A master of a sparse, propulsive style, Robbie Shakespeare’s bass spoke volumes
A master of feel, Robbie Shakespeare’s
bass spoke through the silence
Popping up everywhere that radical pan-African content is on offer, the Black Ark comes equipped with a library of material, ranging from books to vinyls and posters
‘Amandla’s’ status as a cultural rallying point during apartheid is captured in this Sounds review, republished in Chimurenga’s book ‘Festac 77’
An interview with Chimurenga founder Ntone Edjabe about his latest project
The collaboration between Thomas Mapfumo and Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith, broke new ground and should have grown cult status
The author unravels a history of Zimbabwe that’s been twisted for centuries and continues today
In between working on Friday copy, this is what the team reads, listens to and watches
A new book probes the life and times of Thomas Mapfumo, Zimbabwe’s hailed chimurenga music pioneer.
The magazine and its news offshoot were nurtured in a climate of alienation in Cape Town.
Chronic ranges across the post-colonial world, exposing multiple contradictions and a bewildering range of trajectories across this landscape.
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/ 21 October 2011
A concert on Friday evening pays tribute to one
of South Africa’s most innovative jazz groups ever.
Literary magazine <i>Chimurenga</i>’s first newspaper will retell the xenophobia story from the inside.
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/ 13 October 2011
<i>Chimurenga</i>’s new project is an intervention into the newspaper as a vehicle of knowledge production and dissemination.
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/ 13 October 2011
The <i>Chimurenga Chronic</i> street poster campaign is a public art intervention taking place on the African continent and beyond.
For four decades Thomas Mapfumo has been
at the heart of the evolution of a music style
that put Zimbabwean sounds on the map.
Chance brings two of Zimbabwe’s leading musicians, Oliver Mtukudzi and Thomas Mapfumo, together to share their thoughts and feelings
<i>Chimurenga</i> is bringing musos from all over Africa to Cape Town for a month-long series of activities with music at its centre.
The founders of Chimurenga have recategorised Cape Town Central Library, writes Matthew Krouse.
Gwen Ansell reviews The Palgrave History of Science Fiction by Adam Roberts andChimurenga 12 &13: Dr Satan’s Echo Chamber.