“Goddy Leye has left us. It was February 19, 2011, shortly after midnight. In Karachi, at the edge of the desert where it never rains in this season, the heavens opened. Rain….” Dominique Malaquais pays tribute to artist, friend, mentor, comrade Goddy Leye who recently passed away. (more…)

Through the annual Prince Claus Award, the Fund honours eleven cultural pioneers, for their outstanding achievements in the field of culture and development. Chimurenga is honoured to receive the Prince Claus Fund’s 2011 Principal Award, and congratulates the 2011 laureates.  We thank the Prince Clause Fund for their recognition of our work over the past […]

The release of the Chimurenga Chronic on 19 October, 2011 will be preceded by a 6 week long public art intervention in the form of a newspaper poster campaign in the cities of Johannesburg and Cape Town, South Africa; Lagos, Nigeria; Nairobi, Kenya; Goteborg, Sweden, and here, in cyberspace. Where traditional newspapers announce their content through ‘Newspaper headline posters’, the Chimurenga Chronic will pose questions as provocations. (more…)

Neo Muyanga and The Chimurenga Chronic present DIPALO a mixtape for those who practice counting Composed, arranged and performed byNeo Muyanga, this audio cd supplement is part of the Chimurenga Chronicle, a speculative newspaper which is issue 16 of Chimurenga. Get the Tracklist and more info here.

The next issue of Chimurenga Magazine takes the form of The Chronic, a once-off, one-day-only edition of a speculative, future-forward newspaper that travels back in time to re-imagine the present. Produced in collaboration with Nigeria’s Cassava Republic Press and Kenya’s Kwani?, it is a multi-section broadsheet with news, long-form journalism, comics, sport, art etc. and […]

Cassava Republic are now the West Africa distributors of Chimurenga. For orders and info, contact chimurenga@cassavarepublic.biz or visit www.cassavarepublic.biz. You can also get your Cassava Republic books from Chimurenga now. (more…)

“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 […]

The 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 […]