October until Sunday 11 October, PASS presents a live broadcasting programme of music, interviews and events with Chimurenga collaborators in London including musicians, journalists, writers, curators and filmmakers. Participants include: Agency for Agency, […]
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Cityscapes #5: Design will not save the city
NewsCities occupy and mark space in very real and physical terms. There is nothing ephemeral about any city, whatever its size, nor is there anything abstract about the consequences that flow from a poor design decision. While important in debating the outcome of urban interventions, qualitative assessments like “good” and “bad” are not the central […]
Eno’s Story
NewsEno lives happily with her father, until one day he disappears in an accident. Her uncle says that she is a “witch” who has caused her father’s death. She goes through many struggles before moving in with other children who have also been called “witches” and have been sent away from home. This moving story, […]
Eno’s Story
NewsEno lives happily with her father, until one day he disappears in an accident. Her uncle says that she is a “witch” who has caused her father’s death. She goes through many struggles before moving in with other children who have also been called “witches” and have been sent away from home. This moving story, […]
When You Kill Us We Rule. Fela Anikulapo Kuti’s Last Interview
NewsIn 1996, Keziah Jones visited Kalakuta Republic every day for a week to interview Fela Anikulapo Kuti. On the fifth day, after waiting six hours, Keziah got to speak with Fela, who he remarked kept you in “constant and direct eye contact” and spoke “in short bursts of baritone.” He added, “In the three hours […]
Poster Bundle
NewsReform and Revolution: Destruction of the University
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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 protests broadcast on televisions around the world were neither without precedent nor without parallel. The University in Africa, and indeed South Africa, […]
New Myths …. coming now now
NewsSibusile Xaba x Lefifi Tladi x Tumi Mogorosi… full video coming soon
PAN AFRICAN SPACE STATION presents: FOKN Bois
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Saturday, 10 September 2016. From 7pm at Greatmore Studios, Cape Town
Yakhal’Inkomo
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An explosive bellow from the spiritual heart of the black experience, saxophonist and composer Winston Mankunku’s Ngozi’s Yakhal’Inkomo is at once a call to action, an open letter and a prayer. Recorded in 1968, as a cry mourning the Sharpeville massacre, and reinvoked in Mongane Wally Serote’s 1972 collection of poems, it tasks us with […]