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Chimurenganyana: THE GARDEN LETTERS OF YVONNE VERA - Tadiwa Madenga

It’s only a matter of acceleration now

Join Binyavanga Wainaina as he contemplates swimming, cosmology ...and interviews

WRITING AS AN ACT OF GENEROSITY

Mamadou Diallo reviews the state of language in Africa through

BLACK STUDY – a conversation and performance by Dead Symbols, A Semblance and Operation Khataza

Saturday, 14 March 2026 from 4pm
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LISTEN: L’ALMAMY SAMORI TOURE, AN UNMADE FILM BY OUSMANE SEMBENE

LIVE ON PASS Wednesday, 25 March 2026 from 7pm

It’s only a matter of acceleration now

Join Binyavanga Wainaina as he contemplates swimming, cosmology ...and interviews

WRITING AS AN ACT OF GENEROSITY

Mamadou Diallo reviews the state of language in Africa through

BLACK STUDY – a conversation and performance by Dead Symbols, A Semblance and Operation Khataza

Saturday, 14 March 2026 from 4pm

WHAT AFRICAN WRITERS CAN LEARN FROM CHEIKH ANTA DIOP

In a testament to Cheikh Anta Diop, Boubacar Boris Diop

The Pharaoh’s New Clothes

Its location, vocation, and publication intended to speak to a

Al Fatah

Al Fatah at Algiers, 1969

How Could You Believe A Story Like That?

Stacy Hardy reviews Roberto Bolaño's 'Nazi Literature in the Americas'

WHY MUST A CHINESE WRITER WRITE ABOUT SEX

Robert Berold reviews Zhu Wen's 'I Love Dollars and Other

ANNUAL CHIMURENGA PARTY with DJ Bubbles – ALL NIGHT!

Join us for the Annual Chimurenga 'Ghetto Gala', with music

A TALE OF TWO COMPARTMENTS

A telling of orifice interventions by Jonathan Berger

Childhood Snapshots

by Bill Kouélany

Situation is Critical

Jeremy Weate moves from text to context in search of

IT BEGINS WITH A BLESSING AND ENDS WITH A CURSE: BRIT PROG JAZZ ROCK 1968-1978

Live on PASS, Friday 6 February 2026, from 7pm

Living Dangerously in Petroluanda

António Tomás picks through the post-independence architectural ruins of Angola’s

An Introduction to Arithmetic Sorcery

Cyclonopedia, a "theoretical-fiction novel" by Reza Negarestani reviewed by Neo

Diary Of A Bad Year

President Mbeki’s Letters to the Nation by Imraan Coovadia

MASCON – A Massive Concentration of Black Experiential Energy

A gathering with the Otolith Group - in film, music

THE GARDEN LETTERS OF YVONNE VERA – Tadiwa Madenga

Chimurenganyana: THE GARDEN LETTERS OF YVONNE VERA - Tadiwa Madenga

Chants, Dreams and Other Grammars of Love: a gedenkschrift for Harry Garuba (Kraft Books Limited, 2022)

Chants, Dreams and Other Grammars of Love: a gedenkschrift for

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