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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.
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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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NGUGI WA THIONG’O – THE WRITER IN POST-COLONIAL AFRICA with an introduction by Ari Sitas
Following the popular success of “Matigari ma Njiruungi” the Kikuyu version of Ngugi wa Thiongo’s 6th novel in 1986, word got to then-President Daniel Arap Moi that a revolutionary called Matigari was going around the country asking awkward questions about truth and justice in postcolonial Kenya. Moi promptly demanded this person be arrested. After the infamous Security Branch reported that Matigari was a character in a novel, Moi demanded they arrest the book! At the time Ngugi was in exile …
FATIMA AND THE DUST – a listening session with Leila Bencharnia
Moroccan artist and composer Leila Bencharnia presents ‘Fatima and the Dust’, a new sound piece, and music selections at the Chimurenga Factory on Friday 6 June, from 6.30pm. ‘Fatima and the Dust’ delves into the spiritual world of Gnawa, rooted in Sufism and other African spiritualities, where music and rituals are pathways between the earthly and the divine. The piece is a tribute to the silent yet essential role of women—guardians of ancestral heritage, keepers of rituals, and weavers of …
FOREST NOTEBOOKS LAUNCH OF THE ECHO-LOGIES SERIES
We are proud to present Forest Notebooks by Mario Lewis, the first publication in the ‘Black Echologies’ series, an ongoing collaborative project between Chimurenga and Nyabinghi Lab, a Berlin based independent arts collective. The ‘Black Echologies’ series challenges mainstream ecological discourse—its coloniality and exclusion of indigenous knowledge. Forest Notebooks brings together a (mostly) unfiltered interpretation of Lewis’ year-long journey working in the forests of Trinidad through striking illustrations and elementary notes. Join us to celebrate the launch of the Black …
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SONGS FOR WINNIE – LAUNCH OF THE LATEST CHRONIC WITH A SEMBLANCE
Chimurenga presents the launch of the latest edition The Chronic – Brandfort: Liberation Capital with a special performance by A Semblance
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WATER NO GET ENEMY – a day-long broadcast on PASS
In honour of the almighty water we present a day-long broadcast on flows and unflows, tidalectics and water babies, cities and cemeteries, mosi-oa-tunya and motla le pula, drexciya, hendrixian merman and mami wata, ngondo and orin o’lomi, puddles, poem-maps and the rivers in our bellies, nkrumah’s and nehru’s big man dams, saline consciousness and the incessant fear of a wet planet. Contributors: Lamin Fofana, Christina Peake, Listening at Pungwe, Manthia Diawara, Ola Balogun, Otolith Group, Dikongue Pipa, Simnikiwe Buhlungu, Sorana …
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