Announcements

The Chronic – now a quarterly. First print issue out now-now…

The Chronic online: Moses Taiwa Molelekwa would have been 40 this Wednesday, 17 April. We revisit ‘the Night that Moses Died’ and pay tribute through a suite of poems, songs and words. Also an Archive of Afrosonics in three parts, the anti-art of Kongofuturism, lessons in music crit by Kodwo Eshun and some healing from Doctor Tabane.

Live on PASS radio this week: Swartznelfjord, Boeta G, Bra Tony Cedras from New York & some surprises

Join us in New York for a Chimurenga Session, Saturday, March 16, 2013 at 3pm, New Museum Theater, Bowery Street, New York. New York–based Chimurenga contributors Vivek Narayanan, Sean Jacobs and Harmony Holiday will be joining the discussion and presenting work. Details here.

The Pan African Space Station presents Thath’i Cover Okestra – a collaborative re-exploration of kwaito arranged, directed and conducted by Bokani Dyer. More here

IN MEMORIAM: Liepollo Jocelyn Rantekoa: Please join us in remembering a dear friend and colleague and in celebrating her life onWed, 3rd October 2012 at 6.30pm, at Chimurenga, 3rd floor Pan African Market, 76 Long Street, Cape Town. More information here.

The Pan African Space Station presents Netsayi & Black Pressure with Siya Makuzeni, Friday, October 5, 2012 at 8pm, Slave Church, 40 Long Street, Cape Town, Entry R50 presold, R80 at the door. More here.

New on PMS: Fumi May on why anyone would care to be fair down there;  Annie Paul on Jamaican masculinity; Dinah Rajak on corporate social responsibility; Binyavanga Wainaina‘s true history of young Idi; Ebony Patterson‘s victorian macho dancehall men; Ryan Lobo‘s adult stories for kids; Kodwo Eshun‘s music crit;  Oliver Husain‘s meta-textual cross-cultural hybrid love story.  And much more.

The Forest and the Zoo lives on

Portal 9, a new Arabic-English journal of stories and critical writing about the city, seeks proposals for its spring 2013 issue, “The Square.” Info here.

Kwani have a new literary prize, The Kwani? Manuscript Project. To support writers through the process of developing and submitting manuscripts, they’ve have commissioned a series of articles by today’s leading writers. Aminatta Forna explores where the ideas for novels come from, Leila Aboulela offers ten pieces of advice for the writing life and Helon Habila goes on a journey into form and space.

ACR III: Land, Property & Value – call for submissions. One month to go.

Now out! Chimurenganyana Series 2 -  pocket literature features factions, essays, scores, interviews, liner notes, musical analyses, travel writing, personal impressions, political and social commentary, as well as innovative artwork that illuminates the subversive beauty, electrifying creativity and marvellous diversity of some of music’s most provocative innovators

New essay by Ngugi wa Thiong’o – his first on Asians in Kenya. Part of the Global South Dialogue Series co-curated by Chimurenga Mag (South Africa), Frontline (India) and Cornell University in the US of A. Also check out Ngugi’s new book: Globalectics: Theory and the Politics of Knowing.

“Who knew?… Chimurenga changes your view of Africa, and of journalism.” Simon Kuper on the Chimurenga Chronic in “How to change your view of Africa“, The Financial Times.

Chimurenga has been awarded the Prince Claus Fund’s Principal Award. Each year the Fund honours eleven cultural pioneers, whose work is located on the frontline of free cultural expression. More here.