African Voices is a weekly show that highlights Africa’s most engaging personalities, exploring the lives and passions of people who rarely open themselves up to the camera. Bringing together an army ...

It is an irony that the ­literary journal, Chimurenga, and its younger sibling, the Chimurenga Chronic, are produced in Cape Town. Indeed, that was the first question its founder, Ntone Edjabe, the ...

For the past decade, Cape Town based pan-African art, cultural, literature and political journal Chimurenga Magazine has provided an innovative platform for exchange of free ideas and political ...

The term chimurenga comes from the name of a legendary Shona ancestor, Murenga Sororenzou. Believed to be huge man with a head (soro) the size of an elephant's (renzou), Murenga was well known for his ...

Chimurenga Renaissance is the duo of Shabazz Palaces' Tendai "Baba" Maraire and Seattle-based guitarist Hussein Kalonji, both sons of big names in diasporic African music. Maraire's father, Abraham ...

In all the focus the Western world has placed on the individual, it has lost sight of the family—both immediate and extended versions, encompassing the members of a shared culture. In part that's due ...

CHIMURENGA music still has a place on the local music scene and will not fade, one of Thomas Mapfumo’s former runners, Jairos Chabvonga has said. Speaking to NewsDay during the Independence Day ...