This week on the Chronic we look at a record of concerns, loves, conflicts and the imagination as documented in the personal letters of James Baldwin, Bessie Head, Albert Luthuli and one Mr A. Toffee.
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How Close are You to this Place?
NewsChimurenga is hiring.
“It’s a Shame, They’ll Never Change”
News“Astral travelling on the back of a moonchild spaceship” with Lefifi Tladi, Tumi Mogorosi and Sibusile Xaba.
Re-membering the Name of God
NewsThis week on the Chronic, we call God by all his names,creep up to the thresholds of Heaven, peak over the silver lining and approach God. In the Upper Room, Florence Madenga cyber-connects to her spirituality. “We are waiting for Apostle Debbie Banda-Viggs, a Malawian evangelist living in McKinney, Texas. None of us have ever […]
The Fiction of International Law
NewsAccording to Wikipedia, International Law is the set of rules generally regarded and accepted as binding in relations between states and between nations. Much of international law is consent-based governance. This means that a state member is not obliged to abide by this type of international law, unless it has expressly consented to a particular course of […]
Remembering Silences
NewsCan a past that the present has not yet caught up with be summoned to haunt the present as an alternative?
Cassava Goes West
NewsCassava Republic to launch in the UK
Life After Oil
NewsWhat culture and what memory will be left of oil, after it has gone?
How Close Are You to This Place?
NewsMeditations on Biafra
Arkestral Dedications and The Frequency of Magic
News“How do we use the language of the coloniser?” Anthony Joseph with Shabaka Hutchings