Chimurenga magazine
Encyclopedia
Chimurenga is a publication, of arts, culture and politics from and about Africa and its diasporas
, founded and edited by Ntone Edjabe
. Both the title Chimurenga
(a Shona
word loosely translated as "liberation struggle") and the content capture the connection between African cultures and politics on the continent and beyond.
promoted by Kalakuta Trust and founded by Ntone Edjabe
. It is based in Cape Town
South Africa
but its network is international. Chimurenga focuses on Africa
and its diaspora
, aiming at capturing the connection between African cultures and politics on the continent and beyond. Chimurenga gradually began developing a series of publications, events (called Chimurenga Sessions) and specific projects.
exhibition in Kassel
; in 2008 it was reviewed by an article of The New York Times
Its director Ntone Edjabe
talks about the magazine and its approach during numerous interviews and conferences also at the Centre Pompidou in Parigi and the Art Academy in Berlin in 2005, at the Dakar Biennale in 2006 and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
in 2009.
In particular the capacity of Chimurenga of influencing ideas and writing and its role as an innovative educational model is recognised by initiatives such as Meanwhile in Africa... in 2005, Mobile A2K del 2009 and Learning Machines: Art Education and Alternative Production of Knowledge in 2010.
In 2010 Chimurenga starts a collaboration with the magazine Glänta to translate Chimurenga into Swedish.
immortalised. Another featured Neo Muyanga’s portrait of Steve Biko
's bruised face. The first edition showed Peter Tosh
at a gig in Swaziland
in the early 80s. Tosh is pointing an AK-47-shaped guitar in the direction of South Africa
and chanting down Babylon.
Chimurenga orients itself not only to radical people that form its immediate target group, but also to the lay reader. It is distributed in South Africa
, Zimbabwe
, Mozambique
, Kenya
, Swaziland
, Botswana
and Ghana
. Its distribution has seen it read on campuses in Germany
, the United States
, Great Britain
and France
.
The magazine has featured work by emerging as well as established voices including Njabulo Ndebele
, Lesego Rampolokeng
, Santu Mofokeng, Keorapetse Kgositsile
, Gael Reagon, Binyavanga Wainaina
, Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
, Boubacar Boris Diop
, Tanure Ojaide
, Dominique Malaquais, Stacy Hardy
, Goddy Leye
, Zwelethu Mthethwa
, Mahmood Mamdani
, Jorge Matine, and Greg Tate
, among others.
Chimurenga also has a monthly online edition which presents other short contributions not directly connected to the themes of the paper publication.
Keziah Jones
, When You Kill Us, We Rule!: Fela Anikulapo Kuti
's Last Interview Dominique Malaquais, Blood Money: A Douala
Chronicle Njabulo Ndebele
, Thinking of Brenda
Achille Mbembe
, Variations on the Beautiful in the Congolese World of Sounds
Odia Ofeimun, In Defence of the Films We've Made
; it presents general information on the magazines and a sort of genealogy
which links the publications to others.
The magazines and publications presented on the Chimurenga Library are African Film, Amkenah, Black Images, Chief Priest Say, Civil Lines
, Ecrans d'Afrique
, Frank Talk
Glendora Review
, Hambone
, Hei Voetsek!, Joe
, L'Autre Afrique, Lamalif
, Mfumu'eto, Molotov Cocktail
, Moto
, Okyeame
, Revue Noire
, Savacou
, Souffles, Spear
, Staffrider
, Straight No Chaser
, The Book of Tongues, The Cricket: Black Music in Evolution
, The Liberator Magazine
, The uncollected writings of Greg Tate, Third Text
, Tsotso, Two Tone, Unir Cinéma, Wietie
, Y Magazine (first five issues).
Some artists, writers and intellectuals are invited to contribute to the presentations of the magazines with texts and videos. Have contributed to the Chimurenga Library Rustum Kozain
, Vivek Narayanan, Patrice Nganang
, Khulile Nxumalo, Sean O'Toole, Achal Prabhala
, Suren Pillay, Lesego Rampolokeng
, Tracey Rose
, Ivan Vladislavic
, Barbara Murray
, Akin Adesokan, Nicole Turner, Tunde Giwa, Brian Chikwava
, Judy Kibinge, Olu Oguibe
, Sam Kahiga, Mike Abrahams, Sola Olorunyomi, Marie-Louise Bibish Mumbu, Nadi Edwards, Brent Hayes Edwards, Sharifa Rhodes Pitts, Jean-Pierre Bekolo
e Aryan Kaganof
.
In 2009 Chimurenga Library is shown with the title Chimurenga Library: An introspective of Chimurenga at Cape Town Central Library with a series of multimedia itineraries (reading routs e sound posts) and live events (music, readings, meetings with authors, projections and wiki workshop during which students are involved in producing Wikipedia articles). The idea of the presentation is to rethink a library as a laboratory which can trigger curiosity, adventures, critical thinking, activism, entertainment and random reading. The show presents panafrican independent periodicals, and the exhibition Why Must A Black Writer Write About Sex, a selection of texts on sex from African literature
which confront stereotypes on sexuality and literature genres.
