Wikipedia:WikiAfrica /Chimurenga Library
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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) and through a WikiAfrica presentation and the number 14 of Chimurenga magazine.
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[edit] 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 wich 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.
[edit] 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.
- writersIvan 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
[edit] 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 to be started...Be part of their creation!
- Staffrider and Y-Mag, Johannesburg, South Africa
- Hei! Voetsek!, Cape Town, South Africa
- Frank Talk, Durban, South Africa
- Moto 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, Nairobi, Kenya
- Ecrans d'Afrique, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
- Mfumu’eto, Kinshasa, DRC
- Autre Afrique and Revue Noire,Paris, France
- Third Text, London, UK
- Greg Tate – mixed texts– New York, USA
- Savacou, Kingston, Jamaica
- Civil Lines NewDelhi, India
[edit] 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/
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)
