Angazi but I’m Sure A session of RAW Academy conceived and directed by Chimurenga Dakar, April 03 - May 26, 2017

Knowledge is not a possession, something we acquire and apply to practice. We learn by doing. It is necessarily communal – we learn by practicing, together, through the participation in, and the doing of. It involves conversations, putting what we know into dialogue with other bodies of knowledge and other bodies - seeing, hearing, tasting and touching. It involves movement, moving and being moved, knowing that we are affected, that we are affective. At RAW Academy, we will explore this method as outlined in the maps that follow - through the four work stations listed below:

Chronic editorial room - Daily editorial meetings invite participants to mark time, to take part in the invention and the intervention of the now-now, in what’s currently going on, and the things to come. It is the space we come together to ask questions and tell stories that enables us to see beyond our immediate ordeals and imagine the present differently. How do we use the tool that is specifically invented to mark time and space, the newspaper, to deconstruct both the tool and our sense of time? Can we find a new vernacular, a practice of writing that gives form to, and speaks from within our own time? How can ideas be complicated, reformulated, reimagined through articles, comics, maps, radio shows, reading rooms and publications?

Chimurenga Library – the library embodies the proposition evoked by the title by “finding oneself,” as Moses Molelekwa put it, on the shelves of the RAW Library; or quietly encroaching upon its classification system; or proposing a navigation system, clearly subjective and affective, for content found in Chimurenga, the 2017 RAW Academy and the collection of the RAW Library. It invites participants to bring what you know and use it to conduct research, dig through the crates, disrupt categories to produce new knowledge in dialogue with a broad community of thinkers, writers and artists.

PASS Studio - a periodic, pop-up live radio studio; a performance and exhibition space; a research platform and living archive, as well as an ongoing, internet based radio station. Taking advantage of both the intimacy and unpredictability of the live radio studio space and the reach and scope of the internet, PASS invites participants to work at the intersections between different fields, using sound, music and words as tools to both conduct research and share their findings via radio shows, live studio performances and sound essays and interventions.

Shebeen - Chimurenga has long considered the shebeen as a college of music. Here we draw on the improvisational pedagogical method of black musics, where learning is collapsed into performing, and teachers and learners share the stage. Rooted in Dakar, and open to the public through the week, it is based in improvisation – the collective process through which we sense, perceive, think, decide, and act, together in real time. CURRICULUM IS EVERYTHING video album art graphics audio book/publication event

THE CHIMURENGA LIBRARY Seminar: Cultures and Felwine Sarr, Civilisation ou Imaginations of Renewal Barbarie, 2000 How we forge communities, produce and circulate knowledge and operate in the border zones between informal/ An exploration of culture as a formal, licit/illicit, chaotic/ordered, etc. Our research has yielded an eclectic repository of stories and anecdotes, space of perpetual creation and Felwine Sarr, Les Mots du Récits, digital copies of documents, artworks, images, sound and film footage, as well as books, magazines and music the imaginary of the renewal, 2005 recordings. Our methodology is often closer to detective work, replete with entirely unexpected fortuitous coincidences, where social consensus, social Felwine Sarr, Bassai, 2007 even encounters with ghosts, allegorical and otherwise. It’s a practice of being surreptitious and aberrant with an norms are renegotiated, but index. It manifests as a shifting series of long-term projects, including Panafest – the story of four pan African festivals also as the place of ruptures, that shaped public cultures on the continent (Dakar 66, Algiers 69, Kinshasa 74 and Lagos 77). recompositions and renewals. The aim of the Chimurenga Library is not to produce a comprehensive bibliography of periodicals published in Africa; FELWINE SARR our approach is purely subjective. These are simply objects we Felwine Sarr, read and admire. It’s a sort of archipelago of counter-culture Seminar: Knowing From Here Méditations Africaines, platforms that impacted on our concept of the paper-periodical, the Everyday language expresses realities and Mémoire d’Encrier, publishable even. (http://chimurengalibrary.co.za/periodicals) imaginations at the intersection of the indigenous 2012 and the inbound and thus testifies to the creativities of the people who strategically deploy them. Our Felwine Sarr, Afrotopia, Philippe Rey, 2016 WHY SHOULD conversations will focus on science, technology, Felwine Sarr, Dahij, Ciraj Rassool, Discoveries of innovation, and entrepreneurship in our own Gallimard, 2009 AFRICAN WRITERS languages. Timbuktu, Chimurenga 16: Felwine Sarr, 105 WRITE ABOUT CLAPPERTON Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga, The Chimurenga Chronic , Rue Carnot, Mémoire SEX Oct 2011 C. MAVHUNGA Transient Workspaces: Technologies of d’Encrier, 2011 everyday innovation in Zimbabwe, MIT Stacy Hardy, A Brief History Iolanda Pensa, The Power of Wikipedia: Legitimacy and Press, 2014 of Presidential Libraries, the Control, the PMS Reader (http://powermoneysex.org.za/the- Read: Fanon, Frantz. Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga, ed. Chronic, August 2013 1959/1965. “Algeria 2017. What Do Science, Technology, power-of-wikipedia-legitimacy-and-control/) Unveiled,” and “This is the and Innovation Mean from Africa? ASTRO- Voice of Algeria,” A Dying Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. AFROSONICS Bwesigye Bwa Mwesigire, Marcus Colonialism. New York: Garvey is Alive in East Africa, the METHOD Grove Press. An incomplete Chimurenga roll call ARHCIVE Chronic , April 2016 http://www.chimurenga.co.za/archives/1583 AFTER FELA Francis Burger illustrates Fred Moten and Stefano Malcolm X Remix(ed) by Nathaniel Harney, Debt and Study, The Corpse Exhibition & Other Donnett, Pan African Space Station Graphic Stories, the Chronic, August 2016 (PASS) at Performa New York, 2015 (https://www.mixcloud.com/ Harmony Holiday, Poets Frank B. Wilderson, The University of Pressing Record(s), The chimurenga/nathaniel-donnett- Soweto, the Chronic, April 2016 What could the curriculum be – if it Chronic online (http:// malcolm-x-remix/) was designed by the people who chimurengachronic.co.za/ dropped out of school so that they Greg Tate, Meditations on Jimi poets-pressing-records/) Dambudzo Marechera, The House of Hunger, Hendrix, Chimurenga Library Chimurenga Library Catalogue Booklet, 2009 could breathe? Catalogue Booklet, 2009 Mythscience Records (https:// The Curriculum is Everything, mythscience.bandcamp.com/) The Hairdresser(s) of Harare w/ Nontsikelelo Chimurenga 15, May 2010 John Akomfrah and Edward Mutiti and Tinashe Mushakavanhu, Pan African Harmony Holiday, Call for an William Burroughs, My Education: A George, Black Audio Film Collective Space Station (PASS) at Performa New York, Archive of AfroSonics, The Book of Dreams, Viking Press, 1995 (BAFC), The Last Angel of History, 2015 (https://www.mixcloud.com/chimurenga/ Chronic, April 2013 Chimurenga Vol.12/13: Dr Satan’s nontsikelelo-mutiti-the-hairdresser-of-harare/) Stacy hardy, Love and Learning Echo Chamber, 2008 Astro/Afrosonics Archive: Amiri Baraka work(s), Under the World Bank the Chronic, PASS @ Performa, New York (https://www.mixcloud. Santu Mofokeng, The Trajectory of a Street August 2013 Nontsikelelo Mutiti’s Braiding Salon, com/chimurenga/charles-mingus-jazz-school/) Photographer, Chimurenga, Chimurenga 3: Pan African Space Station (PASS) at Pedro Monaville, How Third World Biko in Parliament, 2002 Performa New York, 2015 (https:// Sinzo Aanza, Pan Wendell Hassan Marsh: Students Liberated the West, Chronic, www.mixcloud.com/chimurenga/ Africanism in Katanga, Re-Membering the Name April 2016 The Papers, Joséphine braiding-salon-sound-collab/) The Chronic, New of God, The Chronic, New THE SHEBEEN Akin Adesokan, Method After Fela, Imani, the Chronic, April Cartographies, March 2015 Cartographies, March 2015 AS COLLEGE Chimurenga Vol.15: The Curriculum is 2016 LEXICON OF LOVE: Everything, May 2010 THE LANGUAGE Victor Gama, Searching for Augusto Zita, Isabel Hofmeyer, Sermon on the Train, The Chronic, July 2014 Chimurenga Vol. 15: The Curriculum OF FOOTBALL Simon Kuper, Sports Chatter, Hassan Khan reads ‘Twelve Clues’ the Chronic, April 2016 PASS landing at CiC Library, Cairo is Everything, May 2010 THE CHRONIC video album art graphics audio book/publication event A TIME TRAVEL NEW(S)PAPER TO WRITE THE PRESENT