. The initiative is promoted by Ntone Edjabe and Neo Muyanga (The Heliocentrics) in collaboration with Africa Centre
and it is organised in 2008, 2009 and 2010.
for two weeks to explore the complexity of urban landscapes. Pilgrimages commissioned travel books which narrate the experiences and the first African World Cup
. The writers selected and their cities are Akenji Ndumu in Abidjan
, Kojo Laing in Cape Town
, Funmi Iyanda
in Durban
, Doreen Baingana
in Hargeisa
, Chris Abani
in Johannesburg
, Victor LaValle in Kampala
, Nimco Mahamud Hassan in Khartoum
, Alain Mabanckou
in Lagos
, Billy Kahora in Luanda
, Nicole Turner in Nairobi
, Abdourahman A. Waberi in Salvador
, Uzodinma Iweala
in Tombouctou
and Binyavanga Wainaina
in Touba
. Pilgrimages is promoted by the Chinua Achebe Center for African Writers and Artists of Bard College
in collaboration with Chimurenga, Kwani Trust and Kachifo Limited
and with the support among others of Open Society Foundation South Africa, Karibu Foundation, Doen Foundation, Heinrich Böll Foundation
and Hivos
.
. Each issue is focussed on a specific theme and it is edited by Ntone Edjabe and Edgar Pieterse.
African diaspora
The African diaspora was the movement of Africans and their descendants to places throughout the world—predominantly to the Americas also to Europe, the Middle East and other places around the globe...
, founded and edited by Ntone Edjabe
Ntone Edjabe
- Life and career :Ntone Edjabe was born in Douala and he moved to Lagos where he began his studies. In 1993 he interrupted his studies to move to South Africa. He works as journalist, writer and DJ and basketball coach. He became co-founder and manager of the Pan African Market in 1997, a...
. Both the title Chimurenga
Chimurenga
Chimurenga is a Shona word for 'revolutionary struggle'. The word's modern interpretation has been extended to describe a struggle for human rights, political dignity and social justice, specifically used for the African insurrections against British colonial rule 1896–1897 and the guerrilla war...
(a Shona
Shona language
Shona is a Bantu language, native to the Shona people of Zimbabwe and southern Zambia; the term is also used to identify peoples who speak one of the Shona language dialects: Zezuru, Karanga, Manyika, Ndau and Korekore...
word loosely translated as "liberation struggle") and the content capture the connection between African cultures and politics on the continent and beyond.
History
Chimurenga was launched in 2002 as a magazineMagazine
Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles. They are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three...
promoted by Kalakuta Trust and founded by Ntone Edjabe
Ntone Edjabe
- Life and career :Ntone Edjabe was born in Douala and he moved to Lagos where he began his studies. In 1993 he interrupted his studies to move to South Africa. He works as journalist, writer and DJ and basketball coach. He became co-founder and manager of the Pan African Market in 1997, a...
. It is based in Cape Town
Cape Town
Cape Town is the second-most populous city in South Africa, and the provincial capital and primate city of the Western Cape. As the seat of the National Parliament, it is also the legislative capital of the country. It forms part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality...
South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
but its network is international. Chimurenga focuses on Africa
Africa
Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...
and its diaspora
Diaspora
A diaspora is "the movement, migration, or scattering of people away from an established or ancestral homeland" or "people dispersed by whatever cause to more than one location", or "people settled far from their ancestral homelands".The word has come to refer to historical mass-dispersions of...
, aiming at capturing the connection between African cultures and politics on the continent and beyond. Chimurenga gradually began developing a series of publications, events (called Chimurenga Sessions) and specific projects.
Notability
Chimurenga is reviewed by newspapers and magazines and it is presented inside conferences, events and exhibitions. In 2007, it was part of the Documenta magazine project within DocumentaDocumenta
documenta is an exhibition of modern and contemporary art which takes place every five years in Kassel, Germany. It was founded by artist, teacher and curator Arnold Bode in 1955 as part of the Bundesgartenschau which took place in Kassel at that time...
exhibition in Kassel
Kassel
Kassel is a town located on the Fulda River in northern Hesse, Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Kassel Regierungsbezirk and the Kreis of the same name and has approximately 195,000 inhabitants.- History :...
; in 2008 it was reviewed by an article of The New York Times
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
Its director Ntone Edjabe
Ntone Edjabe
- Life and career :Ntone Edjabe was born in Douala and he moved to Lagos where he began his studies. In 1993 he interrupted his studies to move to South Africa. He works as journalist, writer and DJ and basketball coach. He became co-founder and manager of the Pan African Market in 1997, a...
talks about the magazine and its approach during numerous interviews and conferences also at the Centre Pompidou in Parigi and the Art Academy in Berlin in 2005, at the Dakar Biennale in 2006 and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...
in 2009.
In particular the capacity of Chimurenga of influencing ideas and writing and its role as an innovative educational model is recognised by initiatives such as Meanwhile in Africa... in 2005, Mobile A2K del 2009 and Learning Machines: Art Education and Alternative Production of Knowledge in 2010.
