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Archive | 2012
African Cities Reader III: Call for Submissions
NewsLand, Property & Value [A creation of the African Centre for Cities & Chimurenga] Call for Submissions 2012 April 2012 (more…)
Chimurenga at the Independent Publishing Project in Joburg
NewsChimurenga 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 […]
Chimurenga at MOMA
NewsChimurenga is featured in Millenium Magazine, a survey of experimental art and design magazines published since 2000, opening at the Museum of Modern Art in New York on February 20. The collection of over a hundred publications explores the various ways in which contemporary artists and designers utilize the magazine format as an experimental space […]
Chimurenga presents a screening of Man On Ground
NewsJoin us for a screening of Akin Omotoso‘s film, Man on Ground, followed by a conversation between Omotoso and Aryan Kaganof. Friday 24 February, 19h00 till 22h00 at the Gugu s’Thebe Arts and Culture Centre, cnr Washington and Church Street, Langa. Free Entry (more…)
Chimurenga at In Print in Cairo
NewsChimurenga is on view as part of ‘In Print,’ a project that looks at alternative approaches to the printed page at the The Townhouse Gallery in Cairo. For the project three Cairo-based, conceptually diverse DIY initiatives (Zine El-Arab, TokTok, and Cairobserver) have set up temporary printing bureaus in Townhouse’s First Floor Gallery. Over the next […]
It Begins with a Place
ArticlesSharifa Rhodes-Pitts’ first book, Harlem Is Nowhere fuses seemingly disparate elements of history, philosophy, journalism and prose in an attempt to untangle the myth and meaning of Harlem’s legacy. Formally, she never tires of digression, evoking voices from Harlem’s past and present to convey a reality that is multidimensional and complex in its simultaneity, as […]
Simon Kuper on the Chimurenga Chronic in the FT
News“Who knew?… Chimurenga changes your view of Africa, and of journalism.” Simon Kuper on the Chimurenga Chronic in “How to change your view of Africa“, The Financial Times.
Chimurenga awarded Prince Claus Fund’s Principal Award
NewsChimurenga has been awarded the Prince Claus Fund’s Principal Award. Each year the Fund honours eleven cultural pioneers, whose work is located on the frontline of free cultural expression. More here.