How can we speak to the here and now-now - radical disjunctions between numerous different tem-poralities, dispersed entanglements and overlapping time-spaces we live in? Can we imagine the newspaper as a producer Chimurenga #16: The Chimurenga of time: a time machine that documents not just the present moment but also that which is emerging? How do we Chronicle deploy rumour-as-method against the hierarchies of infor-mation, of archival content and official language? The Chronic 1, April 2013 Chronic hijacks the newspaper – a popular me-dium that raises questions of news and newness, disposability and longevity and how we define both the now and history – to blow the distinction between known/unknown in quest Chronic 2 August 2013 for truth, and side-steps linear notions of time/place to document the fluidity of contemporary life Chronic 3 December 2013

Seminar: Creating from within Chief Priest Say, Chimurenga Chronic Posters Chronic 4 Special German-Language Library (http://chimurengalibrary. Can theatre be used as a vehicle Edition, May 2014 for self- expression for the public, We were guided by the words of composer, bandleader co.za/chief-priest-say) The Chronic 5, Graphic Stories, July 2014 LAILA allowing the society to think and theorist Sun Ra – a long time ago, back when SOLIMAN critically of its current power-politics outer space was the place he said: “Equation wise, the SITUATION and to renew itself in our times? first thing to do is consider internal linktime as officially The Chronic 6, New Cartographies, IS CRITICAL Why do we still find the present ended…we will work on the other side of time”. March 2015 moment important even if we know Muzmin, Arabic edition of the that it is impossible to capture? Ntone Edjabe, Diagnosing the Chimurenga Chronic 7, July 2015 YAP NEWS Is the present tense the trap of Chronic (www.rjr.ru.ac.za/rjrpdf/rjr_no32/ performance in the realm of Chronic 8, Reform and Revolution: The (Young African Diagnosing_the_Chimurenga_Chronic.pdf) Destruction of the University, April 2016 Pioneers news representation? letter) The Chronic 9, The Corpse Exhibition & LIFE AND Other Graphic Stories, August 2016 Fela Kuti, Jamal Mahjoub, Which Bruce Sterling, The DEATH OF Mr Grammarticalogylisationalism Is The Chronic German-language Edition, Africa Are We Talking Life and Death of the Boss, Excuse-O, 1975 MEDIA October, 2016 About?, The Chronic, New Media, Chimurenga Cartographies, March 2015 ALL THAT 16: The Chimurenga Njabulo Ndebele, Why Does Everything Need to be Exposed, Chronicle, October Blood Money: A Douala Chronicle by IS SOLID Akin Adesokan, Authority Excerpted from The Cry of Winnie Mandela, Chronicling the 2011 Dominique Malaquais, African Cities MELTS Stealing in Nigeria, the Chimurenga Chronic Broadsheet, 2010 Reader & Chimurenganyana INTO PR Chronic, August 2013 The Dead Media Abeng, The Chimurenga Library Project, (http://www. Periodicals (http://chimurengalibrary. Jeremy Weate, Situation is deadmedia.org/) co.za/periodicals) Achille Mbembe, Name Death & Text, Chimurenga Vol. 11: Critical, Chimurenga Vol. 16: Conversations With Poets Who Refuse To Speak, 2007 The Chimurenga Chronic, 2011 The Swarm, PASS, London (https:// THE INTERNET Sean O’Toole, Between Worldliness Dominique Malaquais, Rumblin’, Chimurenga 14: Everyone www.mixcloud.com/chimurenga/ Read: Sarah Rifky, Qalqalah, and Exile Homelessness and Has Their Indian, April 2009 & Chimurengas Nyyana sorryyoufeeluncomfortable-the- IS the Chronic, August 2016 Cosmopolitanism, Chronic Books, Ondjaki, A Geography of Times and Affects by Marissa swarm/London) AFROPOLITAN The Chronic 2015 Moorman, The Chronic, New Cartographies, March 2015 Harmony Holiday Your Own Hand Iolanda Pensa, The Power of Wikipedia: Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Horacio Castellanos Moya, Threatening Sold You (https://www.mixcloud.com/ Legitimacy and Control, the PMS Reader (http:// Alternative? Zero Books, 2009 the Hormonal Stability of Imbeciles, Brightmoments/your-own-hand-sold-you/) powermoneysex.org.za/the-power-of-wikipedia- All That is Solid Melts into PR, Mark Fisher, in Chimurenga 16: The Chimurenga Sean Jacob, Soft Power South African legitimacy-and-control/) conversation with Bongani Kona, The Chronic Chronicle, October 2011 Style, the Chronic, April 2013 Achille Mbembe, The Internet is Afropolitan, The New Cartographies, March 2015 Jide Adebayo Begun Dead Cow Soft Power Desire Machines and the Chronic, New Cartographies, March 2015 Fred Moten and Stefano Harney, The Spreads Fear and Rumour in Lagos Production of Africa Rising, The Chronic, New Alternative is at Hand, The Chronic, WHOSE HOUSE IS THIS? Chimurenga 16, The Suburb, Chimurenga 16 , The Cartographies, March 2015 August 2013 Chimurenga Chronicle, October 2011 Chimurenga Chronicle, October 2011 Harmony Holiday, What Follows? The State Sony Lab’Ou Tansi, The Shameful State, Speculative Futures and New Imaginaries of Black Collectivity in the Year of the Sheep, IF WHITE PEOPLE DIDN’T Indiana University Press, 2015 w/ JP Bekolo, Faustin Linyekula, African Chronic Online (http://chimurengachronic. INVENT AIR WHAT WOULD Defend the Dead: Omar Berrada on M. NourbeSe Futures festival (https://www.mixcloud. co.za/what-follows-the-state-of-black- com/chimurenga/africas-speculative- collectivity-in-the-year-of-the-sheep/) WE BREATHE? Philip’s Zong! (https://www.mixcloud.com/ chimurenga/defend-the-dead-omar-berrada-zong/) futures/) MUSIC AS RESEARCH video album art graphics audio book/publication event THE PAN AFRICAN SPACE STATION Seminar: Revolting songs can shield Carlos Moore, Fela: This Music has long functioned as both a form of knowledge and a source of knowledge, as a way of making (sometimes) against bullets. Bitch Of A Life, Pub. Alison sense of the world, of being present in it and of experiencing it. Beyond its many pleasures, music refers to Being a committed improvising musician, begin & Busby, 1982, Pp sound, or more appropriately “sounding”, as way to de-centre the Ocular Grand Central, the dominant mode with this riff on word associating the title: 55, 59. of knowledge production and verification (through eyesight) since the European Renaissance. Music teaches revolting=disgusting=overturning=overthowing Abdullah Ibrahim Interviewed us that knowledge of freedom is always knowledge of the experience of freedom. It renders visible the multiple mass=church liturgy=weight=the masses= In The Documentary Film, A juxtapositions that shape daily life. In the process, it becomes an archive of human experience. It is also the the great, lumpen mob! Brother With Perfect Timing, space in which the cliched separation of black life and technological innovation cannot hold. We use music Directed By Chris Austin, to challenge the division between practice and description, between experience and analysis, and to open a 1987. way to think through our world. “Imperial Citizenship And The Origins Of South NEO African Nationalism,” In Crossing Boundaries: Laura Chrisman, Post Ethnicity, Race, And National Belonging In A Seminar: Continental Afrofutures Colonial Conventions, MUYANGA Transnational World, Ed. Brian Behnken And Manchester University It is often pointed out that the Africanity Listening to FESTAC ‘77 w/ Ntone Edjabe Simon Wendt, Lexington Books, 2013 Press, 2003 in Afrofuturism takes no account of the and Kodwo Eshun, Pan African Space invention or the production of African Station at The Showroom, London 2015 Mohamed Mounir - Ezzay (Song For The Egyptian Paul Gilroy, The Black futures - Afrofuturisms, formulated during the (https://www.mixcloud.com/chimurenga/ Revolution)Https://Youtu.Be/Uyvvzpfzjzk Atlantic, Verso, 1997 festac-listening-session/) 1990s, are elaborated as Afrodiasporic Editors K. Radcliffe, J. Scott And A. Werner, Anywhere projects by practitioners in the UK, US and Kodwo Eshun discusses ten paragraphs Shana L. Redmond, Anthem: But Here - Black Intellectuals In The Atlantic World And the Caribbean. of music criticism, PMS Reader (http:// Social Movements And The Beyond, University Of Mississippi Press, 2015 The constraints of Afrofuturism, then powermoneysex.org.za/ten-paragraphs- Sound Of Solidarity In The James Sudbury, Becoming African In America, and now, therefore oblige continental of-music-criticism/) African Diaspora, NYC Press Oxford University Press, 2007 practitioners to either adapt the term to Black Utopia - Sun Ra studies, Pan African 2014 H. Mokoena, Magema Fuze – The Making Of A Kholwa take account of the specificity of African Space Station, The Showroom, London Rehad Desai, Miners Shot Intellectual, Ukzn Press 2011 KODWO futures or to invent a new concept capable 2015 (https://www.mixcloud.com/ Down, 2014 of grasping the range of contemporary