LISTEN: L’ALMAMY SAMORI TOURE, AN UNMADE FILM BY OUSMANE SEMBENE
Every Wednesday evening we broadcast a piece from our sound library that relates to ongoing or previous research. This week we’re proud to present a rare cassette recording of a waxtaan (community dialogue in wolof) by the cultural association Pencum Tilleen, in Dakar’s working class neighbourhood of Medina, circa late 1970s – its members are also among the founders of the Senegalese Cultural Front, a group of Maoist thinkers and makers organising against the cultural policies of the-then regime of President-Poet Leopold Senghor.
Along with the circulation of revolutionary art, poetry and music, the Cultural Front produced history from below, highlighting the trajectories of anti-colonial figures such Lamine Senghor or Aline Sittoe Diatta, or historical events, such as the Thiaroye Massacre of 1944, that were obscured by the neocolonial state.
This recording is a telling-in-music of the infamous Thiaroye Massacre – narrated by Ousmane Faty Ndongo, one of the main organisers of the Cultural Front, accompanied by guitarist Charles Katy and members of Pencum Tilleen. With a brief introduction by the historian Fatoumata Seck, who kindly shared the recording with us.
Wednesday, 25 March 2026 from 7pm
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BLACK STUDY – a conversation and performance by Dead Symbols, A Semblance and Operation Khataza
We’re delighted to host a study session in collaboration with three of Cape Town’s leading experimental music units, Dead Symbols, A Semblance and Operation Khataza. The session is conceived as a collective site of listening, reading, and discussion. Drawing on the long tradition of study as a political and artistic practice within Black radical thought, the gathering asks how music can function not only as aesthetic production, but as a method of inquiry, refusal, and world-ending. Saturday, 14 March 2026Chimurenga …
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ANNUAL CHIMURENGA PARTY – Bubbles ALL NIGHT! – Fri 20 Feb 2026
Join us for the Annual Chimurenga ‘Ghetto Gala’, with music supplied all night by the heavy DJ Bubbles! Born and raised in Mamelodi, Pretoria, DJ Bubbles is a prominent figure in South African house music history. Active since the mid-2000s, he has produced projects such as Mayibuye and the iconic Flipside House Vol. 2. He is the founder of Urban Touch Recordings, launched in 2012, and continues to spread the gospel as one of the most grooviest DJs in the country. Friday, 20 February 2026 from …
L’ALMAMY SAMORY TOURE – ACT II, DAKAR – 13 DECEMBER 2025
Act II, L’Almamy Samori Touré – An Unmade Film by Ousmane Sembène, decomposed, disarranged and reproduced by Chimurenga, and hosted by RAW Material Company as part of the 14th edition of Partcours. The program today will run as follows Saturday December 13: on theatre, fashion and the arts in the production of history, the case of “l’École de Dakar” (The Dakar School) 3.30 p.m. | African history in theatre, cinema, and fashion — Lamine Seyba Traoré and Oumou SY with Madiaw …
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L’ALMAMY SAMORY TOURE – ACT II, DAKAR – 12 DECEMBER 2025
Act II, L’Almamy Samori Touré – An Unmade Film by Ousmane Sembène, decomposed, disarranged and reproduced by Chimurenga, and hosted by RAW Material Company as part of the 14th edition of Partcours. The program today will run as follows Friday December 12: The Guinean cultural socialist revolution and its discontents; African history as a problem 3.30 p.m. | On African historiography – Professor of Ancient History, Babacar Buuba Diop joins Ibrahima Wane, Professor of African Literature and Civilizations to discuss the …
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L’ALMAMY SAMORY TOURE – ACT II, DAKAR – 11 DECEMBER 2025
Act II, L’Almamy Samori Touré – An Unmade Film by Ousmane Sembène, decomposed, disarranged and reproduced by Chimurenga, and hosted by RAW Material Company as part of the 14th edition of Partcours. The program today will run as follows Thursday December 11: 5 p.m. | On his journey alongside Sembène, the preservation of his work and memory – Clarence Delgado who worked with Sembène at his production company, Filmi Doomireew, for 25 years on many projects including Camp de Thiaroye …
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L’ALMAMY SAMORY TOURE – ACT II, DAKAR – 10 DECEMBER 2025
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POEMS AGAINST GENOCIDE – LIVE at Chimurenga Factory – Fri 7 Nov 2025 @7pm
Chimurenga, The Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Collective, New Contrast and Botsotso are honoured to present ‘Poems Against Genocide’, an evening of poetic performance bringing together beloved and venerated voices in solidarity with the struggle against war in Palestine Friday, 7 November 2025, from 7pmChimurenga Factory – 157 Victoria Rd, Woodstockor tune in live via the panafricanspacestation The Germans genocided the Hereros and the JewsThe Turks the ArmeniansThe Boers the iXiamThe Hutus the TutsisAnd right now the Israelis are genociding Palestinians The evening’s contributors …
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