The new issue of Chimurenga’s pan African quarterly, the Chronic writes Zimbabwe beyond white fears and the Africa-South conundrum. Titled “The Invention of Zimbabwe”, it features tough new work by Kudzanai Chiurai on the cover. In its pages, Bernard Matambo returns to the moment of Mugabe’s deposition to grasp the intrigues of factional politics within […]

“Sound is defined by vibrations that travel through the air or another medium and can be heard when they reach the ear. Yet there is more to it when one imagines the hearing process as an involuntary command placed upon the body to be processed instantly. This realization can lead us to use sound as […]

On Friday 19, from 6pm we gather in the Chimurenga/PASS radio studio on Long Street to give thanks to Keorapetse William Kgositsile (19 September 1938 – 3 January 2018). The session is hosted by Uhuru Phalafala and Bongani Kona and features contributions by Harry Garuba, Karen Press, Julie Nxadi, Nadia Davids and Sandile Dikeni. We […]

The Chimurenga Library is a research platform that seeks to re-imagine the library as a laboratory for extended curiosity, new adventures, critical thinking, daydreaming, socio-political involvement, partying and random perusal. Curated by Chimurenga, it offers an opportunity to investigate the library and the archive as conceptual and physical spaces in which memories are preserved and […]

From 9 – 12 November, the Pan African Space Station (PASS) will land in The National Gallery of Zimbabwe (NGZ) in the centre of Harare – broadcasting LIVE from 15:00 – 21:00 (CAT) daily. Join us at NGZ or via our live stream. In collaboration with visual artist Kudzanai Chiurai, who will launch his first ever solo […]

From 4 October – 26 November 2017, the Pan African Space Station (PASS) will land at Museo Tamayo, Mexico City. For 8 weeks, the PASS studio will function as “ecole du soir” (evening school) – a meeting place, a classroom, and laboratory where different worlds will converge. The radio programming explores the ancient supercontinent of Gondwana, […]

This week in the Chronic Online: The End of Elections? Paula Akugizibwe reads Seeing by Portuguese author Jose Saramago to find out what happens to a democratic system when no one turns up to vote. From albocracy (Government by “white” men or Europeans) through plousiocracy (The privileged rule of the wealthy) and  schismarch (one who […]

12th, 2017 marks the anniversary of the murder of Bantu Stephen Biko in police detention. We remember… but, as Gail Smith reminds us in Death by Memory, memory is sometimes murder… Read takes sand listen to mixes on Biko and black consciousness, black collectivity and beership in The Chronic Online. Its 15 years since Chimurenga […]

From 6-10 September, coinciding with the Open Book Fest that will run over the same period, Chimurenga will host a series of interviews and conversations with a selection of authors and guests of the festival LIVE on the Pan African Space Station. Tune in to listen via www.panafricanspacestation.org.za Programme: Chibundu Onuzo with Luso Mnthali : […]