chimurenga/black-utopia/) ESHUN practices across the continent that seek to Read: Neo Muyanga, In the Listening Room invent the future. Njabulo Ndebele, with Neo Muyanga, Chimurenga Vol. 16: The Thinking of Brenda, Chimurenga Kodwo Eshun, More Brilliant Than Chimurenga 01: Music Is The Sun, Quartet Books, 1998 The Weapon, April 2002 Listen: Neo Muyanga, DIPALO in The Chronic, DIPALO a mixtape for those who practice counting, Kodwo Eshun, Abducted by Audio & Chimurenganyana Chimurenga Vol. 16: The Chimurenga (http://www.ccru.net/swarm3/3_ abducted.htm) Watch: Neo Muyanga, DIPALO THE FOREST (https://vimeo.com/53495614) Read: John Akomfrah and Edward AND THE ZOO George, The Last Angel of History Black Audio Film Collective (BAFC) Even if I was not playing with them, just because they DR SATAN’S Chimurenga Vol.12/13: Dr Satan’s The accompanying fact that one of the great dub were around I would hear their music on the radio. If ECHO CHAMBER Echo Chamber, Match 2008 producers of the 1970s was called Scientist (Overton I heard Johnny Dyani, that was going to be my food Brown) and that the great tech-gnostic innovator Lee Black Audio Folm Collective, The Last that would make me survive musically for the next three “Scratch” Perry surrounded himself with occult mythology Angel of History. months. It was spiritual rejuvenation. Amos Tutuola, My Life in the Bush of and paraphernalia can be no accident. South African jazz in exile and at home, Ghosts, Grove Press, 1954 Louis Moholo in conversation with John Eyles, Louis Chude-Sokei, Dr Satan’s Echo Chamber, PASS London (https://www.mixcloud.com/ Charles Tundera Mude, Turntable, The Sound of Freedom, Chimurenga 02: Dis- Chimurenga 12/13: Dr Satan’s Echo Chamber , matttemple/pass-london-south-african-jazz-in- Chimurenga Vol. 5: Head/Body(&Tools)/ Covering Home, July 2002 March 2008 exile-and-at-home-feat-pinise-saul-with-vinyl- Corpses, April ’04 from-matsuli/) Julian Jonker, A Silent Way: Routes of South Playing with electricity: Dr. Satan’s Echo Chamber Chude-Sokei in conversation with Appau Reviving the Notes - Lesedi Mogoatlhe African Jazz 1946–1978, Chimurenga 1: DJ Ntone (http://panafricanspacestation.org.za/ Music is the weapon, April 2000 Junior Boakye-Yiadom and Kodwo Eshu, playing-with-electricity-vol4-electric-ladyland/) Genres of the Human Louis, The Showroom, Chimurenga Library Sessions, 2009. Louis Giovanni Russonello on South African jazz By London (https://www.mixcloud.com/ Julian Jonker, “Black Secret Technology,” Moholo-Moholo in conversation with Neo Chimurenga, Pan African Space Station (PASS) The_Showroom/genres-of-the-human-louis- Chimurenga 12/13: Dr Satan’s Echo Chamber, Muyanga at Performa New York, 2015 chude-sokei-in-conversation-with-appau- March 2008 Johnny Mbizo Dyani, The Forest and the Salim Washington with Winston Mankunku junior-boakye-yiadom-and-kodwo-eshu/) Louis Chude-Sokei, The Sound of Culture: Diaspora Zoo, Chimurenga Vol. 15: The Curriculum is Ngozi, Inaudible, Chimurenga Vol. 15: The and Black Technopoetics, Wesleyan University Press, Everything, May 2010 Curriculum is Everything (May 2010) 2015 For these vernacular phonograph musics not Akin Adesokan, Method After MUSIC only captured the timbres of decolonization; Fela, Chimurenga Vol. 15: The IS THE the emergence of these musics—hula, rumba, Curriculum is Everything, May beguine, tango, jazz, samba, marabi, 2010 WEAPON kroncong, tarab, chaabi—was decolonization. Revolting Songs: Black Music and Michael Denning, Noise Uprising - the Aesthetics of Protest, PASS, The Audiopolitics of a World Musical New York, 2015 (https://www. Revolution, Verso 2015 mixcloud.com/chimurenga/neo- Rebel Music and Black Arts: Hisham muyanga-revolting-songs-1/) Aidi w/ Abdi Latif Ega & Rashidah and (https://www.mixcloud. Ismaili Abubakr, Recorded for the com/chimurenga/neo-muyanga- Pan African Space Station (PASS) at revolting-songs-2/) Performa New York, 2015 (https:// Martin Munro, Different www.mixcloud.com/chimurenga/ Drummers: Rhythm and Race in hisham-aidi-conversation/) the Americas, Music of the African Hisham Aidi, Rebel music : race, Diaspora, UC Press, 2010 empire and the new Muslim youth The music points you to an outside, in other culture, Pantheon Books, 2013 THE words, an entirely different path. Or, as From As-salamu aleikum to “peace, god” or Lester Bowie put it, ‘one of the immediate dismantling wack emcees by their Arm, Leg, AFRO-HORN goals of our music is to stimulate thought…’ Leg, Arm, Head, the hypnotic idiom of hip hop ensures a trip into Islamish intellectual Brent Hayes Edwards, Crossroads memories. “Me and God so close, He let me Republic, Chimurenga 8: We’re call him Me,” Saul Williams, Slam. All Nigerian!, 2005 Read: Wendell Marsh, Re- Henry Dumas, Will The Circle Be Unbroken, Dark membering the Name of God, Matter: Reading The Bones anthology edited by The Chronic, New Cartographies, Stories about Music in Africa , PASS Pan African Space Station Pop-Ups Sheree Thomas, Aspect; Reprint edition, 2005 March 2015 (https://www.mixcloud.com/ Revolting Songs (http://panafricanspacestation.org.za/ Brent Hayes Edwards (Interpreted by Native Maqari) Read: The Cricket, Black Music chimurenga/) stories-about-music-in-africa-revolting-songs-neo/) The Afro Horn, Corpse Exhibition & other Graphic in Evolution, Jihad Productions 2000Black philosophies - dego w/ Circadian Clocks (https://panafricanspacestation.org.za/ Stories, the Chronic (August 2016) Harlem, New York 1968 - 1969, Kodwo Eshun, Pan African Space circadian-clocks-cara-stacey-reza-khota-brydon-bolton/) Chimurenga Library Periodicals Station, The Showroom, London It’s a shame, they’ll never change Here I have no weapons other than my journalism, my (http://chimurengalibrary.co.za/ 2015 (https://www.mixcloud.com/ (http://panafricanspacestation.org.za/its-a-shame- microphone and my unquenchable faith as a militant the-cricket-black-music-in-evolution) chimurenga/2000black-philosophy- theyll-never-change-lefifi-tladi-x-sibusile-xaba-x-tumi- for true change! DIPALO dego/) mogoroso/) Jonathan Demme, The Agronomist, 2004 Born To Be Black (http://panafricanspacestation.org.za/ Pass Me the Microphone: Bryan Gee w/ born-to-be-black-louis-moholo-moholo-andile-yenana/) Kodwo Eshun (https://www.mixcloud.com/ Floating Points at Gugu S’thebe A Comet is Coming (http://panafricanspacestation.org.za/ Frantz Fanon, This Is the Voice of Algeria, A chimurenga/pass-bryan-gee/) Theatre, Langa for Pan African stories-about-music-in-africa-a-comet-is-coming/) Dying Colonialism, Grove Press 1965 Space Station (https://soundcloud. Pass Me the Microphone: Phoebe Boswell com/chimurenga/floating-points-in- Lidudumalingani Mqombothi, The Art of (https://www.mixcloud.com/chimurenga/ langa-for-pan-african-space-station) Suspense, The Chronic, April 2016 pass-junior-boakye-yiadom/) L’Aventure Ambigue - Pan African Space Station, Pass Me the Microphone: Rehana Zaman Thath’i cover PASS live at Guga live at Tagore, Cape Town Jan 13, 2011(https:// Shabaka Hutchings: Decolonising the Mind from a (https://www.mixcloud.com/ S’thebe, Langa, Cape Town https:// soundcloud.com/chimurenga/laventure-ambigue- (modern) jazz musician’s perspective (https://www. chimurenga/pass-hardeep-pandhal/) soundcloud.com/chimurenga/thathi- live-at-tagore-jan-13) mixcloud.com/chimurenga/shabaka-hutchings- cover-live-at-guga concert-lecture-1/ and https://www.mixcloud.com/ Geoff Dyer, Melodious Thunk, Finding Fela, Pan African Space Station chimurenga/shabaka-hutchings-concert-lecture-2/) Chimurenga 11: Conversations With (https://soundcloud.com/chimurenga/ Poets Who Refuse To Speak, July Pan African Space Station - a visual Arkestral Dedications and The Frequency of Magic finding-fela) 2007 history (https://www.instagram. w/ Anthony Joseph and Shabaka Hutchings com/p/BQPh3NFj9JC/) (https://www.mixcloud.com/chimurenga/anthony- joseph-concert-lecture/) MORE BRILLIANT THAN THE SUN Shabaka Hutchings, We Need New Myths, the Steve Coleman, Floyd Leo Smith, Rhythm a Amiri Baraka, Digging: Chronic, April 2016 Mayweather and Improvised Study in Rhythmunits in The Afro-American Soul of Robin D. G. Kelley, Africa Speaks, Modalities of Rhythm, Creative Music, 1976 American Classical Music, Ajay Heble, Landing on the Wrong Note: Jazz, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Chimurenga 15: The Curriculum Music of the African Diaspora, Dissonance, and Critical Practice, Routledge; 2000 Revolutionary Times, 2012 is Everything, May 2010 UC Press, April 2010 Only by training ourselves to Astro/Afrosonics Archive: Charles Kinshasa au bord du présent, Pan African Space listen again will we even begin to Mingus Jazz School, PASS at Performa Station (https://soundcloud.com/chimurenga/ 52 recognize the abject robotics of New York, 