Chimurenga
Publishers in Cape Town

Chimurenga, a pan African publication of writing, art and politics has been in print since March 2002.

Range of independent and collaborative projects produced to express the intensities of our world, to capture those forces and to take action. Subscription rates include postage and air-sped delivery. All back issues of Chimurenga publications (still in print) are also available directly from our online store. His letters from prison to the writer Norman Mailer are collected under the title In the belly of the beast. Ackermann, Kurt A travel writer based in Cape Town, Ackermann is a regular contributor to Mind Shift magazine. Following the Super Eagles’ World Cup campaign in Brazil. His writing on film, books and pop music appear in the Africa Report, the Guardian UK and Music in Africa. His current work focuses on four major African megalopolises: Cairo, Lagos, Kinshasa, Johannesburg. He is also the co-founder of the Paris-based Fremok, one of Europe’s leading publishers of art comics. He is one of the few (millions) who celebrated Italy’s win at the 2006 World Cup. Amisi, Serge Amisi was forcibly recruited as child soldier in 1997, at the age of Anderson, Ho Che Named after the Vietnamese and Cuban revolutionaries Ho Chi Minh and Che Guevara, Anderson is a jack of all trades, having worked as a commercial illustrator, writer of fiction, radio producer, and newspaper reporter. And like many before him, he has designs on going to Hollywood and becoming a waiter before making it big in the movies. As an artist, he began his journey in 1953 and continued to pursue art while studying civil engineering in Karachi. After doing some important works in Karachi, seminal to his later pursuits, he left for London in 1964 and has lived there since. He is now directing a project that will revise and produce the most comprehensive and inclusive history of art in postwar Britain. Aragao, Gabriela Carrilho Aragao is an architect with an interest in spaces of collective memory, the visual arts and architecture’s potential to heal and disrupt, amongst others. Currently studies animation and designs for Chimurenga. Ariefdien, Shaheen Ariefdien is a former member of the pioneering South African hip-hop group Prophets of Da City, whose acclaimed opus, The Age of Truth, was banned by the apartheid government. His most recent book is Ktm: In the house of Life. The Museum of Ordinary Life, her short collection of poems and creative non-fiction, was also published in Bakare-Yusuf, Bibi Bakare-Yusuf is a researcher and co-founder of Cassava Republic Press, a publishing company based in Abuja. He is regarded as the Father of the Black Arts Movement. He has exhibited at Atmosphere Gallery and Cinque Gallery in SoHo.