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Reproducing Festac ’77: A secret among a family of millions

Friday Kwanele Sosibo - 27 May 2020

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Bridging the black Atlantic in jazz

Article Percy Zvomuya - 30 Apr 2020

The collaboration between Thomas Mapfumo and Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith, broke new ground and should have grown cult status

Seeking the real Chimurenga

Article Farai Mudzingwa - 17 Aug 2018

The author unravels a history of Zimbabwe that’s been twisted for centuries and continues today

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Article Arts Desk - 29 Jun 2018

In between working on Friday copy, this is what the team reads, listens to and watches

Lion Songs: Thomas Mapfumo’s insightful new biography

Article Kwanele Sosibo - 14 Jan 2016

A new book probes the life and times of Thomas Mapfumo, Zimbabwe’s hailed chimurenga music pioneer.

Chimurenga finds its true south

Article Percy Zvomuya - 28 Jun 2013

The magazine and its news offshoot were nurtured in a climate of alienation in Cape Town.

Chronic: A late-colonial enkwayary

Article Shaun De Waal - 24 May 2013

Chronic ranges across the post-colonial world, exposing multiple contradictions and a bewildering range of trajectories across this landscape.

Out of the blues

Article Gwen Ansell - 21 Oct 2011

A concert on Friday evening pays tribute to one of South Africa's most innovative jazz groups ever.

Street focus becomes Chronic

Article Niren Tolsi - 14 Oct 2011

Literary magazine Chimurenga's first newspaper will retell the xenophobia story from the inside.

From Chimurenga to Chronic

Article Staff Reporter - 13 Oct 2011

Chimurenga's new project is an intervention into the newspaper as a vehicle of knowledge production and dissemination.

To the streets and beyond

Article Staff Reporter - 13 Oct 2011

The Chimurenga Chronic street poster campaign is a public art intervention taking place on the African continent and beyond.

Hauntingly, quintessentially chimurenga

Article Percy Zvomuya - 30 Sep 2011

For four decades Thomas Mapfumo has been at the heart of the evolution of a music style that put Zimbabwean sounds on the map.

Brief union sealed by fate

Article Percy Zvomuya - 10 Jun 2011

Chance brings two of Zimbabwe's leading musicians, Oliver Mtukudzi and Thomas Mapfumo, together to share their thoughts and feelings

Storming the enclave

Article Staff Reporter - 3 Oct 2009

Chimurenga is bringing musos from all over Africa to Cape Town for a month-long series of activities with music at its centre.

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