2015 https://www.mixcloud. au-bord-du-present) NIGGERS popular speech today, and poetry com/chimurenga/harmony-holiday- and poetics encourage that skillful charles-mingus-jazz-school/ listening that might have the capacity The invention of Africa by Franco & T.P.OK Jazz, George E. Lewis, A Power Stronger Than Itself: to bring us back to ourselves. Pan African Space Station the AACM and American Experimental Music, (https://soundcloud.com/chimurenga/the- University of Chicago Press, 2008 Hamony Holiday, “Manifesto for Afro- invention-of-africa-by) Astrosonics”, The Chronic, April 2013 Gwen Ansell, Unchain the Art - review of Rhythmatisms: 1979-87 kongotronic George Lewis’, A Power Stronger Than Itself: funkexperiments by Ray Lema A’nsi Nzinga, Pan the AACM and American Experimental Music, African Space Station (https://soundcloud.com/ and Nathaniel Mackey’s Bass Catherdral, chimurenga/rhythmatisms-1979-87-kongotronic- Chimurenga 16: The Chronic funk-experiments-by-ray-lema-ansi-nzinga) Brent Hayes Edwards presents The Two Ages of Artist House: Ornette Coleman on Prince Street. Paula Akugizibwe, Welcome to Zamrock, PASS, New York, 2015 (https://www.mixcloud. the Chronic, April 2003 com/chimurenga/the-two-ages-of-artist-house/) It’s international music, you know, rock and roll – THE BEAUTIFUL IN THE WORLD even the equipment they use at these shows is very Guerino B. Mazzola, Paul B. Cherlin in OF CONGOLESE SOUNDS modern, but the sound is unique, our own Zambian Collaboration with Mathias Rissi and Nathan thing.... Jagari, whose nickname is a hybrid of the Kennedy, Flow, Gesture, and Spaces in Free Rolling Stones’ Mick Jagger and Nigerian politician Jazz - Towards a Theory of Collaboration, It is in sound, first and foremost, that Bebson’s Shehu Sagari, is the larger-than-life soul of Witch. Computational Music Science, Springer-Verlag practice finds its soul… In Kinshasa, he samples a world of industrial heaves and hos: the sound Berlin Heidelberg, 2009 Wanlov, We Almost Died Thrice, The Chronic, “What was it? Rhythm! Listen to our singer, of motors, hammers and shears, gunshots and New Cartographies, March 2015 Leopold Senghor... It is composed of a theme— Wu Ming 1, New Thing, Einaudi, Turin 2004 - firecrackers, blown speakers, TVs on the fritz and sculptural form— which is set in opposition to a Métailié, Paris 2007 pots and pans clanging… Yes. No. In the past things were like that. If you’re griot like sister theme, as inhalation is to exhalation, and that is repeated. It is not the kind of symmetry that Wu Ming 1’s Liner Notes for The Old New Thing: me… because griotism is what besides the talent? It is mainly gives rise to monotony; rhythm is alive, it is free. A Free Jazz Anthology, Abraxas/Esp-Disk, 2007 about knowledge. Today this knowledge is on the internet! Eléonore Hellio, The Anti-Art of [Laughs] Whether you’re in Touba or in Thies wondering This is how rhythm affects what is least intellectual Wu Ming, The Old New Thing: A Free Jazz Kongofuturism, The Chronic, April 2013 who is Doudou N’Diaye Rose… it’s all there! The story of in us, tyrannically, to make us penetrate to the Anthology, Abraxas/Esp-Disk, 2007 Cheikh Anta Diop. It’s all there! The net has diminished the spirituality of the object; and that character of work of the griot. abandon which is ours is itself rhythmic... And Read: Youssou N’Dou in conversation with now how my voice vibrates!...Listen.... Listen... Binyavanga Wainaina, It’s only a Matter of Listen”. Acceleration, the Chronic, July 2014 Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks, Grove Press; Revised edition, 2008 WHYCOME KAMERUN BE BASS CENTRAL Henri-Michel Yere, Zouglou: A Fighting Prayer Dansons Donc le Zouglou, Zim was – it sounds like a paradox, but he was a Chimurenga Vol. 15: The Curriculum is warrior of healing. Everything he did was in line Everything, May 2010 with that. A jazz musician who is dedicated to true Lionel Manga, Whycome Kamerun be creativity and to depth in music, and to spirituality in Bass Central, The Chronic, April 2013 music, finds it very hard to function in this world of ours. So whenever we play, it is an attempt at healing, for ourselves firstly. If that is achieved in the self, then for the people listening as well. Listening to Bikutsi w/ Christine Eyene, PASS in the Chimurenga Library at The Showroom, London 2015 (https:// Kyle Shepherd in The New Thing, Lindokuhle www.mixcloud.com/chimurenga/ Nkosi, the Chronic August 2013 bikutsi-christine-eyene/) Maakomele R. Manaka, Woza Moya, The James Winders, Paris Africain: Rhythms Chronic, August 2013 of the African Diaspora, Palgrave, 2006 COMICS AND THE LOWER FREQUENCIES video album art graphics audio book/publication event Seminar: Breathing Out of School Refusing the boundaries between high and low art, cartooning and comic, art and popular culture, Lower Dominique Malaquais, Blood Money: A Douala My proposal is this: to convene Frequencies engages public and popular forms of expression that insert themselves directly into daily life. Chronicle, African Cities Reader I a conversation that is a pretext to Taking inspiration from Nollywood video productions, Congolese popular music and comics, South African Dominique Malaquais, Anti-Teleology, African Cities breathe. Suppose a breathing machine fotonovelas, and more, we invite participants to work in media that push representational limits and create a Reader II: Mobilities & Fixtures designed by Sony Labou Tansi. hinge between the world of concepts and the world of bodily experience. We propose that graphic expressions Suppose we build it together. of laughter, sex, violence, arbitrariness, bodies, tactility, and consuming presented in these forms have the Dominique Malaquais, Sexing Africa, Again, capacity to both enforce and subvert power; at once, to mimic power and to kidnap and force it, as if by Chimurenga Vol. 5, Head/Body(&Tools)/Corpses, April accident, to examine its own “vulgarity”. 2004 & The PMS Reader (http://powermoneysex.org. DOMINIQUE za/sexing-africa-again/) Stacy Hardy, Somewhere between a scream MALAQUAIS Seminar: Motion Picture/ Motion and a lullaby, Chimurenga 16: The Chimurenga Sony Labou Tansi, The Thinking/ Motion Telling Chronic, October 2011 Shameful State, Indiana Instead of Motion Picture, let us talk Jean-Pierre Bekolo Vimeo (https://vimeo.com/user1582628) The comics suggested that people valued sex, University Press, 2016 about Motion Telling and Motion thought about it, but knew that its graphic expression Thinking. Let’s talk about a cinema Quartier Mozart, 1992 must be framed within the strictures of a conservative that stimulates thought, and as a Le Complot d’Aristotle (Aristotle’s Plot), 1996 Suren Pillay, How I learned to love Voetsek, society and available media forms. consequence, action to give birth An Essay, Chimurenga Library (http:// Les Saignantes, 2005 Akin Adesokan, On The Lower Frequencies, to a new world. chimurengalibrary.co.za/how-i-learned-to- The Chronic, Chimurenga, July 2014 Le Président (The President), 2013 love-voetsek) Les Choses et les Mots de Mudimbe, 2015 Achille Mbembe, “Aesthetics of Vulgarity,” On the Postcolony, University of California. self-proclaimed culture terrorist Elliot JEAN-PIERRE Naked Reality, 2016 Press, 2001 Josephs aka Zebulon Dread, HEI BEKOLO VOETSEK!, Cape Town, South africa Cinémas du Congo: Jean-Pierre AESTHETICS OF 1997 – 2002, Chimurenga Library (http:// Bekolo /w Mwezé Ngangura chimurengalibrary.co.za/hei-voetsek) & Chéri Samba (https://www. VULGARITY Zebulon Dread, Arts festival or Seminar: mixcloud.com/chimurenga/ Boerfest?, Chimurenga Library (http:// This session explores the cinemas-du-congo-jp-bekelo/) Ettore Majorana by chimurengalibrary.co.za/arts-festival-or- satirical media. Starting with the Grandma’s Grammar/ La Lionel Manga Film boerfest) caricatural gaze of satire, which https://www. grammaire de ma grand-mère, A Chronic #4: Graphic stories incl Hei Voetsek! reveals its author’s capacity for youtube.com/ Film by Jean-Pierre Bekolo, - The Lost Issue, July 2014 indignation and pessimism in 1996, Ecrans d’Afrique: Revue watch?v=ratwGif4B68 response to events and people. Zebulon Dread, Holiday Planning with Hei Internationale de Cinema Television Emmanuel Iduma in Conversation with IBRAHIMA Explaining one’s choice for Voetsek!, The Chronic, Graphic Stories, July et Video (African Screen), Lionel Manga invisibleborders https://www. laughter rather than despair. 