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LISTEN: THE IDEA OF A BORDERLESS WORLD BY ACHILLE MBEMBE
CHIMURENGA LIBRARY
The capacity to decide who can move, who can settle, where and under what conditions is increasingly becoming the core of political struggles over sovereignty, nationalism, citizenship, security and freedom. With western colonial expansion, and more decisively with the advent of capitalism, the raison d’être of the border attends to key questions such as: to whom does the earth belong? Who can lay what type of claims to what part of it and to the various beings who inhabit them? Who determines its distribution or partition?
In this week’s Wednesday evening broadcast we listen to Achille Mbembe’s Tanner Lecture on Human Values presented at Yale University in March 2018 and re-produced in Circulations and the African Imagination of a Borderless World. Achille Mbembe argues that the power of the border lies in its capacity to regulate the multiple distributions of populations on the body of the earth, and in so doing, to affect the vital forces of all kinds of beings.
Wednesday, 06 May 2026 from 7pm
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LISTEN: “MORE MORE MORE… FUTURE” BY FAUSTIN LINYEKULA AND STUDIO KABAKO
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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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