Podcast appearances and mentions of Panashe Chigumadzi

SNAP is the joint project space that brings Metro54, media platform Dipsaus Podcast and theatre collective and production house THEATERDEGASTEN in Amsterdam together. SNAP is a project space for art, dialogue, experiment, performance, reflection and intergenerational encounters.On the 3rd of February, we held our first live show with guests Panashe Chigumadzi & Nyancho NwaNri, we focus on forms of Black solidarity, diasporic feelings and responsibilities and how music and oral stories ground our thinking around this contemporary moment.Panashe Chigumadzi is an award-winning writer, scholar, and cultural historian writing across gender, geography and generation in her exploration of themes ranging from race, religion and spirituality, to African Philosophy and Cosmology, Black Consciousness, Black Feminism, Black Internationalism and Pan-Africanism. Nyancho NwaNri is a lens-based artist out of Lagos, Nigeria whose work revolves around African history, culture, languages, spirituality and social issues.This live show was possible with the generosity and collaboration of Bar Bario, the black owned queer space in Amsterdam. SNAP presents a series of conversations around music, art, biographies and Black imagination. SNAP TALKS are fuelled by collective memories of culture-making: coming together to live, love, care and survive. With contributions by storytellers, hustlers, artists, activists, and thinkers who meet each other in a polyphonic (over)standing of dreams, historical colonial trauma and slavery legacies, street culture, humour, and everyday stories.Zie het privacybeleid op https://art19.com/privacy en de privacyverklaring van Californië op https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Författaren Ester Roxberg reser tillbaka till sitt födelseland Zimbabwe och gräver i en historia som ständigt är i rörelse. ESSÄ: Detta är en text där skribenten reflekterar över ett ämne eller ett verk. Åsikter som uttrycks är skribentens egna.Det doftar bränd ved och varm sand i solen utanför flygplatsen i Harare. Där väntar min chaufför. Han kör tetris genom stan till hotellet, genom korsningar utan trafikljus på grund av ständiga elavbrott, förbi de kilometerlånga bensinköerna och jakarandaträdens lila blommor. Går det att färdas tillbaka i historien? Hit till Zimbabwe flyttade mina föräldrar på 1980-talet för att biståndsarbeta och under dessa år föddes jag. Många gånger har jag hört om min födelse på landsbygden, om hur alla i byn kom och dansade runt med mig och kallade mig för Chiedza, vilket betyder ljus på shona. Pappa frågade, hur kommer det sig att ni visar vårt barn så mycket glädje? "Ert barn?" svarade en man, "Chiedza är vårt barn. Om dagarna togs jag sedan omhand av en kvinna från byn, Batsi, som lärde mig shona. Nu är jag här för första gången som vuxen men jag har inte glömt dem som höll mig under de åren. Zimbabweförfattaren Panashe Chigumadzi skriver i sin essäbok These Bones Will Rise Again om drömmarna som blir kvar i fotografierna av våra förfäder. Jag tänker på fotografiet av Batsi som alltid stått på mitt skrivbord. Vad drömde hon om? Vi är dem vi är genom de som har kommit före oss och de som kommer efter oss, skriver Chigumadzi. Det kan låta som en banal utsaga, men här är det en kraftfull sanning. När Zimbabwes historia ska summeras börjar man ofta med befrielsekriget från de brittiska kolonisatörerna och självständigheten 1980, president Robert Mugabe, befriaren som skulle pekats ut som ansvarig för folkmord och som steg för steg förvandlades till en alltmer maktfullkomlig diktator. 