2014 FALL Chimurenga Library (http:// youtube.com/watch?v=tUH3Pm2ZQGg chimurengalibrary.co.za/ecrans- Akin Adekosan, Ayinde Barrister: Tribute to a Seminar: Excentricities, Complexities and Translations dafrique) True Exponent, The Chronic Muzmin, June 2015 LIONEL We follow the metamorphosis of knowledge through An exploration of Fuji music with Akintayo MANGA mathematics, biology, physics, astrophysics, among Abodunrin – PASS, Lagos (https://www. GOSPEL other disciplines, and explore the new mindset, emerging in response to environmental perils. mixcloud.com/chimurenga/an-exploration- CHRISTIAN of-fuji-music-with-akintayo-abodunrin-live-at- Welcome to the Anthropocene. freedom-park-lagos/) PORN RAP Joe, Terry Hist Nairobi, Kenya 1973-1979, The FOKN Bois LIVE at Greatmore Studios, Chimurenga Library (http://chimurengalibrary.co.za/ Just a Band, Ha-He, The PMS Cape Town (https://www.mixcloud. Reader (http://powermoneysex. Joe – An Essay by Sam Kahiga, The Chimurenga Library com/chimurenga/fokn-bois-live-at- org.za/ha-he/) greatmore-studios-cape-town/) MFUMU’ETO, Kinshasa, DRC Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah, 1990s, Chimurenga Library (http:// The Chronic: The Corpse Exhibition & Other Wanlov the Kubolor live at Slave Gospel Christian Porn Rap, The chimurengalibrary.co.za/mfumueto) Graphic Stories, August 2016 Church, PASS 2009 (https:// Chronic, March 2013 Bibish Marie-Louise Mumbu, Le mot- soundcloud.com/chimurenga/wanlov- Chimurenga 09: Conversation In Luanda & clé de Mfumu’eto 1er sur toute la the-kubolor) FOKN Bois, Coz Ov Moni, 2010 Other Graphic Stories, June 2006 prochaine décennie: « Ko siemisa », Chimurenga Library (http:// Pumle April, Avions De Nuit, the Chronic, August 2016 FOKN Bois, FOKN Bois “Sexin’ Islamic girls”, Coz Ov Moni – The Remix EP, chimurengalibrary.co.za/le-mot-cle-de- mfumueto-1er-sur-toute-la-prochaine- Beatrice, 2012 FOKN Wit Ewe, 2012 2010 Magdy El-Shafee, PASS live from the CiC Library in Cairo decennie-ko-siemisa) Binyavanga Wainaina, I am a The truth is that the various journalists, sociologists, homosexual, Mum, Chronic online Defiant desire: Gay and lesbian ethnologists, Africanists, literary types, Negrophile (http://chimurengachronic.co.za/i-am- lives in South Africa, ed. Mark Yambo Ouologuem, THE YAMBO OUOLOGUEM ‘specialists,’ and so on, who write about Africa, a-homosexual-mum-by-binyavanga- Gevisser and Edwin Cameron, READER: The Duty of Violence, A Black are seeking to invent an Africa that can serve wainaina/) Routeledge, 1995 Ghostwriter’s Letter to France, and The Thousand as a backdrop for them to reveal to the entire and One Bibles of Sex, Translated and Edited world their own genius… the satiric genre of the Zackie Achmat, My childhood as an adult Nick Mwaluko, XXYX Africa, the by Christopher Wise, Africa World Press; First pamphlet… will be ferocious enough that it will put molester: A Salt River moffie, The PMS Chronic, December 2013 edition, 2008 an end to the comedy of the whimpering Negro, Reader (http://powermoneysex.org.za/ African Sexualities: A Reader Yambo Ouologuem, LE DEVOIR DE VIOLENCE, who is nonetheless untouchable—and that it will my-childhood-as-an-adult-molester-a-salt- Sylvia Tamale (Ed.) Pambazuka Le Serpent à Plumes, 2003, 1968 also cause both Blacks and Whites to at last stop river-moffie/) Press, 2011; Queer Africa : wallowing in bad conscience, especially those The PMS Reader (http://powermoneysex.org.za) New and Collected Stories Utto Rudolph aka Yambo Ouologuem, Mille et POWER Karen Martin, Makhosazana une bibles du sexe, 1969 who are audacious enough to love one another, MONEY Xaba (Eds) MaThoko’s Books, but who endlessly complain of not knowing how Yemisi Aribisala, Sister Outsider, the Chronic, 2013; Queer African Reader to express it. April 2016 SEX Boniface Mongo-Mboussa, MILLE Sokari Ekine, Hakima Abbas Dany Laferriere, Why Must A Black Writer Write How to write about Africa, READER (Eds), Pambazuka Press, 2013 ET BIBLES Amos Tutuola, The Palm- About Sex, Coach House Press, 1994 Chimurenga Vol. 16: The Chimurenga Chronic, October DU SEXE Wine Drinkard & My Life In 2011 The Bush Of Ghosts, Faber A Week in the Life of Kola Boof: Neo Muyanga, The Sex For Rustum Kozain‘s Adult and Faber, (1952) 2014 Tweet Verse, The PMS Reader Money No Power Mixtape (http:// alphabet (http:// (http://powermoneysex.org. powermoneysex.org.za/the-sex-for- powermoneysex.org. Achal Prabhala, Secular Stories, Chimurenga Vol. The Complete Gentleman, za/a-week-in-the-life-of-kola- money-no-power-mixtape-by-neo- za/adult-alphabet/) 16: The Chimurenga Chronic, October ‘11 London Kamwendo’s boof-tweet-verse/ muyanga-achal/) interpretation of Amos If Brenda had discovered something exciting about being a NEW Tutuola’s sly satire of nun, something about which, as a musician, she could say Viva Riva! Directed by The photo fictions share the dialectic spectral global capitalism some outrageous things, and swing her pelvis on the stage in BUSH Djo Munga, 2010 of morality and salaciousness with the and Afro-modernity, The the process, with the kind of zeal some born-again religious Clarissa Cummings, Viva magazine’s crime features. But they are OLD Corpse Exhibition Chronic, people can demonstrate, she would have played around with Riva Sex Mashup, The less brutal in denouement, sometimes GHOSTS August 2016 saintliness as a method of expression. At bottom is the desire PMS Reader (http:// almost sweet, and often really weird. to be. To be free, although unbridled freedom, like the political powermoneysex.org.za/ Pulp! Kai Friese, the PMS Reader strategy or ungovernability, can bum the one that wields it. If Amos Tutuola had not lived, and viva-riva-sex-mashup/) http://powermoneysex.org.za/pulp/ Njabulo Ndebele, Thinking of Brenda, written stories in English, African Chimurenga Vol.1, Music Is The Weapon, April literature would probably have had to Jabu Comes to Joburg by Achal 2002 invent him. CONVERSATIONS Prabhala, The Chronic, April 2016 IN LUANDA Coco Fusco: A Fieldguide for Female Harry Garuba, And the Books Lived African Film, Drum Publications Ltd. Lagos, Interrogators, Chimurenga 15: The Happily Ever After, The Chronic, Nigeria 1960 & 70s, Chimurenga Library (http:// Curriculum is Everything, May 2010 March 2015 Uzor Maxim Uzoatu, We chimurengalibrary.co.za/african-film) are all Nigerian. Onitsha WE’RE ALL Louis Chude-Sokei New Bush Old Republic, The Chronic, Congolese dance is a carnal endeavour. Against platonizing NIGERIAN Ghosts, Chimurenga Vol. 16: The August 2013 ideologies that would cast the body as a prison for the soul, Chimurenga Chronic, October ‘11 dancing here is a celebration of the flesh. The body is absolute Rakesh Khanna, Authority flux and music is invested with the power to enter it, penetrating Chimurenga JIRO: You know, once upon a time the Stealing: The business of it to the core....Music “breaks bones” (buka mikuwa) and “hurls 05: Head/ French government supported arty films in crime writing in Kenya, India bodies” (bwakanka nzoto), causing women and men to “behave Body(&Tools)/ Francophone countries. But now the French and Nigeria, The Chronic, like snakes” (na zali ko bina lokolo nioka). Corpses, April Cultural Centre here in Nigeria wants to April 2013 2004 bring French moviemakers here to study our Achille Mbembe, Variations on the Beautiful in the Tunde Giwa, Black Like Us – Bessie Head, methods. They cannot understand how we Congolese World of Sounds, Chimurenganyana An Essay, African Film, Drum Question of Power, can make a movie in seven days—and still The stimulation worked like a Publications Ltd. Lagos, Nigeria Heinemann, 1974 enjoy lunchtime. sewing machine; turn the handle 1960 & 70s, Chimurenga Library THE CORPSE Tony Mochama, Close with a big swing, then the needle Chimurenga 10: (http://chimurengalibrary.co.za/ encounters at the Florida Dance of the Infidels presents: EXHIBITION rattles up and down; turn the handle Futbol, Politricks african-film) 1000, the Chronic, Nollywood Confidential starring again and so on. & Ostentatious March 2013 Zeb Ejiro, Ajoke Jacobs, Tunde In contrast to the sexual permissiveness of roots theatre, Cripples, December 2006 Kelani, and Aquila Njamah, the hysterical denunciation of male homosexuals in the Koffi Kwahule: On The Chimurenga 6: The Orphans Of Varun Baker, Days and Nights in dancehall space is pierced with anxieties about masculine Bridge (translated by Fanon, October 2004 identity and control of the nation on the part of marginalized Kingston and Rio, The PMS Reader Dominique Malaquais), black males as represented by DJs. (http://powermoneysex.org.za/ Chimurenga 12/13: Dr Chimurenga BLACK GAYS Chronic Books, How to Be Annie Paul, “Over the Borderline”, PMS Reader days-and-nights-in-kingston-and- Satan’s Echo Chamber, 08: We’re All AND MUGABES Nigerian, The Chronic, (http://powermoneysex.org.za/over-the-borderline/) rio/nggallery/image/rio-di-janeiro- March 2008 Nigerian!, september-10-2011-2/) December 2005 August 2013 FOOD IS KNOWLEDGE video album art graphics audio book/publication event