In 2010 Chimurenga starts a collaboration with the magazine Glänta to translate Chimurenga into Swedish.
Activities
Chimurenga produces its magazine but also other publications, events and specific projects.Magazine
Chimurenga is a magazine. Its first issue is published in April 2002. Each issue has a specific theme. Started as a quarterly, Chimurenga now appears approximately three times a year. Interrogating the superficial has always been the core agenda of the publication. The various renegades are captured in a series of profiles "thinking out loud". Chimurenga shies away from the Q&A format and includes deconstructed and imagined interviews, surreal short stories and poetry and other devices that challenge strict notions of fact and fiction. Covers are equally indicative of the orientation of a journal which is at once theoretical, erotic, provocative. One cover featured the words of Strange Fruit, the song about Southern lynchings that Billie HolidayBillie Holiday
Billie Holiday was an American jazz singer and songwriter. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and musical partner Lester Young, Holiday had a seminal influence on jazz and pop singing...
immortalised. Another featured Neo Muyanga’s portrait of Steve Biko
Steve Biko
Stephen Biko was a noted anti-apartheid activist in South Africa in the 1960s and 1970s. A student leader, he later founded the Black Consciousness Movement which would empower and mobilize much of the urban black population. Since his death in police custody, he has been called a martyr of the...
's bruised face. The first edition showed Peter Tosh
Peter Tosh
Peter Tosh, born Winston Hubert McIntosh , was a Jamaican reggae musician who was a core member of the band The Wailers , and who afterward had a successful solo career as well as being a promoter of Rastafari.Peter Tosh was born in Grange Hill, Jamaica, an illegitimate child to a mother too young...
at a gig in Swaziland
Swaziland
Swaziland, officially the Kingdom of Swaziland , and sometimes called Ngwane or Swatini, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa, bordered to the north, south and west by South Africa, and to the east by Mozambique...
in the early 80s. Tosh is pointing an AK-47-shaped guitar in the direction of South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
and chanting down Babylon.
Chimurenga orients itself not only to radical people that form its immediate target group, but also to the lay reader. It is distributed in South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
, Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe is a landlocked country located in the southern part of the African continent, between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers. It is bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia and a tip of Namibia to the northwest and Mozambique to the east. Zimbabwe has three...
, Mozambique
Mozambique
Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique , is a country in southeastern Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west and Swaziland and South Africa to the southwest...
, Kenya
Kenya
Kenya , officially known as the Republic of Kenya, is a country in East Africa that lies on the equator, with the Indian Ocean to its south-east...
, Swaziland
Swaziland
Swaziland, officially the Kingdom of Swaziland , and sometimes called Ngwane or Swatini, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa, bordered to the north, south and west by South Africa, and to the east by Mozambique...
, Botswana
Botswana
Botswana, officially the Republic of Botswana , is a landlocked country located in Southern Africa. The citizens are referred to as "Batswana" . Formerly the British protectorate of Bechuanaland, Botswana adopted its new name after becoming independent within the Commonwealth on 30 September 1966...
and Ghana
Ghana
Ghana , officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country located in West Africa. It is bordered by Côte d'Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, Togo to the east, and the Gulf of Guinea to the south...
. Its distribution has seen it read on campuses in Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
, the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
, Great Britain
Great Britain
Great Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles...
and France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
.
The magazine has featured work by emerging as well as established voices including Njabulo Ndebele
Njabulo Ndebele
Professor Njabulo Simakahle Ndebele , an academic, a literary and a writer of fiction, is the former Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Cape Town.- Life and career :...
, Lesego Rampolokeng
Lesego Rampolokeng
Lesego Rampolokeng is a South African writer, playwright and performance poet.- Early life and education :Lesego Rampolokeng was born in 1965 in Orlando West, Soweto, Johannesburg. He studied law at the University of the North in South Africa. .- Works :Lesego Rampolokeng prominence happened in...
, Santu Mofokeng, Keorapetse Kgositsile
Keorapetse Kgositsile
Keorapetse William Kgositsile is a South African poet and political activist, and was an influential member of the African National Congress in the 1960s and 1970s. He lived in exile in the United States from 1962 until 1975, the peak of his literary career...
, Gael Reagon, Binyavanga Wainaina
Binyavanga Wainaina
Binyavanga Wainaina is a Kenyan author, journalist and winner of the Caine Prize.-Early life and education:Binyavanga Wainaina was born in Nakuru in Rift Valley province. He attended Moi Primary School in Nakuru, Mangu High School in Thika, and Lenana School in Nairobi...
, Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor is a Kenyan writer who was educated at Jomo Kenyatta University and the University of Reading. She won the Caine Prize for the story Weight of Whispers, which considers an aristocratic Rwandan refugee in Kenya.-References:...
, Boubacar Boris Diop
Boubacar Boris Diop
Boubacar Boris Diop is a Senegalese novelist, journalist and screenwriter. His best known work, Murambi, le livre des ossements , is the fictional account of a notorious massacre during the Rwandan genocide of 1994...