2017 tvingades han avgå, men inflationen och det politiska förtrycket upphörde inte. För nationalistiska agendor passar det att beskriva historien som något fast i tiden, med våldsamma kamper och motståndshandlingar som definierande ögonblick. Det är överblickbart, kontrollerbart. Men historien är föränderlig, den lever sin eget liv. Det gäller både för individer och geografiska platser. Chigumadzi liknar historien vid ett vattendrag och för fram de berättelser som format Zimbabwe men som har skrivits ut ur historien. Jag besöker Nationalgalleriet i Harare, som ställer ut den zimbabwiska konstnären Virginia Chihota. Jag fastnar vid en målning av ett svart skelett i en vit spetskjol. Skelettet håller en färglös blomma i handen och befinner sig i ett rött hålrum med formen av en kista. Målningen har titeln: Vems barn är jag? Frågan stannar kvar i mig medan vi kör genom kåkstäderna och jag ser på allt liv därute. Ett barn säljer majs i en rondell med sina föräldrar. Ett annat barn springer barfota och rullar bildäck i sanden. Jag ser mig själv. Jag förstår att det kan vara provocerande. Mellan oss finns inte bara en bilruta, utan en oöverstiglig skillnad i privilegium. I den raka linjens historieskrivning har jag fötts här, levt mitt liv i det trygga landet i norr och gör nu en rundresa i minnenas allé för att jag har råd och kan. Men det finns en annan berättelse, där jag alltid varit här i röklukten och ljuden av liv. Jag var den stora gemenskapens och kollektivets barn. Och jag är det fortfarande. Nästa dag åker vi de många timmarna ner till den by där jag föddes. Vi kör bland acacia- och baobabträd, babianer, väggropar och häftiga skyfall som tvingar oss att stanna vid vägrenen. Lokalbussarna kör omkörningstävlingar. Chigumadzi menar att zimbabwiernas sätt att köra har förändrats sedan 1990-talet. Den är ett uttryck för folkets ilska och frustration. Längs vägarna följer vi de vitklädda folksamlingarna under träden. En ultrakonservativ sekt som befinner sig utanför samhället och förlitar sig på andar och förfäder. En extrem gruppering som sagt, men tron på förfädernas betydelse är den starka kärnan i Zimbabwes kultur. De muntliga historier som lever vidare från generation till generation. Koloniseringen ville skingra och ersätta dessa traditioner och religioner, men de mest framstående kyrkorna i Zimbabwe idag har startats av zimbabwier som kombinerar kristen och traditionell tro. En väg till överlevnad för ett folk som länge stått under kolonialt förtryck. Zimbabwes historia börjar som sagt inte med britternas intåg. Innan dess hade landet befolkats av bantufolken Shona och Ndebele i nästan 2 000 år. En av alla de mäktiga kvinnor som historien tystat ner är Mbuya Nehanda, ett andligt medium som inte bara ledde Chimurenga, det första befrielsekriget i Zimbabwe, utan också banade väg för det andra stora befrielsekriget mot de brittiska kolonisatörerna. Panashe Chigumadzi menar att förfädernas starka roll i Zimbabwe är den intergenerationella andan av afrikansk självbefrielse. Historien är inte linjär, det är ben som går ner i jorden och stiger igen och igen.När vi når fram till byn tar jag av mig mina sandaler och går barfota ut i den röda sanden. Allt finns kvar. Huset där min familj och jag en gång bodde, mangoträden och den överbyggda verandan, kyrkan uppe på kullen. Sången från gudstjänsten hörs långt ut i landskapet och när jag öppnar kyrkdörren uppfyller den hela mig, som om jag helt tappar tyngd och jag gråter som om jag aldrig gråtit förut.Efteråt samlas vi för att dansa och sjunga. Och plötsligt är hon där, Batsi. Hon kramar om mig hårt och skrattar högt, Wakadzoka! säger hon, du kom tillbaka.   Batsi visar mig runt i vårt gamla hus. Jag kan höra min familjs röster från verandan där pappa grillade majskolvar och vi såg mot horisonten om kvällarna. Historien är sin egen och sanningen om oss kan vidgas och förändras i det evinnerliga.Kobjällrorna ljuder bakom våra röster medan vi promenerar runt i byn. Och jag frågar Batsi om vem hon var som ung, vad hon drömde om. Men hon vill inte byta roller, hon är den som tar hand om och bryr sig om mig. Hon svarar:  Jag drömde att du skulle bli afrikansk kvinna som jag.  Vad innebär det? frågar jag.  Att arbeta hårt, säger hon, jag lärde dig att laga mat, tvätta, städa och att ta hand om dig själv så att du alltid skulle klara dig själv.Vi måste köra igen innan mörkret faller och jag ser Batsi försvinna bakom mig på den dammiga sandvägen. Jag är för all tid omgiven av händer som tog emot mig. Jag är full av hennes liv. Batsi fortsätter att gå ut och arbeta på majsfälten varje dag. Hon sms:ar från sin gamla Nokiatelefon att hon hoppas resan hem har gått bra. Vems barn är jag? Ndiri Chiedza. Jag är Chiedza. Barn till en gemenskap som rör sig över alla tider och generationer. Också till dem vars ben går ner i jorden och stiger igen och igen.Ester Roxberg, författare

