Chimurenganyana
Chimurenganyana, a pavement literature project consisting of low cost serialized monographs culled from the print journal, is now available.
* Find it at Clarke’s Bookstore (Cape Town Central (web, email), The Book Lounge, Roeland St. Cape Town, (+27 (0) 21 462 2425, email), Blank Books – Albert Road, Woodstock, Cape Town, Pro qm – Berlin, Germany (website), AfricanLookbook.com, Ike’s Books And Collectables, Morningside, Durban (email), and anywhere where the keleketla!library team is present or buy copies direct from our online shop.
Series 2
Series 2 of this 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:
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The Forest and the Zoo by Aryan Kaganof Johnny Dyani offers method to the Skanga (black music family) in this extended conversation with Aryan Kaganof. Photographs by George Hallett. |
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Rumblin’ By Dominique Malaquais A text and image reflection on the “Rumble in the Jungle”, the Muhammad Ali / George Foreman boxing match held in Kinshasa in 1974. |
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52 Niggers by Stacy Hardy A word-sound investigation of unjustly neglected African-American composer Julius Eastman‘s caged negratas.Photographs by Chris Rusiniak and Donald Burkhardt. |
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The Making of Mannenberg by John Edwin Mason On a winter’s day in 1974, a group of musicians led by Abdullah Ibrahim entered a recording studio in the heart of Cape Town, and emerged, hours later, having changed South African music, forever… John Edwin Mason pens notes on the making of the icon and the anthem. |
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In Search of Yambo Ouloguem by Christopher Wise Yambo Ouologuem, the Malian author of Le devoir de violence and other literary works, has been shrouded in mystery since he disappeared from the West, effectively turning his back on literature… Christopher Wise goes in search. |
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Dr Satan’s Echo Chamber by Louis Chude-Sokei Reggae, technology and the diaspora… Louis Chude-Sokei documents the (un)making of Dr. Satan’s Echo Chamber. |
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The Night Moses Died by Nicole Turner “Sleeking through the night city towards Hillbrow, it was Thapelo who asked where we were going and why….” Photographs by Pete Williams, Peter McKenzie |
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Series 1
Series 1 of this pocket literature features interviews and words on music, culture, being and art:
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In Defence of the Films We’ve Made by Odia Ofeimun |
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When You Kill Us, We Rule! - Fela Anikulapo Kuti’s Last Interview By Keziah Jones |
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Blood Money: A Douala Chronicle by Dominique Malaquais |
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Thinking of Brenda by Njabulo Ndebele |
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Variations on the Beautiful in the Congolese World of Sounds by Achille Mbembe |
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In Defence of the Films We’ve Made by Odia Ofeimun |
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