A 48-page newspaper and 40-page stand-alone books review magazine featuring writing, art and photography inflected by the workings of innovation, creativity and resistance.

Jean-Pierre Bekolo, Binyanvanga Wainaina, Dominique Malaquais, Mahmood Mamdani, Andile Mngxitama, Gwen Ansell, Patrice Nganang, Achal Prabhala, Rustum Kostain, Karen Press, Niq Mhlongo, Paula Akugizibwe, Tolu Ogunlesi, Sean Jacobs, Harmony Holiday, Howard French, Billy Kahora are a few of its many contributors from around the world.

Stories range from investigations into the business of moving corpses to the rhetoric of land theft and loss; from latent tensions between Africa’s most powerful nations to the soft power of the biggest satellite television provider; and from the unspoken history of Rushdie’s “word crimes” to the unwritten history of PAGAD. It also investigates crime writing in Nigeria, Kenya and India, takes score of the media’s muted response to the ‘artistry’ of the World’s No1 Test batsman, rocks to the new sound of Zambia’s Copper Belt and tells the story on one man’s mission to take down colonialisms monumental history.

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We woke on Tuesday 25 September, 2012 to the crushing news of the passing of our beautiful sister, friend and longtime colleague Liepollo.

In October last year we launched the Chimurenga Chronic, a speculative newspaper set in May 2008, with The Forest and the Zoo – a Blue Notes tribute concert at the Drill Hall in Joburg.

Chimrenga’s new Power Money Sex (PMS) Reader is an online journal, blog and research space that embodies and reflects the interwoven relationship between power, money and sex, and its impact on the complex every day.

Featuring multimedia and text works by contributors from across the pan African world, The PMS Reader highlights the currents and transactions between the physical and the metaphysical, the lustful and the learned, the sensual and confessional and all matters philosophical, sociological and political.

The PMS Reader is a two-pronged multimedia online project – an online research space and a journal. As a research space, the Reader encourages vibrant discourse on, engagement in and reflection of the interwoven relationship between power, money and sex and its impact on the every day. The Reader, a research platform and aggregator of ideas, sources and discussion, taps into the extraordinary potential of online media to share information. The Reader also brings together contributors from across Africa and the world to refigure the relationship between power, money and sex and how the links inform the language used to imagine, negotiate and experience the multiplex of space, place as well as the self.

Land, Property & Value

[A creation of the African Centre for Cities & Chimurenga]

Call for Submissions 2012
April 2012

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.