For the Spiracle Podcast, Curator Leigh Wilson talks with Panashe Chigumadzi, author of the Spiracle edition for June, These Bones Will Rise Again. They talk about issues of colonialism, language and national and personal identity in Chigumadzi's essay on the uprising of the Zimbabwean people against Robert Mugabe.

Chipo Kureya, reader of Spiracle edition, These Bones Will Rise Again by Panashe Chigumadzi, reflects on her experience of reading the book. Where is home, Chipo asks, when you have lived your whole life in the diasporic limbo? "What Panashe has managed to capture is this feeling of belonging and not belonging."

This time Panashe Chigumadzi is in conversation with Ghanaian-born, Senegal-based writer Ayesha Harruna Attah. She is the author of the novels "The Harmattan Rain", "Saturday's Shadows", "The Hundred Wells of Salaga", "The Deep Blue Between" and "Zainab Takes New York". In her work she explores filling the gaps that historiography has left with Black women's histories through fiction.

Alex replays Chuck's Oct 2021 conversation with writer Panashe Chigumadzi on her article "The Cry of Black Worldlessness" for Africa Is A Country. https://africasacountry.com/2021/10/the-cry-of-black-worldlessness

In this bonus episode, hear Ufahamu Africa host Kim Yi Dionne read Laura Seay's review of Female Monarchs and Merchant Queens in Africa, a book by Nwando Achebe. The review was published in last year's African Politics Summer Reading Spectacular (#APSRS20), and this recording is being shared as part of a collaboration with The Monkey Cage, a blog on politics and political science at The Washington Post.Books, Links, & Articles"Nwando Achebe's New Book Is a Fascinating Look at Africa's Queens, Past and Present" by Laura SeayFemale Monarchs and Merchant Queens in Africa by Nwando AchebeTransient Workspaces: Technologies of Everyday Innovation in Zimbabwe by Clapperton Chakanetsa MavhungaThese Bones Will Rise Again by Panashe Chigumadzi

This time Panashe Chigumadzi interviews the Angolan-Portuguese literary scholar, novelist and essaiyst Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida. She is the author of ten books, among them Esse Cabelo that has been translated into English and published as That Hair in the US in 2018. A German translation of A Visão das Plantas under the title Im Auge der Pflanzen is forthcoming in 2022. Listen in for a lusophone perspective on Black womanhood, the craft of writing, as well as the relationship between writing and freedom.

Eusebius discussed Black Consciousness, liberation theology and white liberals with Harvard University doctoral candidate and author Panashe Chigumadzi. In this latest episode of Eusebius on TimesLIVE, Chigumadzi starts off by explaining why it is important for black people to not be distracted by anti-black racism, puzzling through the conundrum that racism cannot be avoided in analysis and activism but that, nevertheless, aspects of the justice project requires white people to do work on and amongst themselves without the presence of black people.

Eusebius discussed Black Consciousness, liberation theology and white liberals with Harvard University doctoral candidate and author Panashe Chigumadzi. In this latest episode of Eusebius on TimesLIVE, Chigumadzi starts off by explaining why it is important for black people to not be distracted by anti-black racism, puzzling through the conundrum that racism cannot be avoided in analysis and activism but that, nevertheless, aspects of the justice project requires white people to do work on and amongst themselves without the presence of black people.