, Tanure Ojaide
Tanure Ojaide
Tanure Ojaide is a prolific Nigerian poet and writer. He is noted for his unique stylistic vision and for his intense criticism of imperialism, religion, and other issues....
, Dominique Malaquais, Stacy Hardy
Stacy Hardy
Stacy M. Hardy is a writer, journalist, multimedia artist and theatre practitioner.She is a founding member of the Venus Fly Trapeze Theatre Company, which has produced 8 original productions since 1995...
, Goddy Leye
Goddy Leye
Goddy Leye was a Cameroonian artist and intellectual.His work is focused on videos, installations, conceptual art and theoretical contributions. He is the founder of the art centre ArtBakery in Bonendale and he is the curator and promoter of site-specific art and international projects...
, Zwelethu Mthethwa
Zwelethu Mthethwa
Zwelethu Mthethwa is a South African painter and photographer.Mthethwa, a native of Durban, received his diplomas at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town. He received a Fulbright Scholarship that allowed him to study at the Rochester Institute of Technology, where he received...
, Mahmood Mamdani
Mahmood Mamdani
Mahmood Mamdani is an academic, author and political commentator. He is a Professor and Director of the at Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, and the Herbert Lehman Professor of Government at Columbia University, New York. He grew up in Uganda and acquired his B.A from the University of...
, Jorge Matine, and Greg Tate
Greg Tate
Greg Tate is an American author, focusing on African-American cultural theory and writing. He was acknowledged by The Source magazine as one of the 'Godfathers of Hip-hop Journalism'....
, among others.
- Chimurenga Vol. 1, Music Is The Weapon, April 2002
- Chimurenga Vol. 2, Dis-Covering Home, July 2002
- Chimurenga Vol. 3, Biko in Parliament, November 2002
- Chimurenga Vol. 4, Black Gays & Mugabes, May 2003
- Chimurenga Vol. 5, Head/Body(&Tools)/Corpses, April 2004
- Chimurenga Vol. 6, The Orphans Of Fanon, October 2004
- Chimurenga Vol. 7, Kaapstad! (and Jozi, the night Moses died, July 2005
- Chimurenga Vol. 8, We're all Nigerian!, December 2005
- Chimurenga Vol. 9, Conversations in Luanda and Other Graphic Stories, June 2006
- Chimurenga Vol. 10, Futbol, Politricks & Ostentatious Cripples, December 2006
- Chimurenga Vol. 11, Conversations With Poets Who Refuse To Speak, July 2007. The magazine produces a presentation video of the issue. The issue is translated into Swedish and published by the magazine Glänta 2/2010.
- Chimurenga Vol. 12/13, Dr. Satan's Echo Chamber, Marzo 2008. La rivista ha prodotto un trailer di presentazione del numero.
- Chimurenga Vol. 12/13, Dr. Satan's Echo Chamber, March 2008. The magazine produces a presentation video of the issue.
- Chimurenga Vol. 14, Everyone Has Their Indian, April 2009. Dedicated to Third World projects and links, real and imaginary, between Africa and South Asia. The magazine produces two presentation videos of the issue.
- Chimurenga Vol. 15, The Curriculum is Everything, May 2010. The issue is conceived as a second chance to write history: a low tech time-machine which allows produce a back-issue of a newspaperNewspaperA newspaper is a scheduled publication containing news of current events, informative articles, diverse features and advertising. It usually is printed on relatively inexpensive, low-grade paper such as newsprint. By 2007, there were 6580 daily newspapers in the world selling 395 million copies a...
and to analyse xenophobicXenophobiaXenophobia is defined as "an unreasonable fear of foreigners or strangers or of that which is foreign or strange". It comes from the Greek words ξένος , meaning "stranger," "foreigner" and φόβος , meaning "fear."...
events which took place in South AfricaSouth AfricaThe Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
, NigeriaNigeriaNigeria , officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal constitutional republic comprising 36 states and its Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The country is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in...
and KenyaKenyaKenya , officially known as the Republic of Kenya, is a country in East Africa that lies on the equator, with the Indian Ocean to its south-east...
in the week 11–18 May 2008. The issue is produced by an online editorial board which involves writers, artists and journalists in collaboration with the magazines Chimurenga, Kwani?Kwani?Kwani? is a Kenyan literary journal. The magazine grew out of a series of conversations that took place among a group of Nairobi-based writers in the early 2000s. Its founding editor, Binyavanga Wainaina, spearheaded the project shortly after winning the 2002 Caine Prize for African Writing...
and Cassava Republic.
Chimurenga also has a monthly online edition which presents other short contributions not directly connected to the themes of the paper publication.
Chimurenganyana
Chimurenganyana is a series of low cost publications and a distribution system. A selection of articles from Chimurenga are printed on small sizes and are sold by street vendors who normally sell cigarette. Each edition is focused on a specific theme.- Julian Jonker,
Keziah Jones
Keziah Jones is a Nigerian singer-songwriter and guitarist. He describes his musical style as "Blufunk", which is a fusion between raw blues elements and hard, edgy funk rhythms...
