It is an irony that the ­literary journal, Chimurenga, and its younger sibling, the Chimurenga Chronic, are produced in Cape Town. Indeed, that was the first question its founder, Ntone Edjabe, the ...

African Voices is a weekly show that highlights Africa’s most engaging personalities, exploring the lives and passions of people who rarely open themselves up to the camera. Bringing together an army ...

In all the focus the Western world has placed on the individual, it has lost sight of the family—both immediate and extended versions, encompassing the members of a shared culture. In part that's due ...

Chimurenga Renaissance is the duo of Shabazz Palaces' Tendai "Baba" Maraire and Seattle-based guitarist Hussein Kalonji, both sons of big names in diasporic African music. Maraire's father, Abraham ...

For the past decade, Cape Town based pan-African art, cultural, literature and political journal Chimurenga Magazine has provided an innovative platform for exchange of free ideas and political ...

In April of 1980, when Bob Marley arrived to headline the independence celebrations that would see Rhodesia become Zimbabwe, his song “Zimbabwe,” the centerpiece of the “Survival” album, was the most ...

Chimurenga music legend Thomas Mapfumo has dismissed as “false and malicious” reports suggesting that his upcoming Harare farewell show is in jeopardy, insisting the April concert will proceed as ...