Wikipedia:WikiAfrica/Chimurenga Library

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Chimurenga magazine cover

Chimurenga Library studies and gives value to cultural and political panafrican revues.

the project concerns:

• a research about cultural and countercultural and political panafrican magazines.
• creation of video selfportraits about selected reviews.
• unseen documentation filing gathered on Chimurenga Library web site.
• contents and arguments of Chimurenga Library is featured at the Cape Town book fair, June 14-17, 2008 (stand F11), WikiAfrica presentation and the number 14 of Chimurenga magazine.
• Workshops in collaboration with Chimurenga magazine at the Six District Central Library in Cape Town and participation at the second edition of CAPE Not Another Biennale, June 2009.

Calendar

From the library to the Biennale, new voices for Wikipedia: Chimurenga Library Workshops take place in June 2009 at the Six District central library, Drill Hall, Darling St, located in the melting pot historical neighbourhood of Cape Town, that was emptied out and burned to the ground by the apartheid regime. During the event, the library is animated by magazines, books, videos, music, audios, performances and Wikipedia, to narrate the connections and the interferences that hide between the bookshelves. The evocative title finding oneself invites people to a full immersion in the stories told by writers, readers and fans and invites them to write new ones on Wikipedia, the well known free on-line encyclopedia, passing from (non) arbitrariness of knowledge to sense of humour.

Monday, June 15. 09, Wednesday, June 17.09, Thursday, June 18.09 and Friday, June 19.09, at 12:30 pm, in collaboration with Chimurenga and the Cape Africa Platform; the aim is to focus on themes such as participatory writing and content sharing. Evening events and exhibitions are promoted in the library itself and supported by sound effects available on Chimurenga Library and on Pass-Pan African Space Station.

Chimurenga Library participates to the second edition of CAPE Not Another Biennale, presenting cultural and political magazines that influenced ideas and writing in Africa, with new inputs and entire magazines that can be downloaded directly from the website. CAPE Not Another Biennale take place in Cape Town from May 2nd until June 21st 2009. It is organized by Cape Africa Platform, as a flagship event for the city of Cape Town, a platform for art of the continent and the diaspora.

What is it?

Chimurenga Library is an online library that gathers a selection of historical and contemporary panafrican magazines. This archive project, recently conceived by the South African Chimurenga magazine, will be presented in a specially designed Wiki-type website in which every body is welcome to participate and to contribuite to create contents and enrich articles in every language and to spread the initiative, especially those who are connected in these subjects like researchers, writers, philosophers, artists professors and students. Each publication will be described through essential biography and meta-works –texts, essays and video – produced by artists and writers who may have contributed to these publications or might have been influenced by them.

Who's in the project?

For many of them the insertion work in Wikipedia is still in progress...take part of the progress!

• the south African magazine Chimurenga magazine mastermind of the Chimurenga Library project.
• writers Ivan Vladislavic
• Akin Adesokan
• Sam Kahiga
• Neville Alexander
• critics Olu Oguibe
• Barbara Murray
• poets Lesego Rampolokeng
• Patrice Nganang
• Vivek Narayanan
• singer-poet Anthony Joseph
• filmmakers Dumisane Phakati
• Judy Kibinge
• Bakupa-Kanyinda
• Priya Sen
• artist Kudzanai Chiurai

Publications

The following reviews have been selected to be part of the archive project. For most of them the research and insertion work on Wikipedia is in progress...Be part of their creation!

• Staffrider and Y-Mag, Johannesburg, South Africa
• Hei! Voetsek!, Cape Town, South Africa
• Frank Talk, Durban, South Africa
• Moto (magazine) and Tstotso, Harare, Zimbabwe
• Glendora Review and Chief Priest Say, editorial of Fela Kuti, Lagos, Nigeria
• Lamalif and Souffles, Rabat, Morocco
• Okyeame, Accra, Ghana
• Joe (magazine), Nairobi, Kenya
• Ecrans d'Afrique, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
• Mfumu’eto, Kinshasa, DRC
• Hambone (magazine) California, USA
• The Cricket- Black Music in Evolution Harlem, USA
• Autre Afrique and Revue Noire,Paris, France
• Third Text, London, UK
• The uncollected writings of Greg Tate – New York, USA
• Savacou, Kingston, Jamaica
• Civil Lines, NewDelhi, India
• Straight_No_Chaser_(magazine) London, UK
• Unir Cinema: Revue du Cinema Africain, Senegal

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• Two Tone (magazine), Zimbabwe

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• The Book of Tounges (Rustum Kozain), South Africa

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• African Film (magazine), Lagos, Nigeria

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• Black Images: A Critical Quarterly of Black Arts and Culture (magazine), Toronto, Canada

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• Wietie,Cape Town, South Africa

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• Molotov Cocktail(magazine), South Africa

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Videos

The library gathers some videos commissioned by Chimurenga magazine and realized by artist.

• a video response to Staffrider by Khulile Nxumalo in collaboration with Tracey Rose.
• La grammaire de ma grand-mère/my grandma's grammar, a response to Ecrans d'Afrique by Jean-Pierre Bekolo.
• Y Mag by Aryan Kaganof
• Something Barely Remembered a filmic response to Civil Lines by Prya Sen.

External Links

• http://www.chimurengalibrary.co.za
• http://www.yfm.co.za/pebble.asp
• http://www.seattleu.edu/souffles/
• http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revue_Noire
• http://www.africine.org/?menu=ecransafrique
• http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Text
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Vladislavic
• http://www.nigeriansinamerica.com/authors/8/Akin-Adesokan
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olu_Oguibe
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesego_Rampolokeng
• http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=2430
• http://www.anthonyjoseph.co.uk/
• http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5873
• http://www.nthposition.com/author.php?authid=149
• http://people.africadatabase.org/en/person/16145.html
• http://www.obertcontemporary.com/artist_bio.aspx?ar=5
• http://www.biennaledakar.org/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=374&lang=en
• http://www.capetownbookfair.com/

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Chimurenga Library is a project promoted by the South African Chimurenga magazine and supported by Fondation lettera27 Onlus inside the widest programme of WikiAfrica initiatives (October 2007-December 2008)