“The 2012 presidential election campaign is well under way when Barack Obama succumbs to a sudden heart attack. Vice-President Biden is sworn in as President and the Democratic Party recalls its convention. Jesse Jackson makes a powerful speech proposing that the party adopt Michelle Obama as their candidate. What happens next?” Get Chimurenga person, Manu […]
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African Cities Reader II: Mobilities & Fixtures – Out Now!
NewsThe African Cities Reader is a biennial publication that brings together contributors from across Africa and the world to challenge the prevailing depiction of urban life on the continent and redefine cityness, Africa-style. It is a joint creation of Chimurenga Magazine and the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town. The second […]
JM Coetzee, White Writing & the Chimurenga Library
News“I guess I realised, even then, that I was being asked to be the Sole Brown Representative in a book of essays about JM Coetzee. I couldn’t do it. Instead, I wrote about how that experience taught me a thing or two about the reification of ‘white’ culture by scholars of Southern African literature, via […]
Barack Obama: Une certaine figure de notre monde
NewsAchille Mbembe Je suis arrivé en Caroline du Nord à la fin du mois de septembre. C’est en partie dans cet ancien État esclavagiste du Sud des États-Unis que j’ai suivi les cinq dernières semaines de la campagne pour les présidentielles américaines. Cette note, je l’écris après minuit, à quelques heures seulement de l’ouverture des […]