,
Fela Kuti
Fela Anikulapo Kuti , or simply Fela , was a Nigerian multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, pioneer of Afrobeat music, human rights activist, and political maverick.-Biography:...
's Last Interview
Douala
Douala is the largest city in Cameroon and the capital of Cameroon's Littoral Province. Home to Cameroon's largest port and its major international airport, Douala International Airport, it is the commercial capital of the country...
Chronicle
Njabulo Ndebele
Professor Njabulo Simakahle Ndebele , an academic, a literary and a writer of fiction, is the former Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Cape Town.- Life and career :...
,
Brenda
Brenda is a feminine given name in the English language.-Etymology:The name is of uncertain origin. It may be derived from a Scandinavian language, rather than a Celtic language like the similarly-spelt masculine given name Brendan...
Achille Mbembe
Achille Mbembe is a philosopher and political scientist. He was born in Cameroon in 1957. He obtained his Ph.D. in History at the University of Sorbonne in Paris, France, in 1989. He subsequently obtained a D.E.A. in Political Science at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in the same city...
,
Chimurenga Library
The Chimurenga Library is a selection of magazines and publications which - according to Chimurenga - influenced and influence thinking and writing in Africa. The selection is presented on an online database under CC-BY-SA compatible with WikipediaWikipedia
Wikipedia is a free, web-based, collaborative, multilingual encyclopedia project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its 20 million articles have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world. Almost all of its articles can be edited by anyone with access to the site,...
; it presents general information on the magazines and a sort of genealogy
Genealogy
Genealogy is the study of families and the tracing of their lineages and history. Genealogists use oral traditions, historical records, genetic analysis, and other records to obtain information about a family and to demonstrate kinship and pedigrees of its members...
which links the publications to others.
The magazines and publications presented on the Chimurenga Library are African Film, Amkenah, Black Images, Chief Priest Say, Civil Lines
Civil Lines
Civil Lines is a term used for residential areas originally built by the British Raj for its senior officers. The Civil Lines, Delhi is a subdivision of North Delhi District in the National Capital Territory of Delhi, India and noted residential areas in Delhi. It is one of the 12 zones under the...
, Ecrans d'Afrique
Ecrans d'Afrique
Founded by African filmmakers in Burkina Faso in 1992, during a period of intense worldwide interest and commentary on African T.V. and film, the bilingual journal Ecrans d'Afrique: Revue Internationale de Cinema Television et Video explored all aspects of African film production...
, Frank Talk
Frank Talk
Frank Talk was a political journal founded in 1984 in South Africa, and arising out of the student-led anti-apartheid movement of the 1970s and 80s...
Glendora Review
Glendora Review
The Glendora Review is a magazine that was conceived in an atmosphere of intellectual crisis, following the brain drain from Nigeria, during the Sani Abacha regime...
, Hambone
Hambone (magazine)
-External links:* at the Chimurenga Library...
, Hei Voetsek!, Joe
Joe (magazine)
Joe was a popular magazine published in Kenya in the 1970s, at the height of what acclaimed publisher Henry Chakava described as the "fat years" of Kenyan publishing. Joe magazine was one in a number of popular publications aimed at the new urban middle and lower-middle classes...
, L'Autre Afrique, Lamalif
Lamalif
Published in Morocco in 1966, Lamalif took its title from two Arabic letters that form the word "la", meaning "no". This sly wordplay encapsulated the magazine's objective. Launched after the defeat of the Moroccan opposition by the monarchy, Lamalif was a form of challenge...
, Mfumu'eto, Molotov Cocktail
Molotov cocktail
The Molotov cocktail, also known as the petrol bomb, gasoline bomb, Molotov bomb, fire bottle, fire bomb, or simply Molotov, is a generic name used for a variety of improvised incendiary weapons...
, Moto
Moto
Moto or MOTO may refer to:* Moto , a restaurant in Chicago known for its "high-tech" food* Motorola, the American multinational, Fortune 100, telecommunications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois* Motorola MOTO, a mobile phone...
, Okyeame
Okyeame
This magazine was founded in 1961 by The Writers Workshop, with literary organ Okyeame as key in this development. Thought of after the post-independence era in Ghana, which saw the rapid rise of a new generation of thinkers, writers and poets...
, Revue Noire
Revue Noire
Revue Noire is a specialist publisher of books and web material relating to African contemporary art and culture, based in France. From 1991 to 2001, Editions Revue Noire published the printed quarterly magazine Revue Noire...
, Savacou
Savacou
Savacou Magazine was founded in 1970 by Edward Kamau Brathwaite, Andrew Salkey, and John La Rose. Savacou grew out of the Caribbean Artists Movement of the 1960's that was mostly concerned with Caribbean artistic production and with consolidating a broad artistic alliance between all 'Third World'...
, Souffles, Spear
Spear
A spear is a pole weapon consisting of a shaft, usually of wood, with a pointed head.The head may be simply the sharpened end of the shaft itself, as is the case with bamboo spears, or it may be made of a more durable material fastened to the shaft, such as flint, obsidian, iron, steel or...
