Ntone edjabe biography
- Ntone Edjabe (born 1970) is a Cameroonian writer, journalist, DJ and founding editor of Chimurenga magazine.
- Ntone Edjabe is a Cameroonian writer, journalist, DJ and the founding editor of Chimurenga magazine (estd.
- Ntone Edjabe is the founder, among many other initiatives, of Chimurenga, a pan African platform of writing, art and politics.
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Performing Pan-Africanism – Ntone Edjabe in Conversation with David Morris
David Morris: On one wall of Chimurenga’s headquarters in Cape Town, among shelves of books and artwork from past magazines, there are two quotations. The first is: ‘In Africa, when an old person dies, it is a library that burns.’ The second is: ‘[T]he boss of Credit Gone West doesn’t like ready-made phrases like “in Africa, when an old person dies, a library burns,” every time he hears that worn-out cliché he gets mad, he’ll say “depends which old person, don’t talk crap, I only trust what’s written down”…’ The former is attributed to Malian author Amadou Hampate Ba, speaking at a 1962 UNESCO assembly (and widely referenced as an old African proverb); the latter spoken by the eponymous protagonist of Alain Mabanckou’s novel Broken Glass (2009), a man tasked with writing the life stories of the clientele of a Congolese bar called Credit Gone West. Their call and response is an invitation into the thinking of Chimurenga, founded by Ntone Edjabe in 2002. From its beginnings as a print journa
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Ntone Edjabe is a Cameroonian writer, journalist, DJ and founding editor of Chimurenga magazine.
Background
Ntone Edjabe was born in Douala, Cameroon, and he moved to Lagos, where he began his studies.
Career
In 1993 he interrupted his studies to move to South Africa. He works as journalist, writer and DJ and basketball coach. In 2002 he founded Chimurenga magazine.
In 2004 he was facilitator of Time of the Writer, and in 2007 he participated in its 10th edition at the Centre for Creative Arts of the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
In 2009 he was Massachusetts Institute of Technology Abramowitz Artist-in-Residence.
Achievements
In 1997 he became co-founder and manager of the Pan African Market, a commercial and cultural space located in Long Street in the centre of Cape Town. Edjabe is co-founder and member of the DJ collective Fong Kong Bantu Soundsystem. In 2011 Edjabe won the Principal Award of the Prince Claus Awards, with his Chimurenga platform.
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Ntone Edjabe
Cameroonian journalist (born 1970)
Ntone Edjabe | |
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| Born | 1970 (age 54–55) Douala, Cameroon |
| Occupation | Writer, journalist, DJ |
| Nationality | Cameroonian |
Ntone Edjabe (born 1970) is a Cameroonian writer, journalist, DJ and founding editor of Chimurenga magazine.
Life and career
Ntone Edjabe was born in Douala, Cameroon, and he moved to Lagos, Nigeria, where he began his studies. In 1993 he interrupted his studies to move to South Africa.[1] He works as a journalist, writer, DJ, and basketball coach.[2]
In 1997 he became co-founder and manager of the Pan African Market, a commercial and cultural space located in Long Street in the centre of Cape Town. In 2002 he founded Chimurenga magazine. In 2004 he was facilitator[3] of Time of the Writer, and in 2007 he participated in its 10th edition at the Centre for Creative Arts of the University of KwaZulu-Natal.[4] Edjabe is co-founder and member of the DJ collective Fong Kong Bantu Soundsystem. In 2009 he was Massachusetts Institute o
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