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 Ndiaye
5.30 p.m. | On the work and life of Alpha Waly Diallo – Massamba Mbaye with Babacar Mbaye Diop
6:30 p.m. | African cinema and the archive of the unfinished – Eva Munyiri and Annabelle Aventurin with Ntone Edjabe.
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 …
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 …
L’ALMAMY SAMORY TOURE – ACT II, DAKAR – 10 DECEMBER 2025
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 …
BAFO & XABA – Madala Kunene and Sibusile Xaba – LIVE at Chimurenga Factory – Fri 14 Nov 2025

Chimurenga proudly presented BAFO & XABA – Madala Kunene and Sibusile Xaba LIVE in concert at Chimurenga Factory on Friday 14 November 2025 for the launch of their long awaited debut album KwaNTU. Sibusile Xaba has been mentored by Madala ‘Bafo Kunene’ for the past decade, and kwaNTU (co-released by Mushroom Hour Half Hour & New Soil) sees the teacher/student duo converging within the inimitable space of sound and spirit that they share through Kunene’s teaching. The album was recorded in Zululand in the town of Utrecht, …
ETUK UBONG – LIVE at Jam House (Birmingham, UK) – Tue 7 October 2025

Tune into PASS on Tuesday 7 Oct 2025 at 7pm (UK) / 8pm (SAST) for a special broadcast, in collaboration with brother Leroy Jones-Hemmings and his Creative Exchange Collective (CEC), by Nigerian trumpeter, composer and bandleader Etuk Ubong – performing LIVE at Jam House (Birmingham, UK) Known for his unique fusion of Afrobeat, highlife, jazz, and the ritualistic drumming of Ekombi, Etuk Ubong’s original style, “Earth Music”, infuses compositions that are both politically charged and deeply rooted in his cultural …
Chimurenga presents: REZA KHOTA QUARTET: RESILIENCE TOUR – Friday 12 Sept 2025

Chimurenga is proud to present Reza Khota Quartet: RESILIENCE TOUR – LIVE at Chimurenga Factory With Reza Khota (guitar), Shane Cooper (bass), Jonno Sweetman (drums) and Buddy Wells (saxophone). Friday 12 September 2025 from 7pm (SAST) R200 pre-sale (via Quicket) R250 at the door Join us at Chimurenga Factory (157 Victoria Rd, Woodstock) or tune in via Pan African Space Station – Centred on 18 years of musical collaboration between bandleader Reza Khota with Shane Cooper and Jonno Sweetman, and …
Chimurenga presents: NCESH NONXISHI (Apho Kungenje Tour) LIVE at Chimurenga Factory – Thurs 28 August

On a cold August evening, Johannesburg-based composer and singer-songwriter NCESH NONXISHI, on the occasion of her Apho Kungenje Tour, brought warmth and celebration to The Chimurenga Factory. The concert featured an unforgettable guest performance by the late Diana Ferris, who celebrated her 72nd birthday that evening and delivered her groundbreaking poem I’ve come to take you home, which was the catalyst for the repatriation of Sara Baartman’s remains in 2002. With players Nobuhle Ashanti (keyboard), Sam Ibeh (drums), Sibusiso Matsimela …