, Staffrider
Staffrider
Staffrider was a South African literary magazine.Staffrider was first published in 1977, and took its name from slang for people hanging outside or on the roof of overcrowded, racially segregated trains....
, Straight No Chaser
Straight No Chaser (magazine)
Straight No Chaser was an influential British music magazine, based in London, which covered various forms of black music and electronic music....
, The Book of Tongues, The Cricket: Black Music in Evolution
The Cricket: Black Music in Evolution
The Cricket is a magazine created in 1968 by Amiri Baraka , Larry Neal, and A. B. Spellman.-References:* Gennari, John. Blowin' Hot and Cool: Jazz and Its Critics. University of Chicago Press, 2006. p. 287 - 290....
, The Liberator Magazine
The Liberator Magazine
The Liberator Magazine is a quarterly print publication started by Brian Kasoro, Gayle Smaller, Tazz Hunter, Kenya McKnight, Marcus Harcus and Mike Clark in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. The first issue was published July 21, 2002. Currently Brian Kasoro and Kamille Whittaker serve as co-editors,...
, The uncollected writings of Greg Tate, Third Text
Third Text
Third Text is a bimonthly academic journal on art in global context. After founder and editor Rasheed Araeen's earlier art magazine Black Phoenix, started in 1978, published only three issues, it was relaunched as a theoretical art journal in 1987...
, Tsotso, Two Tone, Unir Cinéma, Wietie
Wietie
Wietie first published in 1980 by Christopher van Wyk and Fhazel Johennesse, Wietie provided a literary platform for the prevailing philosophy of Black Consciousness...
, Y Magazine (first five issues).
Some artists, writers and intellectuals are invited to contribute to the presentations of the magazines with texts and videos. Have contributed to the Chimurenga Library Rustum Kozain
Rustum Kozain
Rustum Kozain is a South African poet and writer.He was born in Paarl. After he matriculated, he studied at the .From 1994 - 1995 he attended Bowling Green State University in Ohio on a Fullbright Scholarship....
, Vivek Narayanan, Patrice Nganang
Patrice Nganang
-External links:...
, Khulile Nxumalo, Sean O'Toole, Achal Prabhala
Achal Prabhala
Achal Prabhala is an Indian researcher, activist and writer based in Bangalore, Karnataka. He works on intellectual property rights in relation to medicine and knowledge. Prabhala is a member of the Advisory board of the Wikimedia Foundation.-Personal life:...
, Suren Pillay, Lesego Rampolokeng
Lesego Rampolokeng
Lesego Rampolokeng is a South African writer, playwright and performance poet.- Early life and education :Lesego Rampolokeng was born in 1965 in Orlando West, Soweto, Johannesburg. He studied law at the University of the North in South Africa. .- Works :Lesego Rampolokeng prominence happened in...
, Tracey Rose
Tracey Rose
Tracey Rose is a South African artist who lives and works in Johannesburg. Rose is best known for her performances, video installations, and photographs.- Biography :...
, Ivan Vladislavic
Ivan Vladislavic
Ivan Vladislaviċ is a South African short story writer and novelist of Croatian origin. He lives in Johannesburg where he also works as an editor. In the eighties he worked as a fiction and social studies editor at Ravan Press...
, Barbara Murray
Barbara Murray
Barbara Ann Murray is an English actress. She was married to the actor John Justin and had three daughters, but they divorced in 1964....
, Akin Adesokan, Nicole Turner, Tunde Giwa, Brian Chikwava
Brian Chikwava
Brian Chikwava is an African writer. His short story Seventh Street Alchemy was awarded the 2004 Caine Prize for African Writing and Chikwava became the first Zimbabwean to do so. He has been a Charles Pick fellow at the University of East Anglia, and lives in London...
, Judy Kibinge, Olu Oguibe
Olu Oguibe
Olu Oguibe is an artist and public intellectual. Professor of Art and African-American Studies and interim Director of the Institute for African American Studies at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, Oguibe is a senior fellow of the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at the New School, New...
, Sam Kahiga, Mike Abrahams, Sola Olorunyomi, Marie-Louise Bibish Mumbu, Nadi Edwards, Brent Hayes Edwards, Sharifa Rhodes Pitts, Jean-Pierre Bekolo
Jean-Pierre Bekolo
-Education:* Studied physics at University of Yaounde* Institut national de l'audiovisuel INA in France, under Christian Metz.-Awards and Features:* 1993 - British Film Institute award , for Quartier Mozart....
e Aryan Kaganof
Aryan Kaganof
Aryan Kaganof is a South African film maker, novelist, poet and fine artist. In 1999 he changed his name to Aryan Kaganof.-Filmography:...
