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LA BIBLIOTHEQUE MUDIMBE – DAY 1 WEDNESDAY 21 OCTOBER 2026
Pan Africanism at UNAZA, Lubumbashi
Today we engage with the intellectuals of Pan Africanism at UNAZA, the National University of Zaire in the 1970’s. After the 1969 Lovanium massacre, the entire university system, in what we know now as Democratic Republic of Congo, was reformed. The three major tertiary institutions became one, UNAZA. The entire social science and arts faculties shifted to Lubumbashi, along with the philosophers, historians and theorists of the time, including V.Y Mudimbe, Cheikh Anta Diop and many others.
13:00 – 14:00 Mudimbe the writer by Kadima-Nzuji, archival interview from 1979
14:00 – 15:00 What we are calling Copperbelt Music, tracing the ideas and sensibilities vehiculated through music along the extractivist corridor between Lubumbashi, Kitwe, Lusaka, Bulawayo to Johannesburg with Jackie Kabedi, the Karindula musicians, and Feza Kayungu
15:00 – 17:00 Thinking through the writings and ideas of Pan Africanism at UNAZA, in conversation with scholar Kalênge Yamukêna Yantûmbi, the Prisme Collective and guests
17:00 – 18:00 warm down DJ Spilulu
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LA BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE MUDIMBE
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THEO PARRISH LIVE AT CHIMURENGA FACTORY, CAPE TOWN
We are proud to welcome back to Cape Town, the legendary Theo Parrish, pioneering DJ and producer, and founder of the Sound Signature label. For his first appearance in Cape Town since 2010, Theo Parrish will perform a typical marathon-DJ set in an ALL-NIGHT event organised by Chimurenga in collaboration with Vinyl Digz and Sho-Sho Comunications. Theo Parrish’s biography forges an allegiance between two of the great American house dynasties. He was raised in Chicago but settled in Detroit. So …
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IMPILISO – Odwa Bongo LIVE at Chimurenga Factory (EP Launch)
Chimurenga is proud to present IMPILISO – Odwa Bongo LIVE in concert at Chimurenga Factory on Saturday 26 September 2026 for the launch of their long awaited EP. Vocalist and uHadi instrumentalist Odwa Bongo will be joined by Lonwabo Diba Mafani (keyboard), Keketso Bolofo (percussion), Siyolise Nyondo-Holliman (double bass), & Lerato Skhosana (guitar) for the debut performance of Odwa’s latest music project IMPILISO. IMPILISO: Icandelo lokuqala reveals another dimension of Odwa’s artistry, one that has always existed but remained less …
MARIO BY BILLY WOODBERRY
We’re proud to present a rare Cape Town screening of MARIO, Billy Woodberry’s long-awaited film on the Angolan-born, Pan Africanist thinker and revolutionary Mario Pinto de Andrade. Along with Amilcar Cabral, Agostinho Neto and Marcelino dos Santos, Mario de Andrade was part of the pioneering quartet of poet-scholars who founded the Centro de Estudos Africanos (CEA) in Lisbon and planted seeds for nationalist struggle in Portuguese colonies across the continent – respectively, they co-founded PAIGC, MPLA and Frelimo. An early …
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MY COUNTRY, TONIGHT 30TH JUNE 2026
We present ‘My Country, Tonight’ a radio broadcast of responses from writers and artists to the 30 June deadline set by xenophobic groups for undocumented migrants to leave South Africa. We invited friends and comrades, poets and writers, South Africans, to sit with us on 30th June 2026 and share thoughts, feelings, queries, readings, on the national democratic revolution and its limits. The session was moderated by Bongani Kona, and broadcast live from the Chimurenga Factory. Thanks to contributors and BK …
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LISTEN: SONGS FOR WINNIE BY A SEMBLANCE
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Tags: A Semblance, Asher Gamedze, winnie madikizela-mandela
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THE CARETAKER
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Tags: Ilze Wolff, Keegan Steenkamp, Malik Edjabe, Masello Montana
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