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Futbol and Politricks

March 8, 2016 by News
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The game seems simple enough. Two teams. 11 people. 1 referee and a field split in half. And the aim, even simpler, get the ball in the back of the net. But there are also the games that played to support The Game.

Let Us Pray

March 1, 2016 by News
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This week on the Chronic online, we look at the beliefs that bring us to our needs. Who do we pray, what do we pray for and what does that mean about how you position yourself in the greater cosmology of faith and criticality?

The Unholy Trinity of Land, Property and Value

December 14, 2015 by News
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The third installment of the African Cities Reader explores the unholy trinity of land, property and value – the life force of cities everywhere. In an era of late modernity marked by a speculative compulsion that takes on a spectral character as it instigates adventures of city imagineering, deal-making and symbolic reinvestment, the material effects […]

The Sahara is not a Boundary

December 14, 2015 by News
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In the minds of many, the Sahara exists as a boundary between the Maghreb and “Black Africa”. History and our lived experience tell a different story. The latest issue of Chimurenga’s pan African gazette, the Chronic, bears testimony to this. Designed in collaboration with Studio Safar in Beirut, and published in its entirety in Arabic […]

PASS at Performa

December 14, 2015 by News
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Pass occupied the Performa 15 Hub in New York with the Chimurenga Library. This multi-tiered programming platform takes the form of a library-of-people, bringing together a broad spectrum of collaborators and literal bodies of knowledge in an improvised, pop-up library which also functions as radio studio and market. The Chimurenga Library engages trade as both […]

Presenting Chimurenga Chronic New Cartographies

April 14, 2015 by News
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On Thursday, the 23rd of April 2015, Chimurenga presents the latest issue of the Chronic. Join us for a conversation with Ntone Edjabe (Chimurenga), Billy Kahora (Kwani), Achille Mbembe (Wits), and artists Nolan Oswald Dennis and Francis Burger. Since its launch in 2011, every edition of The Chronic has engaged with this question: when will […]

Stories about Music in Africa // A Comet is Coming

December 8, 2014 by News
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Throughout 2014 Chimurenga has been connecting with cutting-edge artists and music collectives from around the continent to prepare unique recordings for Pan African Space Station (PASS). On Thursday December 11, the first of these monthly broadcasts goes live bringing together Shabaka Hutchings and The Brother Moves On.