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In 2009 Chimurenga Library is shown with the title Chimurenga Library: An introspective of Chimurenga at Cape Town Central Library with a series of multimedia itineraries (reading routs e sound posts) and live events (music, readings, meetings with authors, projections and wiki workshop during which students are involved in producing Wikipedia articles). The idea of the presentation is to rethink a library as a laboratory which can trigger curiosity, adventures, critical thinking, activism, entertainment and random reading. The show presents panafrican independent periodicals, and the exhibition Why Must A Black Writer Write About Sex, a selection of texts on sex from African literature
African literature
African literature refers to literature of and from Africa. As George Joseph notes on the first page of his chapter on African literature in Understanding Contemporary Africa, while the European perception of literature generally refers to written letters, the African concept includes oral...
which confront stereotypes on sexuality and literature genres.
PASS Pan African Space Station
The PASS Pan African Space Station is an annual 30 day day musical intervention, that takes place through a freeform radio station and in unexpected venues across greater Cape TownCape Town
Cape Town is the second-most populous city in South Africa, and the provincial capital and primate city of the Western Cape. As the seat of the National Parliament, it is also the legislative capital of the country. It forms part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality...
. The initiative is promoted by Ntone Edjabe and Neo Muyanga (The Heliocentrics) in collaboration with Africa Centre
Africa Centre
The Africa Centre is structured as a not-for-profit organisation whose purpose is to provide a platform for Pan-African arts and cultural practice to function as a catalyst for social change. All the projects it conducts, facilitates or supports have some social intention...
and it is organised in 2008, 2009 and 2010.
Pilgrimages
Pilgrimages is a project that sent 14 African writers to 13 African cities and one city of BrazilBrazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
for two weeks to explore the complexity of urban landscapes. Pilgrimages commissioned travel books which narrate the experiences and the first African World Cup
2010 FIFA World Cup
The 2010 FIFA World Cup was the 19th FIFA World Cup, the world championship for men's national association football teams. It took place in South Africa from 11 June to 11 July 2010...
. The writers selected and their cities are Akenji Ndumu in Abidjan
Abidjan
Abidjan is the economic and former official capital of Côte d'Ivoire, while the current capital is Yamoussoukro. it was the largest city in the nation and the third-largest French-speaking city in the world, after Paris, and Kinshasa but before Montreal...
, Kojo Laing in Cape Town
Cape Town
Cape Town is the second-most populous city in South Africa, and the provincial capital and primate city of the Western Cape. As the seat of the National Parliament, it is also the legislative capital of the country. It forms part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality...
, Funmi Iyanda
Funmi Iyanda
Olufunmilola Aduke Iyanda , better known as Funmi Iyanda is a multi award winning broadcaster, journalist, columnist and blogger. She produced and hosted Nigeria’s most popular and authoritative talk show New Dawn with Funmi, which aired on the national network for over eight years...
in Durban
Durban
Durban is the largest city in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal and the third largest city in South Africa. It forms part of the eThekwini metropolitan municipality. Durban is famous for being the busiest port in South Africa. It is also seen as one of the major centres of tourism...
, Doreen Baingana
Doreen Baingana
Doreen Baingana is a Ugandan short story writer. Her book, Tropical Fish won the 2006 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, best first book, Africa, and an AWP Short Fiction Award....
in Hargeisa
Hargeisa
Hargeisa is a city in the northwestern Woqooyi Galbeed region of Somalia. With a population of approximately 2 million residents, it is the second largest city in the country. Hargeisa is the capital of Somaliland, a self-declared republic that is internationally recognized as an autonomous region...
, Chris Abani
Chris Abani
Christopher Abani is a Nigerian author. Abani's first novel, Masters of the Board, was about a Neo-Nazi takeover of Nigeria...
in Johannesburg
Johannesburg
Johannesburg also known as Jozi, Jo'burg or Egoli, is the largest city in South Africa, by population. Johannesburg is the provincial capital of Gauteng, the wealthiest province in South Africa, having the largest economy of any metropolitan region in Sub-Saharan Africa...
, Victor LaValle in Kampala
Kampala
Kampala is the largest city and capital of Uganda. The city is divided into five boroughs that oversee local planning: Kampala Central Division, Kawempe Division, Makindye Division, Nakawa Division and Lubaga Division. The city is coterminous with Kampala District.-History: of Buganda, had chosen...
, Nimco Mahamud Hassan in Khartoum
Khartoum
Khartoum is the capital and largest city of Sudan and of Khartoum State. It is located at the confluence of the White Nile flowing north from Lake Victoria, and the Blue Nile flowing west from Ethiopia. The location where the two Niles meet is known as "al-Mogran"...
, Alain Mabanckou
Alain Mabanckou
Alain Mabanckou is an author and journalist who currently resides in the United States.-Life:Alain Mabanckou was born in Congo-Brazzaville in 1966. He spent his childhood in the coastal village of Pointe-Noire where he received his baccalaureate in Letters and Philosophy at the Lycée Karl Marx...
in Lagos
Lagos
Lagos is a port and the most populous conurbation in Nigeria. With a population of 7,937,932, it is currently the third most populous city in Africa after Cairo and Kinshasa, and currently estimated to be the second fastest growing city in Africa...
, Billy Kahora in Luanda
Luanda
Luanda, formerly named São Paulo da Assunção de Loanda, is the capital and largest city of Angola. Located on Angola's coast with the Atlantic Ocean, Luanda is both Angola's chief seaport and its administrative center. It has a population of at least 5 million...
