Chimurenga

Introducing Stories About Music in Africa - Vol. I, a limited edition handmade box set featuring four publications from our Chimurenganyana series. Available in four unique designs.



Included in this edition is:



- The Making of Mannenberg by John Edwin Mason

- A Silent Way: Routes of South African Jazz, 1946-1978 by Julian Jonker

- 52 Niggers by Stacy Hardy

- Thinking of Brenda by Njabulo Ndebele

The Breathers is an attempt to experiment with ways to document both the suppression of breath caused by capitalism, and the liberation of breath, or, the mere act of breathing as a form of political resistance to those forces that confront our bodies with what cannot be said, what cannot be seen, and what cannot be done.



A necessarily collaborative project, where authored voices exist in chorus with other poets – from Africa and the Americas - who have given voice to how breath has and continues to be suppressed and exploited, while opening up potentialities and promises for liberation that might emerge from our differentiated yet collective breathing.

In the 1990s, Yvonne Vera wrote garden letters to friends, lovers, and readers of Bulawayo’s Chronicle newspaper. They were literary meditations, writings that questioned if the myth of the garden could be hijacked from its colonial origins and used to restore a sacred relationship with nature for Black people. In this monograph, Tadiwa Madenga travels to Bulawayo to retrace Yvonne Vera’s life and works through her letters, columns, novels, gallery curations, and her former homes. It is a story written for those who love gardens and those who seek to trespass them.