Food security has emerged as powerful discourse in our global world. But food itself is largely absent from The Cookery Book is organized alphabetically. He opens to C finds Curry these discussions. We put to it back on the table. How can we understand food itself as knowledge? Can we (Cucumber) smaller type underneath (A Cape Dish). recognise and trust our hands, tongues, noses, fingers and stomachs as powerful tools for creating, interpreting ‘H’ offers its own section Home Remedies such as the teaspoonful of Rustum Kozain, Curry and sharing knowledge? How does food embody knowledge differently? How can we learn to access and act cream of tartar promised Chronicles- Dal or Dhal, not of this knowledge? Can we envisage food as art, foodmakers as scientists, and shared meals as acts of radical to stop a nosebleed. His mother’s nose bled in streams Dull, the Chronic, April 2016 hospitality? We embrace the kitchen as a laboratory and a studio – a site of corporeal research, improvisation, but they were given liquid cocaine to stop it. experiment and revelation that takes seriously growing, preparing, and consuming food as “knowing” activities. Rustum Kozain, Curry A Cape Hospital Remedy… Chronicles, the Chronic, Cullen ignores The Politician’s Cookbook in his inventory August 2013 published by Faircape Books in 1982 subtitled: conversations with 25 South African politicians Yemisi Aribisala, Nollywood Rustum Kozain, Fufu Pot: 161 of their favorite recipes… Kiss, The PMS Reader YEMISI A Truth Hard to Swallow, Cullen can fall asleep reading Traditional Cookery of the Cape Malays (http://powermoneysex.org. Seminar: How to make a palatable Chimurenga 16: Chimurenga (manuscript completed by Mrs H. Herxheimer 1949). za/nollywood-kiss/) ARIBISALA ‘Konkoksie’: Global table-manners & Chronic, October 2011 Each recipe is preceded by the name of the woman who contributed it. other people’s otherness Yemisi Aribisala, Longthroat Oxtrotter Met Blomkool (Oxtrotters with cauliflower) The global dining table exists. It is Memoirs: Soups, Sex Recipe: Mrs Slaman, 98 Kildare Rd., Newlands round, but many people want to put and Nigerian Taste Buds, edges in it and make it square or CURRY Cassavas Republic, 2016 Cullen Goldblatt, brinjals, Chimurenga 7: KAAPSTAD! (and rectangular. They want the angle to CHRONICLES Yemisi Aribisala, Fish Soup sit in someone’s belly and remind that Jozi, The Night Moses Died), 2005 As Love Potions, Chimurenga person they don’t really belong at the Black study is the irreducibly social mode of 16, The Chimurenga table. They also want to sit at the head Dambudzo Marechera, Fuzzy Goo’s concern that blackness enacts in its constant, Chronic, October 2011 and exclude for reasons as simple as Guide (to the Earth), Chimurenga Vol. preservative differentiation of and from itself. Laura dislike and as complex as hunger. 15: The Curriculum is Everything, 2010 Mustapha Benfodil, Paris- Harris calls it an aesthetic sociality; RA Judy calls it Algiers, Underground Class, Dalle Ebrahim, Bordering on a poetic sociality. We think of it as a coenobitically Un Hommage à Goddy Leye: We Are The Chimurenga Vol.6: Orphans of Borana, The Chronic, New monastic kind of thing – a Thelonial, rather than World, 2006, Cup of Tea, 2011 (http:// Fanon, October 2004 LONGTHROAT Cartographies, March 2015 Benedictine, monkishness. The laws it makes chimurengachronic.co.za/une-hommage- MEMOIRS are against rule, against the rules. It happens in a-goddy-leye/) (https://vimeo.com/ Ask anyone from Malabo and they will Nationally, one can plot the points of churches but also in clubs; it happens in cells and channels/829863/112069633) (https:// tell you to come over and enjoy Malabo: a giant samoosa from Cape Town to in the holds of ships. It persists, under duress, as www.youtube.com/watch?v=juRwP4vcVMU) its sunny days, its rainy days, its silent and Durban to Johannesburg. Apartheid criticism and celebration. noisy nights. Malabo at night smells like fish kept the samoosa out of Vrystaat, but Jihan El Tahri , The on the coals and Senegalese rice. Euclideans say things are changing… The Fred Moten and Stefano Harney, The Price of Aid, Dominant samoosa is the triangle par excellence. EDIBLE Alternative is at Hand, The Chronic, 7, ARTE France, 2003 Recaredo Silebo Boturu, The Bite It is geometry, mysticism, food and earth INSTALLATIONS August 2013 Relaxing, Okello and the Embrace, The Chronic, New science all at once. Sam, The PMS Cartographies, March 2015 Reader (http:// Rustum Kozain You Can’t Get Wanlov the Kubolor, We almost powermoneysex.org. Broadly speaking, there are two kinds Lost in the Samoosa Triangle, died thrice, The Chronic, New za/relaxing/) of liquids, horrid and nice. The horrids Chimurenga 14, Everyone Has Cartographies, March 2015 include strained pulp of aloe, tulsi Their Indian, April ‘09 JOLLOF water, and asafoetida tea; nice ones Rashida Bumbray with Dr. Segun It was early morning on a Sunday and Digger Jazz was include mango juice, buttermilk, and Shabaka, PASS POP-UP Live at cooking something awesome on the semi automatic Pilot DIARIES tender-coconut water. Most people with record player cum wireless machine that stood in the sitting A study conducted by an Performa 15 - New York http:// horrid liquids on their prescription calmly panafricanspacestation.org.za/ room on four legs. I asked him what he was cooking on the substitute something nice. American university on the gumba-gumba. He explained to me that the Long Player (LP) nutrition of Kenyan athletes rashida-bumbray-with-dr-segun- Achal Prabhala, The Road To shabaka/ on the turntable of the Hi-Fi was a dangerous brew by the Wellville, Chimurenga Vol. 16: The concluded, almost with Jazz Ministers and the singer on the track was Bra Victor Chimurenga Chronic, October 2011 amazement, that milk and sugar Ndlazolwana. I said “heyta daar!” And later when he was in tea are among the top sources Mike Abrahams, Out of sight and out organising me a chis kop with a Minora blade, he explained to of protein and carbohydrates of mind in High Care, Chimurenga BEERSHIP me the piano of Tete Mbambisa. I said heyta daar! again. respectively for runners. Vol. 16: The Chimurenga Chronic, We Used To Dance, by Sandile Dikeni, Chimurenga 2: October 2011 Dis-Covering Home, July ’02 Jackie Lebo, Setting The Pace is a Small Town’s Big Business, Chimurenga Vol 16: The Chimurenga Chronic, October 2011 NEW CARTOGRAPHIES video album art graphics audio book/publication event THE SAHARA IS NOT A BOUNDARY Olivier Vallée, The Last King The Sahara Desert, the How do we shift knowledge about and from Africa from “what it should be” to what we experience and of Africa, The Chronic, New Mediterranean Sea, or even the imagine it to be? How do we make visible what is emerging or re-emerging across our continent - with the Cartographies, March 2015 Red Sea, are not necessarily knowledge that reimagining a cartography of Africa is also reimagining a cartography of the world. Our reality Mapping The Last King of Africa, boundaries, they have rather been cannot be mapped only by GDP, GDS, IDF and related indicators of “development”. Scales, set squares and The Chronic, New Cartographies, highways for the exchange of compasses alone would not work; we also require hands, feet and hearts. And memory – memory is the art March 2015 people and ideas through history. of the stateless. THE SAHARA Ziad Bentahar with Marcia Lynx Qualey, The Sahara is not Seminar: Radical Cartography IS NOT A a Boundary, Muzmin, Arabic A journey into the world of BOUNDARY edition of the Chronic, July 2015 experimental cartography. By A map of Africa produced in experimental (or critical) we mean to Hiwar Magazine, June 1965 introduce a specific cartographical Rayyane Tabet, Season’s Greetings, Muzmin, Arabic in Michael Vasquez, Hiwar, practice, implemented individually edition of the Chronic, July 2015 Muzmin, Arabic edition of the or collectively in a participative Jeune Afrique