Panashe Chigumadzi interviews Professor Emerita of Literary and Cultural Studies Carolyn Cooper, who has introduced the study of Jamaican Dancehall culture and lyrics to academia. She is the author of "Noises in the Blood" and "Sound Clash" and has been writing newspaper columns for various newspaper, e.g. the Jamaica Gleaner. Listen in on an inspiring conversation on Black womanhood, Dancehall culture and the ties between Black communities on both sides of the Atlantic.

Panashe Chigumadzi interviews the visionary publisher and editor Margaret Busby, the first Black woman to found a publishing company in the UK in the 1960s who has compiled the anthologies Daughters of Africa (1992) and New Daughters of Africa (2018). Margaret Busby shed some light on her own background, the challenges she faced in publishing and her visions.

Writer Panashe Chigumadzi on her article "The Cry of Black Worldlessness" for Africa Is A Country, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen looks back at some predictions. https://africasacountry.com/2021/10/the-cry-of-black-worldlessness

First off, yes lieve Dipsausers!!! We did it!!!We hebben de 100% gehaald en zijn iedereen meer dan dankbaar! Maarrrrrrr we hebben nog ruim een week en ook alle extra’s gaan alleen naar de schrijvers!Heard but not seen. The gentrification of Black music and the whitewashing of dance music history have created spaces which are codified as white, that is, spaces in which Blackness is heard, but not seen. The Black roots of dance music genres such as House and Techno have been progressively phased out. Capitalist enterprises have promoted a form of white hedonism which favours instant gratification over community building, preying on partygoers’ inherent desire to experience a sense of belonging. Recent efforts have been made not only to understand neocolonialism within the dance music industry, but also reclaim spaces from institutions which have been othering and commodifying Black bodies for far too long. This special Dipsaus episode will focus on the decolonisation of dance music, and within this context, we will discuss the possibilities for global solidarity and Black togetherness within the context of dance music and its ecosystem.This will be a collaboration between Dipsaus Podcast and Dance With Pride and continuation of Diasporic Self: Black Togetherness as Lingua Franca.SPEAKERS:DeForrest Brown, Jr. is a New York-based writer, media theorist and curator. He has previously worked with publications such as Triple Canopy, NPR, Tiny Mix Tapes, Mixmag, FACT, Zweikommasieben, and Avant.org. In 2017 he was the inaugural Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow at ISSUE Project Room.Amal Alhaag is an Amsterdam based independent curator, cultural programmer and radio host with an interest in counter-culture, oral histories and global social issues. She currently does programming for the RCMC.Dr Mathys Rennela is a postdoctoral researcher working on quantum algorithms at the University of Leiden, music writer and musician, who thrive to connect those different activities and offer a commentary on the current state of the dance music scene.Special s/o to Axmed Maxamed and The Black Archives. And with an amazing performance by LGCA2 and afterparty with DJ ARAKAZA. Perfromance was by lgca²ShownotesRed Light Radio accused of failing to uphold community values.Black Togetherness & Solidarity with Panashe Chigumadzi & Amal AlhaagBlack Togetherness: Fiction & Myths of Black WomxnhoodBlack Togetherness in Framer Framed with Olave Nduwanje in conversation with curators Amal Alhaag en Barby Asante

Panashe is an essayist and novelist. Her first novel, Sweet Medicine, was published in 2015 (Blackbird Books) and won the K. Sello Duiker Literary Award in 2016. In 2018 her second book These Bones Will Rise Again was published as the first book of The Indigo Press. She is the founding editor of Vanguard magazine, a platform for young black women coming of age in post-apartheid South Africa, and a contributing editor to Johannesburg Review of Books. Panashe has written for several outlets and she was also the curator of the inaugural Abantu Book Festival in South Africa. Her writing is also included in the New Daughters of Africa anthology. Furthermore, she is now a doctoral candidate at Harvard University’s Department of African and African American Studies. In this episode recorded during the African Book Festival Berlin, we talk about slippery genre categories, re-imagining historiography, spiritual mediums, resistance narratives, gender, and questions of representation. Note: This episode was recorded in a hotel lobby - and there are background noises at times.

