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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]