Nature, adversity, etc. – A call for proposals for a transdisciplinary residency at Utopiana (Geneva, Switzerland). The propositions may be comprised of artistic projects in different media, workshops, or other forms of interventions. Utopiana is developing its activities around three axes: artist residencies, “Plantopic” – a research and gardening project – and a public event entitled […]
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The Chronic – out now-now
NewsThe new edition of pan African quarterly, 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, […]
Call for submissions: Africa39
NewsWords from Chimurenga friend and contributor, Binyavanga Wainaina, read on: URGENT Call for submissions: Africa39 Dear Friends, Writers, publishers and African Literary organisations, (more…)
The new issue of the Chimurenga Chronic – out now!
NewsPublished by Chimurenga, the Chronic is quarterly pan African newspaper that gives voice to all aspects of life on the continent and celebrates our capacity to continually produce something bold, beautiful and full of humour. Produced in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Nairobi, Paris, Lagos, Yaoundé, Accra, Kinshasa, Dakar, Kampala and Delhi, and distributed globally, it seeks […]
Chimurenga in New York
NewsChimurenga Session Saturday, March 16, 2013 at 3pm New Museum Theater, Bowery Street New York This month Chimurenga is at the New Museum as part of Museum as Hub program doing groundwork for a residency later in the year. We’ll also be presenting a Chimurenga Session on Saturday, March 16 at 3pm at the New […]
Chimurenga Chronic – out now
NewsA 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. Jean-Pierre Bekolo, Binyanvanga Wainaina, Dominique Malaquais, Mahmood Mamdani, Andile Mngxitama, Gwen Ansell, Patrice Nganang, Achal Prabhala, Rustum Kostain, Karen Press, Niq Mhlongo, Paula Akugizibwe, Tolu Ogunlesi, Sean Jacobs, Harmony Holiday, Howard French, […]
Hamba Kahle Liepollo Rantekoa
NewsWe woke on Tuesday 25 September, 2012 to the crushing news of the passing of our beautiful sister, friend and longtime colleague Liepollo. (more…)
The Forest and the Zoo lives on
NewsIn October last year we launched the Chimurenga Chronic, a speculative newspaper set in May 2008, with The Forest and the Zoo – a Blue Notes tribute concert at the Drill Hall in Joburg. (more…)
Call for Propsals from Portal 9, a new Arabic-English journal
NewsCall for Proposals Portal 9, a new Arabic-English journal of stories and critical writing about the city, seeks proposals for its spring 2013 issue, “The Square.” Deadline: September 1, 2012 portal9journal.org (more…)
The Kwani? Manuscript Project
NewsFor at least 60 years the African novel has deconstructed, and even transversed, ideas and imaginaries of self, culture, society and nation across the continent. A self-reflexive continuum, shifting chameleon-like; a receptacle of letters, morphing through the cry of the griot, everyman’s diatribe, madman’s claim of truth or the politician’s manic address. An oracle. (more…)