Die Autor*innen Assaf Gavron, Jingfang Hao, Panashe Chigumadzi und Julia von Lucadou sprechen über neue Formen der Orientierung in der Literatur. Mehr Informationen, mehr Möglichkeiten, mehr Pflichten – wo verortet sich das eigene Selbst in Anbetracht wachsender Mobilität, Pluralität und Offenheit der Gesellschaften, wenn die Grenzen des Ichs scheinbar verschwimmen und gleichzeitig das Bedürfnis nach Selbstinszenierung und -vermarktung in sozialen Medien wächst? In der Literatur ist die Suche nach der eigenen Identität ein immer wiederkehrendes Thema. Kann Literatur durch die Eröffnung neuer Perspektiven den Lesern und Leserinnen Werkzeuge zur Orientierung an die Hand geben?

Zimbabwean author and essayist Panashe Chigumadzi asks what part Language plays in our regard for other animals. In wild animal reserves in the south of the country, she talks to ethologists to understand lions, rhinos and vultures. She asks if our greatest problem in entering the mind of another animal has been its inability to communicate as we do? She looks to her ancestral culture of animal totems and praise poems, and the relatively recent explosion of scientific interest in the animal's point of view Contributors include animal behaviourists Frans de Waal, Peter Mundy, Noxolo Mguni, Beks Ndlovo, Francoise Wemelsfelder, Ian Harmer and Anele Matshisela. Producer: Kate Bland (Photo: Panashe Chigumadzi and rhinos in Matopos Park, Zimbabwe)

Episode 15 of #GirlinSkies Robert Mugabe, former president of Zimbabwe, has died at the age of 95. We speak to Alex Magaisa, Thabani Mnyama Jr and Panashe Chigumadzi about this event and they share their perspective of his legacy and the future of Africa's former bread basket. Alex Magaisa - 00:11:50 Thabani Mnyama Jr - 00:23:40 Panashe Chigumadzi - 00:38:50 ---------- #GirlInSkies is your podcast by Nat & Xolie discussing life, hot topics, being Africans away from home and more. Keep the conversation going on @girlinskies on twitter & Instagram and be sure to add #GirlInSkies. Hosts: Nat Twitter: @malaikadiva Xolie Twitter: @XolieNc email us on mygirlinskies@gmail.com

We are supposed to be on a summer break but we wanted to share this wonderful conversation we had with two brilliant minds back in June. We had the pleasure of hosting the brilliant, young writer ✨Panashe Chigumadzi. She is a zimbawean born novelist and essayist who was raised in South Africa. Her Debut novel Sweet Medicine was published back in 2015, she worte These Bones Will Rise Again which reflects and expands on the Zimbabwean Coup of 2017 that was not a coup as well as her recent essay titled Why I Am No Longer Talking to Nigerians About Race. The good people of Bijlmerpark Theater invited Panashe to Damsko for a workshop and a reading last June and we took the opportunity to interview Panashe together with honorary Dipsaus member ⚡️Amal Alhaag who is the co initiator and co-curator of Diasporic Self: Black Togetherness as Lingua Franca collaborative project. Diasporic Self is an ongoing visual, sonic and dialogic programme and exhibition environment that looks into the meaning, conceptualisation, multiplicities and complexities of the notion of Black Togetherness across Europe. The conversation that takes place between Amal and Panashe is a continuation of the conversation that Panashe started with her essay calling for a borader broader solidarity within the global black diaspora. Enjoy this bonus episode!

