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LISTEN: SONGS FOR WINNIE BY A SEMBLANCE
CHIMURENGA LIBRARY Banished to Brandfort in 1977, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela noted that this act, carried out by the apartheid authorities, was intended “to bury me forever.” However, it was her...
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Pulp!
CHIMURENGA LIBRARY – POWERMONEYSEX READER In the Indian hinterland, crimes of passion happen every single day, and perhaps nowhere are they so lovingly archived in all their recreated technical glory...
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LISTEN: THE IDEA OF A BORDERLESS WORLD BY ACHILLE MBEMBE
CHIMURENGA LIBRARY The capacity to decide who can move, who can settle, where and under what conditions is increasingly becoming the core of political struggles over sovereignty, nationalism,...
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POETS WITH GUNS: A CONVERSATION WITH CHIRIKURE CHIRIKURE
Chirikure Chirikure means “that which is far is very far.” He is a well-known poet, writer, and songwriter who has collaborated with Chiwoniso Maraire and Oliver Mtukudzi among others, and toured the...
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THE CARETAKER
We are proud to present, in collaboration with Wolff Architects, the debut screening of The Caretaker. Situating us in a time between time, the film follows the memory of the man who tirelessly cared...
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LISTEN: THE BIRTH OF BLACK CINEMA BY TONI CADE BAMBARA
CHIMURENGA LIBRARY In her preface of “Deep Sightings & Rescue Missions” Toni Morrison described the author, the other Toni, Cade Bambara, as outrageously brilliant. “There was no division in her...
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LISTEN: THE CHRONIC – DIPALO BY NEO MUYANGA
CHIMURENGA LIBRARY In 2011 we invited the composer, sound artist and librettist Neo Muyanga to compose a mixtape to accompany the first edition of the Chimurenga Chronic – the publication was imagined...
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Chimurenganyana: La Discotheque De Sarah Maldoror (March 2023)
This entry in our Chimurenganyana series takes the form of a mixtape on the soundworld of the acclaimed Guadeloupean filmmaker Sarah Maldoror (1929-2020), decomposed, an-arranged and reproduced by...
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L’ALMAMY SAMORI TOURE, AN UNMADE FILM BY OUSMANE SEMBENE
CHIMURENGA LIBRARY Samori is a long-term inquiry into the political, artistic and epistemological implications of Ousmane Sembène’s unrealised film on Samori Touré, a major historical figure of...
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Achebe The Native Intellectual
There Was A Country, Chinua Achebe’s autobiographical account of the Nigerian Civil War, raised a dust storm of reaction in Nigeria. Jeremy Weate suggests the books controversy and power lies outside...
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LISTEN: “MORE MORE MORE… FUTURE” BY FAUSTIN LINYEKULA AND STUDIO KABAKO
CHIMURENGA LIBRARY – WHO KILLED KABILA Every Wednesday evening we broadcast a piece from our sound library that relates to ongoing or previous research. This week we re-play a performance of Faustin...
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The Power of Wikipedia: Legitimacy and Control
CHIMURENGA LIBRARY – POWERMONEYSEX READER The most astonishing global source of knowledge has the power to act like a brand new nation. Then why does it behave like an old one? In this hard-hitting...
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Chimurenganyana: The Fear and Loathing Out of Harare by Dambuzo Marechera...
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LISTEN: THE HISTORY OF JAZZ, A RADIO PROGRAMME BY ABDULLAH IBRAHIM
Every Wednesday evening we broadcast a piece from our sound library that relates to ongoing or previous research. This week we listen to a 1965 radio programme on “the history of jazz” produced and...
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Chimurenganyana: You Look Illegal by Paula Ihozo Akugizibwe (Feb 2022)
“I know that even if angry hordes decided to descend on these neighbourhoods dominated by settlers with generational wealth—to tell them that they, too, should go back to where they came from—they...
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CAPE TOWN PRINT FAIR 27-29 MARCH 2026
Join us this weekend at the inaugural Cape Town Print Fair at 81 St Georges Mall on the corner of Shortmarket Street in Cape Town CBD. The three days will be filled with a wide range of activities...
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THE GARDEN LETTERS OF YVONNE VERA – Tadiwa Madenga
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LISTEN: L’ALMAMY SAMORI TOURE, AN UNMADE FILM BY OUSMANE SEMBENE
Every Wednesday evening we broadcast a piece from our sound library that relates to ongoing or previous research. This week we’re proud to present a rare cassette recording of a waxtaan (community...
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SURPLUS VALUES
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CHIMURENGANYANA – THE GARDEN LETTERS OF YVONNE VERA by Tadiwa Madenga
In the 1990s, Yvonne Vera wrote garden letters to friends, lovers, and readers of Bulawayo’s Chronicle newspaper. They were literary meditations, writings that questioned if the myth of the garden...
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