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Chimurenga 12/13 – Dr Satan’s Echo Chamber (Double-Issue March 2008)
A double-take on sci-fi and speculative writing from the African world, collectively titled “Dr. Satan’s Echo Chamber” after a dub mix by King Tubby.
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In his first novel, and in conversation with Binyavanga Wainaina, Kojo Laing talks to a future Ghana by exposing its present, full of the jargons and certainties of one dimensional nation building.
Dakar
“Angazi, but I’m sure” is a common South African phrase. In English it means: “I don’t know, but I am sure”. It is a deliberately self-contradictory phrase that is usually spoken in prelude to a reply –
Panafest
From January 15 to February 12 1977, thousands of artists, writers, musicians, activists and scholars from Africa and the black diaspora descended on Lagos,
ECRANS D’AFRIQUE
Founded by African filmmakers in Burkina Faso in 1992, during a period […]
“Angazi, but I’m sure”: A Raw Académie Session
RAW Material Company is a Dakar-based centre for art, knowledge and society; […]
No Easy Truce Between Africa’s Most Powerful Brothership
By Tolu Ogunlesi On a per-person basis, South Africans drink four times […]
Shooting From Point Blank Range
Moses Serubiri turns on the television and watches the news unfold, in […]
‘Let’s face it: we’re in over our heads. We need the white folks to come back.’
Renegade Cameroonian filmmaker and theorist Jean-Pierre Bekolo Obama pulls no punches about his disaffection […]
Mining for Minds
Jean-Pierre Bekelo presents a film financing project offering payment in raw materials: “Mining for Minds”. […]
Read the Chimurenga Chronic in German
A special German-language edition of Chimurenga’s pan African gazette, the Chronic is […]
Not only our land but also our souls
Andile Mngxitama challenges historical and contemporary rhetoric that positions land theft in […]
The Way Back Home Article
The Way Back Home On the death of a close relative, Niq […]
The Chronic (April 2013)
A 48-page newspaper and 40-page stand-alone books review magazine featuring writing, art and photography inflected by the workings of innovation, creativity and resistance.
Les Saignantes
A young woman, beautiful, 20-something, is fucking […]
The Chronic (April 2013)
A 48-page newspaper and 40-page stand-alone books review magazine featuring writing, […]
Chimurenga 12/13 – Dr Satan’s Echo Chamber (Double-Issue March 2008)
A double-take on sci-fi and speculative writing from the African world, collectively titled “Dr. Satan’s Echo Chamber” after a dub mix by King Tubby.