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Chimurenga at MOMA

Chimurenga is featured in Millenium Magazine, a survey of experimental art and design magazines published since 2000, opening at the Museum of Modern Art in New York on February 20. The collection of over a hundred publications explores the various ways in which contemporary artists and designers utilize the magazine format as an experimental space […]

Chimurenga at In Print in Cairo

Chimurenga is on view as part of ‘In Print,’ a project that looks at alternative approaches to the printed page at the The Townhouse Gallery in Cairo. For the project three Cairo-based, conceptually diverse DIY initiatives (Zine El-Arab, TokTok, and Cairobserver) have set up temporary printing bureaus in Townhouse’s First Floor Gallery. Over the next […]

It Begins with a Place

Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts’ first book, Harlem Is Nowhere fuses seemingly disparate elements of history, philosophy, journalism and prose in an attempt to untangle the myth and meaning of Harlem’s legacy. Formally, she never tires of digression, evoking voices from Harlem’s past and present to convey a reality that is multidimensional and complex in its simultaneity, as […]

One Day I Will Write About This Place – a Chimurenga Session featuring Binyavanga Wainaina

Join us in Cape Town to launch long-time Chimurenga collaborator, Kwani? founding editor and celebrated writer, Binyavanga Wainaina’s groundbreaking new memoire, One Day I Will Write About This Place. December 2 from 6.30pm at the Slave Church on Long Street, Cape Town Wainaina will read from his book followed by a discussion session with Centre […]

The Chimurenga Chronic – available now!

Chimurenga Magazine‘s new issue, the Chimurenga Chronic, a speculative newspaper set in May 2008, is now available online via the Chimurenga Shop, and on the streets, in spaza shops and in bookstores. The Chronic comprises of a 128-page multi-section broadsheet; the stand-alone 40 page Chronic Life Magazine; and the 96 page Chronic Book Review Magazine. […]