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In a testament to Cheikh Anta Diop, Boubacar Boris Diop raises radical views on creative writing, a challenge to what he laments as our literary Sahara

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Chimurenganyana: THE GARDEN LETTERS OF YVONNE VERA - Tadiwa Madenga

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'

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The Pharaoh’s New Clothes

Its location, vocation, and publication intended to speak to a politicised Third World imaginary.

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

Opportunities!

CHIMU TAPESTRIES – A NINEVITES COLLAB

A limited-edition series of handwoven wool tapestries designed by Chimurenga,

LISTEN: ZAMROCK EXPRESS

A four-part documentary series on the liberatory sound of Zambia

Traditional Intellectuals

Izithunywa Zohlanga use indigenous repertoire and idioms to produce music

Chimurenganyana: La Discotheque De Sarah Maldoror (March 2023)

Chimurenganyana: La Discotheque De Sarah Maldoror