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Chimurenga

Chimurenga

Chimurenga is a pan-African platform of writing, art and politics founded by Ntone Edjabe in 2002. Drawing together myriad voices from across Africa and the diaspora, Chimurenga takes many forms operating as an innovative platform for free ideas and political reflection about Africa by Africans.

Outputs include a journal of culture, art and politics of the same name (Chimurenga Magazine); a quarterly broadsheet called The Chronic; the Chimurenga Library – an ongoing invention into knowledge production and the archive that seeks to re-imagine the library; the African Cities Reader – a biennial publication of urban life, Africa-style; and the Pan African Space Station (PASS) – an online radio station and pop-up studio.

The aim of these activities is not just to produce new knowledge, but rather to express the intensities of our world, to capture those forces and take action. Chimurenga aims not only for a new set of questions but its own set of tools; new practices and methodologies that allow us to engage the lines of flight, fragility, precariousness, as well as joy, creativity and beauty that defines contemporary African life.