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LA BIBLIOTHEQUE MUDIMBE –DAY 4: SATURDAY 24 OCTOBER
Les Choses et les Mots de Mudimbe
An annotated film screening of Jean-Pierre Bekolo’s film Les Choses et les Mots de Mudimbe
12: 00 – 13:00 warm up with the Chimurenga Collective
13:00 – 18:00 Screening of Les Choses et les Mots de Mudimbe in conversation with Kalênge Yamukêna Yantûmbi, Emmanuel M. Banywesize, Jacques Mukonga and Alexis Takizala Masoso
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LA BIBLIOTHEQUE MUDIMBE – DAY 3: FRIDAY 23 OCTOBER 2026
Les Corps glorieux des mots et des êtres In today’s session we look into the histories of words and bodies in Zaire and Congo. During Mobutu’s ‘Authenticité’, names of people, cities and landmarks were changed from the colonial to words of the local Congolese dialect, shifting the practice of vocabulary and identity. This shift was set in a terrain majorly influenced by Christianity and the monastic pedagogy complicating the forced recourse to tradition. 13:00 – 14:00 warm up with the …
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LA BIBLIOTHEQUE MUDIMBE – DAY 2: THURSDAY 22 OCTOBER 2026
Publishing Histories in Lubumbashi Today we engage with independent publishing in Lubumbashi and Zaire, looking into projects such as Editions du Mont Noir founded by V.Y Mudimbe and Georges Ngal at the Campus of Lubumbashi when it was part of UNAZA, and how it relates to current initiatives today. 13:00 – 14:00 warm up with the Chimurenga collective 14:00 – 15:00 Copperbelt Music with Sando Marteau with Feza Kayungu (discussion + performance) 15:00 – 16:00 Publishing histories: Maurice Amuri Mpala-Lutebele …
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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 …
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LA BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE MUDIMBE
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LISTEN: “MORE MORE MORE… FUTURE” BY FAUSTIN LINYEKULA AND STUDIO KABAKO
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Tags: Faustin Linyekula, Studio Kabako
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MSAFIRI KAFIRI – a conversation and listening Session on the roots and routes of Tanzanian hip hop with Seth Markle
1 August 2024 at the Chimurenga Factory, we hosted Pan African scholar and educator, Seth Markle. In session, Markle will takes us through the underground hip-hop scene of Tanzania, tracing the movement through a key selection of music, interviews and insights from his current project with on-the-ground artists-activists for whom hip-hop has long been a form of survival, expression, and cultural way of being.
Category: Liberation Radio, News, Pass Blog, Pass Radio
Tags: Bi Kidude, hip hop, James Wamba, Julius Nyerere, Juma Nature, KBC, Kikosi cha Mzinga, King Kiki, Kwanza Unit, Langa Kileo, Mejah Mbuya, Seif, Seth Markle, Sista Carrolla, Squeeza, taarab, Tanzania, Ujamaa, Wamaba dia Wamba, zeze
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Ubuhle Bendalo Community Arts Festival
We are proud to announce the 2nd edition of Ubuhle Bendalo,“the beauty of creation/nature”,an annual community arts festival organised by multi-disciplinary artist Breeze Yoko in collaboration with pan-African arts platform Chimurenga from 16 – 18 February 2024. Consisting of exhibitions, talks, workshops, performances and more, this year’s edition aims to bring our arts community together by providing a platform for engagement, collaboration and play. It features some of the country’s leading radical creators, including Mzwandile Buthelezi, Loyiso Mkhize, The Ninevites, …
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Tags: Breeze Yoko, Community Arts Festival, Ubuhle Bendalo
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A LIVE BROADCAST WITH DAMOLA OLOWADE
We’re delighted to host a listening with Lagos born, Pitori based rapper/producer Damola Owolade on PASS, Friday, 24 November from 7pm. Damola is one-half of the celebrated Pan Africanist prog-rap-folk duo Deep Dive Set, who harness the archaeological function of the hip-hop art form: excavating samples like fossils, fragments of forgotten history resurrected and immortalized by the very act of their discovery. The raw materials of Damola’s production come from sakara, apala, juju, fuji, highlife and other sounds in the …
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Tags: apala, Damola Olowade, fuji, highlife, juju, sakara
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LIVE ON PASS THIS WEEK
FIELD RECORDINGS Groundings with Shabaka Hutchings on the Mystic Revelation of Rastafari, Sons of Kemet, Ancestors and more. Wednesday, 22 February 2023 – from 6pm Tune in at panafricanspacestation.org.za In preparation for Grounation – a tribute to The Mystic Revelation of Rastafari on 24 Feb. Get your resale tickets via Quicket (qkt.io/EvMmff).
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Tags: Count Ossie & The Mystic Revelation, Shabaka Hutchings
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