Live Events
L’ALMAMY SAMORY TOURE – ACT II, DAKAR – 10 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
Wednesday December 10
5 p.m. | Award-winning filmmaker and founder of Rencontres Cinématographiques of Dakar, William Ousmane Mbaye with long-time journalist and writer Pape Samba Kane discuss the un-realisibility of two historical films not made, Kattan and Talatay Nder, with film critic and renowned journalist Aboubacar Demba Cissokho.
7 p.m. | A listening session inspired by Abdoulaye Sadji’s essay “Ce que dit la musique africaine” — with Professor of African Literature and Civilizations, Ibrahima Wane, Felwine Sarr —philosopher, economist, composer, and Chimurenga’s Ntone Edjabe.
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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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Tags: Asher Gamedze, winnie madikizela-mandela
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WATER NO GET ENEMY – a day-long broadcast on PASS
In honour of the almighty water we presented 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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Launching The Breathers – THE LATEST IN THE CHIMURENGANYANA SERIES
The launch of the latest addition to the Chimurenganyana series, The Breathers, a collaborative long poem by Daniel Borzutzky and Stacy Hardy. The Breathers is an attempt to experiment with ways to document both the suppression of breath caused by capitalism, and the liberation of breath, or, the mere act of breathing as a form of political resistance to those forces that confront our bodies with what cannot be said, what cannot be seen, and what cannot be done. Bongani Kona …
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Tags: Bongani Kona, Daniel Borzutzky, Fred Schmalz, Stacy Hardy, The Breathers
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Heliacal Rising of Sothis – a celebration of Kelan Phil Cohran
Chimurenga proudly presents “Heliacal Rising of Sothis“, a celebration of the late great musician and educator Kelan Phil Cohran on his birthday 8 May 2024, also the 59th anniversary of the founding of AACM (Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians). Cohran was a co-founder of AACM as well as the founder of the Afro Arts Theatre. His seminal group the Artistic Heritage Ensemble generated numerous recordings and offshoots, including groups such as Earth, Wind and Fire and The Pharaohs. …
BHEKI KHOZA TRIO
We are pleased to host veteran guitarist, composer and mbaqanga jazz revivalist Bheki Khoza at the Chimurenga Factory. Bheki is a graduate of the legendary collective African Jazz Pioneers and has played with masters like Victor Ntoni, Winston Mankunku, Barney Rachabane, and more. He also wrote the music for Zola Maseko’s award winning film Drum (2004). For this session, he is accompanied by Allistair Gibbs (bass) and Nicholas Dlakavu (drums). Friday, 26 April 2024, 7pm Chimurenga Factory – 157 …