“To imagine these women is to face their questions. They are difficult. They are painful. They are necessary. We cannot turn away even as we know in our hearts that we collectively fear facing these women because they will demand that their questions be answered. We know that their questions will release a torrent of granite boulders that will destroy the versions of us and the nation that we hold dear even when they harm us in ways untold. The force of their questions will surely crush the old certainties cast in Zimbabwe's great house of stone. And then, what will become of us? Who will we be?” - Panashe Chigumadzi Panashe Chigumadzi is a Zimbabwean born writer. She was raised in South Africa. Panashe is an award-winning author. Her debut novel Sweet Medicine, published by Blackbird Books in 2015, won the K Sello Duiker Memorial Literary Award. Her sophomore book, a long reflective essay, These Bones Will Rise Again recently won Best Author at the fifth Zimbabwe International Women's Award. These Bones Will Rise Again is a reflective long essay on the ‘coup that was not a coup' in Zimbabwe. This reflection is done through the telling of history through the eyes of various womxn in her own family and the history of Zimbabwe. She writes about the history of chimurenga and the role of womxn in the liberation project in Zimbabwe. In this episode, we sat down with the prodigious Panashe pondering on her latest offering. The conversation was filled with musings on the erasure of Black womxn in history. We spoke about Mbuya Nehanda and the meaning of the ‘Big C AND small c' chimurenga. The conversation led us to topics about the Big men in Zimbabwe, the role of music in Zimbabwe's liberation project. In many ways, the conversation was a journey in Panashe's own history. Throughout the conversation, we encountered various parts of Panashe – the granddaughter, the historian, the Zimbabwean, the born free, the outsider and the writer. We spend moments being ruminative about Robert Mugabe and Grace Mugabe as key figures in Zimbabwe. The conversation highlighted the various ways in which womxn and men are reported in history, through respectability politics and taking up of space. We spoke about the meaning of language in knowing and telling histories and other musings about spirituality, a theme prevalent in both Panashe's books. The conversation touched on a number of other important topics such as the future of Zimbabwe under the new leadership. We also asked Panashe about her favourite writers, and her prestigious PhD undertaking at Harvard University. Panashe's book is archiving Black womxn and their stories, it can be received as academic text about reimagining Black womxnhood and the telling of histories. Twitter: @PanasheChig Twitter: @cheekynatives

Two award-winning African writers sit down with Kim Chakanetsa to talk race, gender and getting published in your early 20s. Nigerian author Chibundu Onuzo started writing her first book aged 17, became the youngest woman ever to sign to her publishing house at 19, and released her first novel, The Spider King's Daughter, at the age of 21. Chibundu is based in London and her second book is called Welcome to Lagos. Panashe Chigumadzi is a Zimbabwean-born novelist and essayist. Raised in South Africa, she is the author of a novel Sweet Medicine and These Bones Will Rise Again in which she examines Zimbabwean history through the lives of her grandmothers. (L) Panashe Chigumadzi (credit: Jodi Bieber) (R ) Chibundu Onuzo (credit: Blayke Images)

Tom Edwards and Fernando Augusto Pacheco present highlights from the past seven days on Monocle 24. This week we sit down with the Zimbabwean-born novelist Panashe Chigumadzi, peel open the pages of the delightful dog title ‘Four and Sons’ and hear live music from Australian band Cub Sport.

In our first episode. Ellah Wakatama Allfrey talks to Panashe Chigumadzi about her new essay, These Bones Will Rise Again. This is followed by a short reading from the book by the author.

Guest host Kathleen Maris Paltrineri talks with Zimbabwean and South African writer Panashe Chigumadzi about literature’s relationship to feminism, jazz, and anti-racist discourse as well as Chigumadzi’s forthcoming collection of essays,

As yr draws to a close , we reflect on one of the biggest events on the South African literary calendar, the inaugural Abantu Book Festival. It took place earlier this month and saw hundreds of book lovers flock toea Soweto. The event was the first of its kind in South Africa at its magnitude, with an exclusive focus on black writers. It featured authors, storytellers and poets. To reflect on this event Tsepiso Makwetla spoke to the curator of the Abantu Book Festival, Panashe Chigumadzi, who is also the author of "Sweet Medicine".

The Daily Maverick team chat to Panashe Chigumadzi about her new book 'Sweet Medicine'. She talks about the five years it took to write it, what it's like balancing fiction and non-fiction writing and why she had to get involved with #FeesMustFall.

Forget the regular Frank format - this episode features Janine and Tshego in conversation with Panashe Chigumadzi, media entrepreneur, feminist, novelist, activist and Ruth First Fellow. Enjoy.