, Nicole Turner in Nairobi
Nairobi
Nairobi is the capital and largest city of Kenya. The city and its surrounding area also forms the Nairobi County. The name "Nairobi" comes from the Maasai phrase Enkare Nyirobi, which translates to "the place of cool waters". However, it is popularly known as the "Green City in the Sun" and is...
, Abdourahman A. Waberi in Salvador
Salvador
Salvador is normally an indirect way of naming a Messiah. In Spanish, a nickname for Salvador is Chava...
, Uzodinma Iweala
Uzodinma Iweala
Dr. Uzodinma Iweala is an author and physician who hails from Washington, DC and Nigeria. His debut novel, Beasts of No Nation, is a formation of his thesis work at Harvard. It depicts a child soldier in an unnamed African country...
in Tombouctou
Tombouctou
Tombouctou may be:* Tombouctou Region in northern Mali* The French name for the city of Timbuktu, which gives its name to the region...
and Binyavanga Wainaina
Binyavanga Wainaina
Binyavanga Wainaina is a Kenyan author, journalist and winner of the Caine Prize.-Early life and education:Binyavanga Wainaina was born in Nakuru in Rift Valley province. He attended Moi Primary School in Nakuru, Mangu High School in Thika, and Lenana School in Nairobi...
in Touba
Touba
Touba may refer to:*Touba, Côte d'Ivoire*Touba, Boké -Guinea*Touba, Labé -Guinea*Touba, Mali*Touba, Senegal...
. Pilgrimages is promoted by the Chinua Achebe Center for African Writers and Artists of Bard College
Bard College
Bard College, founded in 1860 as "St. Stephen's College", is a small four-year liberal arts college located in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.-Location:...
in collaboration with Chimurenga, Kwani Trust and Kachifo Limited
Kachifo Limited
Kachifo Limited is an independent publishing house based in Lagos, Nigeria. It was founded in 2004 by Muhtar Bakare. Its imprints currently include Farafina Books, Farafina Educational, Prestige Books, and Farafina Magazine.-Farafina Books:...
and with the support among others of Open Society Foundation South Africa, Karibu Foundation, Doen Foundation, Heinrich Böll Foundation
Heinrich Böll Foundation
The Heinrich Böll Foundation is a German, legally independent political foundation. Affiliated with the German Green Party, it was originally founded in 1987 and rebuilt in 1997...
and Hivos
Hivos
Hivos is a Dutch organization for development co-inspired by humanist values. Hivos provides financial and political support to over 800 partner organizations in over 30 countries in Africa, Latin America, Asia and Southeastern Europe...
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African Cities Reader
The African Cities Reader is a publication dedicated to African urban transformations and produced in collaboration with the African Centre for Cities of the Cape Town University and with the support of Rockefeller FoundationRockefeller Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation is a prominent philanthropic organization and private foundation based at 420 Fifth Avenue, New York City. The preeminent institution established by the six-generation Rockefeller family, it was founded by John D. Rockefeller , along with his son John D. Rockefeller, Jr...
. Each issue is focussed on a specific theme and it is edited by Ntone Edjabe and Edgar Pieterse.
- African Cities Reader I: Pan-African Practices. Contribute to the publication Chris AbaniChris AbaniChristopher Abani is a Nigerian author. Abani's first novel, Masters of the Board, was about a Neo-Nazi takeover of Nigeria...
, Nuruddin FarahNuruddin FarahNuruddin Farah is a prominent Somali novelist.-Early years:Born in Baidoa, Somalia, Farah is the son of a merchant father and a poet mother. As a child, he attended school at Kallafo in the Ogaden, and studied English, Arabic, and Amharic. In 1963, three years after Somalia's independence, Farah...
, Akin Adesokan, Gabeba BaderoonGabeba BaderoonGabeba Baderoon is the 2005 recipient of the DaimlerChrysler Award for South African Poetry.She was born in Port Elizabeth, South Africa on February 21, 1969. She currently lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa and Pennsylvania, USA....
, Karen PressKaren PressKaren Press is a South African poet.She was born in Cape Town, and currently lives in Sea Point. She is a full-time writer and editor, having published eight collections of poetry, a film script, short stories, as well as educational material and textbooks in the fields of science, mathematics,...
, José Eduardo AgualusaJosé Eduardo AgualusaJosé Eduardo Agualusa is an Angolan journalist and writer. He studied agronomy and silviculture in Lisbon, Portugal. He currently spends most of his time in Portugal, Angola and Brazil, working as a writer and journalist. His books have been translated into twenty languages...
, Ashraf Jamal, Dominique Malaquais, Annie Paul, Teju Cole e Achal PrabhalaAchal PrabhalaAchal Prabhala is an Indian researcher, activist and writer based in Bangalore, Karnataka. He works on intellectual property rights in relation to medicine and knowledge. Prabhala is a member of the Advisory board of the Wikimedia Foundation.-Personal life:...
. - African Cities Reader II: Mobilities & Fixtures.