We woke on Tuesday 25 September, 2012 to the crushing news of the passing of our beautiful sister, friend and longtime colleague Liepollo. (more…)
Archive | 2012
The Forest and the Zoo lives on
NewsIn 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. (more…)
Call for Propsals from Portal 9, a new Arabic-English journal
NewsCall for Proposals Portal 9, a new Arabic-English journal of stories and critical writing about the city, seeks proposals for its spring 2013 issue, “The Square.” Deadline: September 1, 2012 portal9journal.org (more…)
Conflict and Form: Giving Shape to Your Writing
ArticlesKwani Trust have commissioned a series of articles by today’s leading African writers on writing craft and practice as a way to support writers through the process of developing and submitting manuscripts for the Kwani? Manuscript Project, Kwani Trust’s new literary prize for African writing. Including contributions from Aminatta Forna, Leila Aboulela, Ellen Banda-Aaku and Helon […]
Ten Pieces of Advice for the Writing Life
ArticlesBy Leila Aboulela Polish your intention. Why are you writing? What do you really want to achieve? I once picked up a book of poems by Les Murray and the dedication said, “To the Glory of God”. Other writers feel that they are bearing witness or that they are born story-tellers or that they are […]
The Spark of Life: Where Novels Come From
ArticlesKwani Trust have commissioned a series of articles by today’s leading African writers on writing craft and practice as a way to support writers through the process of developing and submitting manuscripts for the Kwani? Manuscript Project, Kwani Trust’s new literary prize for African writing. Including contributions from Aminatta Forna, Leila Aboulela, Ellen Banda-Aaku and Helon […]
The Kwani? Manuscript Project
NewsFor at least 60 years the African novel has deconstructed, and even transversed, ideas and imaginaries of self, culture, society and nation across the continent. A self-reflexive continuum, shifting chameleon-like; a receptacle of letters, morphing through the cry of the griot, everyman’s diatribe, madman’s claim of truth or the politician’s manic address. An oracle. (more…)
Power Money Sex (PMS) Reader
NewsChimrenga’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 […]
Asia in My Life
ArticlesBy Ngugi wa Thiong’o The links between Asia and Africa and South America have always been present but in our times they have been made invisible by the fact that Europe is still the central mediator of Afro-Asian-Latino discourse. We live under what Satya Mohanty in his interview in Frontline (April 2012), aptly calls the […]
Call for submissions to Chimurenga Mag’s Power-Money-Sex (PMS) Reader
NewsThe 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 […]