Map, Muzmin, Arabic edition Chronic, July 2015 way, either by geographer, artists, of the Chronic, July 2015 activists, researchers, journalists, Akin Adesokan, Timbuktu: architects, urban planners, etc PHILIPPE http://www.victorgama.org/ An Old African Saying, REKACEWICZ Muzmin, Arabic edition of Philippe Rekacewicz, Itineraries, https://soundcloud.com/victor-gama the Chronic, July 2015 Chimurenga Vol. 14 Everyone Has Their Indian, April ’09 https://vimeo.com/victorgamamusic Seminar: Containers of meaning, VICTOR devices for reconstruction and Victor Gama, searching For Augusto narratives of the spirit Seminar: Remapping African Identities The Chronic, New Cartographies, Zita, The Chronic, New Cartographies, GAMA An overview of creative How to methodologically question the givens of our March 2015 March 2015 strategies and processes, knowledge? And how to propose an alternative Jorge Luis Borges, On Exactitude in an opportunity for micro narrative? How do we reconstruct our own Science, Collected Fictions, Penguin Dominique Malaquais, compositions and performances knowledge based on our own history and reality? Chimurenga vol.2 “Dis-Covering Random house, 1999 Home (run nigga run)”, June Sexing Africa, Again, and instrument design. Jihan El-Tahri, Requiem for Revolution, Stacy Hardy, A Brief History of 2002 Chimurenga vol The Chronic, November 2013 Mapping, the Chronic, April 2013 5: Triptych: Head/ JIHAN Wendell Hassan Marsh, Re- Sony Labou Tansi’s Kongo Kingdom Body(&Tools)/Corpses, EL-TAHRI Membering the Name of God, SECRET Map traced on the inside cover of A April 2004 The Chronic, New Cartographies, Notebook Of Commencement Des COUNTRIES Jihan el-Tahri, The Koran and the March 2015 Kalashniko Douleurs Chris Abani, The Face: Jihan el-Tahri, L’Afrique en Dambudzo Marechera, Fuzzy Roberto Bolaño, Number 11, Cartography of the Void, The morceaux, 2000 Goo’s Guide (to the Earth), Chimuenga 15: The Curriculum is Chronic, New Cartographies, Jihan el-Tahri, The Price of Aid/Les maux Chimurenga 15: The curriculum is Everything, May 2010 March 2015 de la faim, 2003 everything, May, 2010 Lesego Rampolokeng in Jihan el-Tahri, The House of Saud, 2004 Conversation with Mafika Gwala, I learned to read some of life’s maps also with her. This Jihan el-Tahri, Cuba! Africa! Revolution!, 2007 Poets Are Hurting, The Chronic, grandmother, with a generous openness, gave me a Jihan el-Tahri, Behind the Rainbow, 2009 AFRICAN NAMES OF July 2015 geography of times and affects that came from her tales THE INDIAN OCEAN and that were shown to me, late at night, like giant A Native of Nowhere w/ Kemang Wa holograms where it was necessary to learn to read. African Cities Reader II: Mobilities and Lehulere, PASS, The Showroom, London Sudirman Adi Makmur, I Travel With Fixtures, May 2011 2015 (https://www.mixcloud.com/ Marissa Moorman, Ondjaki, A Geography The Dead, Chronic, April 2013 Akin Adesokan, The Amazing Career chimurenga/a-native-of-nowhere-w- of Times and Affects, The Chronic, New of Passport Number B957848, No Pass But 6 Passports, Pan African Space Station kemang-wa-lehulere/) Cartographies, March 2015 Chimurenganyana and in Chimurenga (https://soundcloud.com/chimurenga/no-pass-but- The Black Atlantis by Ayesha Hameed, 8: We’re All Nigerian!, 2005 6-passports) PASS at The Chimurenga Library at Kojo Laing with Nikhil Singh & Kojo Yemisi Ogbe, Birthing the American, the Amiri Baraka, Four Cats on Repatriationology, The The Showroom, London 2015 (https:// Binyavanga Wainaina, Laing, Major Gentl and Chronic, December 2013 LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader, 1991 www.mixcloud.com/chimurenga/the- Search Sweet Country, the Achimota Wars, the black-atlantis-ayesha-hameed/) Chronic, April 2013 Chronic, August 2016 Let’s not forget that we didn’t create our countries. One day, as an exercise, my teacher made me Cameroon is a Western invention: its territory, its laws, Lena Bergendahl, Jennifer Rainsford and point out to the rest of the class where I was from. its cities – Yaoundé and Douala – all of it. Even its Rut Karin Zettergren, Applied Theories Except of course on the classroom map, as on AFTER OIL name. White people named it after the Portuguese of Expanding Minds, PMS Reader most maps, where I am from does not exist. Being word for shrimp (camaroes), and we’re proud of that (http://powermoneysex.org.za/applied- Kurdish, as a consequence of treaties held in small WATER name. How can we hope to make it when we live in a theories-of-expanding-minds/) picturesque European towns after the First World colonial shell, empty of all content, because those who War, I belong nowhere. Muzmin, Arabic edition of the Chronic, made that content – our very state – have jumped ship? REPATS July 2015 Alternatives - We Need Agri Ismaïl , The Power of Green Crayons, The NEOPATS New Tribes – PASS LIVE The Chronic German-language Edition, Jean-Pierre Bekolo, Let’s face it: we’re in over Chronic, New Cartographies, March 2015 at Freedom Park, Lagos October, 2016 our heads. We need the white folks to come https://www.mixcloud. Jon Soske struggles to pin down Hamid Parsani, back, the Chronic, April 2013 In southern Cameroon for instance, Chimurenga Vol. 14 Everyone Has Their most of the villages are now com/chimurenga/ Nation Is A Skin Stretched Over The Bones Of The Indian, April ’09 N’Gone Fall, The Adventures of electrified. And with electricity alternatives-we-need- State, The Chronic, August 2013 Dr Evil in Dakar, Chimurenga 16: new-tribes-live-at- Watch: Chimurenga Vol. 14: Everyone comes all what we were talking Handmade posters re-imagining the borders of Chimurenga Chronic, 2011. Has Their Indian, April ‘09 (https://www. about: television, internet access, freedom-park-lagos/ South Asia, Nation Is A Skin Stretched Over The youtube.com/watch?v=8A09u1ysK6I) mobile phones and so on. What Bones Of The State, The Chronic, August 2013 we will see is the densification of all Chimurenga Vol. 14: America Will Jon Soske, Dear Chimurenga- The India-Pakistan kinds of networks, both human and Always Blame Indians For The Death Division, the Chronic, March 2013 technological, which will reshape CHINAFRICA Of Cowboys (http://www.chimurenga. the entire African spatial map co.za/archives/858) Achille Mbembe, The Internet is The United Nation’s release of the agreement stipulating the Afropolitan, The Chronic, New “re-division” of India and Pakistan has shaken both countries. Yvonne A. 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There was also the affirmation of a sense of Niklas Zimmer, The Birth Of Blue Notes: solidarity. That’s the truth. I have always felt that A Speculative Map, Chimurenga 16: The what happened in Algiers, and among black Chimurenga Chronicle, October 2011 Northamericans had an impact on me. I thought African Cities Reader I: Pan- that I could not be indifferent to Haiti, to Africa. African Practices, April 2010 Truer than Biography: Aime Rebel Music and Black Arts: Hisham Aidi w/ Cesaire interviewed by Rene Abdi Latif Ega & Rashidah Ismaili Abubakr Depestre, Savacou no. 5, https://www.mixcloud.com/chimurenga/ Caribbean Arts Movement hisham-aidi-conversation Kingston, Jamaica, June, 1971 Kodwo Eshun, Continental Afrofutures Savacou, Caribbean Lecture One: Laingian Science Fiction, The Arts Movement Kingston, Showroom, London (https://www.mixcloud. Jamaica 1970, Chiimurenga EVERYONE com/The_Showroom/2016-02-27-the- Library Periodicals (http:// showroom-continental-afrofutures-lecture- chimurengalibrary.co.za/savacou) HAS THEIR one-laingian-science-fiction/) INDIAN Ugochukwu-Smooth Nzewi, A Pan African Circle of Artists, the Lyricism and Lagos: Jumoke Verrisimo with Chronic, March 2013 Edoato & Awoko – PASS, LIVE at Freedom View: Exitour as Rhizome, Park, Lagos (https://www.mixcloud.com/ “Overcoming Maps”, the Chronic chimurenga/lyricism-and-lagos-jumoke- August 2013 verrisimo-with-edoato-awoko-live-at- freedom-park-lagos/) Schedule of public events

