Chimurenga is on display are part of Independent Publishing Project (facilitated by Jonah Sack and Francis Burger) currently on at the Goethe-Institut library on Jan Smuts avenue til the 26th of April.

Begun in 2011, the IPP is a research initiative aimed at gathering people and objects around the idea of self or small-scale publishing in a South African context.

Combining contemporary and historical examples, the books, booklets, zines, take-aways and leaflets generated, gathered and traded through the project advocate independent publishing as a first rather than a last resort. Looking at independent or small-scale publishing as both a medium and a strategy, the project’s interest in these items is part sentimental, part tactile and part political. Consumable but not commodified, these works traverse closely-knit networks as if by word of mouth, existing as intimate instruments of personal agency and freedom of thought. They create a space.