WEEK 1 WEEK 2 WEEK 3 WEEK 4 WEEK 5 WEEK 6

SUN 02 09 16 23 30 St Louis 07 SUN Open Week Jazz Festival Regards sur cours, Gorée

MON 03 10 Public lecture: 17 Public lecture: 24 Public lecture: 01 Public lecture: 08 MON Open Week Jean-Pierre Bekolo Yemisi Aribisala Phillipe Rekacewicz Victor Gama

TUE 04 11 18 25 02 09 TUE Open Week

WED 05 12 Public lecture: 19 Public lecture: 26/04Public lecture: 03 Public lecture: 10 WED Open Week Jihan El Tahri Laila Soliman Kodwo Eshun Neo Muyanga

THU 06 13 20 27 04 11 THU Open Week

FRI 07 14 21 28 St Louis 05 Public lecture: 12 FRI Open Week Jazz Festival Ibrahima Fall Regards sur cours, Gorée

SAT 08 15 22 29 St Louis 06 13 SAT Open Week Jazz Festival Regards sur cours, Gorée

Daily Academy Programme Mon-Fri: 10am–12:30pm| Editorial Meeting 3–4pm | Library 4–5:30pm | PASS Mon-Sat: Daily programme: 6pm–late | Shebeen Schedule of public events

WEEK 7 WEEK 8

SUN 14 21

MON 15 22 Public lecture: Public lecture: Dominique Felwine Sarr Malaquais

TUE 16 23

WED 17 24 Public lecture: Public lecture: Clapperton Lionel Manga Mavungha

THU 18 Felwine Sarr at 25 Kaay Fecc International Dance Festival

FRI 19 Felwine Sarr at 26 Geopolitics Conference, Cheikh Anta Diop University

SAT 20 27

Daily Academy Programme Mon-Fri: 10am–12:30pm| Editorial Meeting 3–4pm | Library 4–5:30pm | PASS Mon-Sat: Daily programme: 6pm–late | Shebeen