Life and career

Ntone Edjabe was born in Douala

Douala

Douala is the largest city in Cameroon and the capital of Cameroon's Littoral Province. Home to Cameroon's largest port and its major international airport, Douala International Airport, it is the commercial capital of the country...

 and he moved to Lagos

Lagos

Lagos is a port and the most populous conurbation in Nigeria. With a population of 7,937,932, it is currently the third most populous city in Africa after Cairo and Kinshasa, and currently estimated to be the second fastest growing city in Africa...

 where he began his studies. In 1993 he interrupted his studies to move to South Africa

South Africa

The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

. He works as journalist, writer and DJ and basketball coach. He became co-founder and manager of the Pan African Market in 1997, a commercial and cultural space located in Long Street in the centre of Cape Town

Cape Town

Cape Town is the second-most populous city in South Africa, and the provincial capital and primate city of the Western Cape. As the seat of the National Parliament, it is also the legislative capital of the country. It forms part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality...

. In 2002 he created the Chimurenga magazine

Chimurenga magazine

Chimurenga is a publication, of arts, culture and politics from and about Africa and its diasporas, founded and edited by Ntone Edjabe. Both the title Chimurenga and the content capture the connection between African cultures and politics on the continent and beyond.- History :Chimurenga was...

. In 2004 he is facilitator of Time of the Writer and in 2007 he participated in its 10th edition at the Centre for Creative Arts of the University KwaZulu-Natal. Edjabe is co-founder and member of the DJ collective Fong Kong Bantu Soundsystem. In 2009 he was Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...

 Abramowitz Artist-in-Residence.

In 2011 Edjabe won the Principal Award of the Prince Claus Awards

Prince Claus Awards

The Prince Claus Fund was inaugurated in 1996, named in honor of Prince Claus of The Netherlands. It receives an annual subsidy from the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs....

, with his Chimurenga platform.

Works

In 2002 Ntone Edjabe became founder and director of the Chimurenga magazine

Chimurenga magazine

Chimurenga is a publication, of arts, culture and politics from and about Africa and its diasporas, founded and edited by Ntone Edjabe. Both the title Chimurenga and the content capture the connection between African cultures and politics on the continent and beyond.- History :Chimurenga was...

 and curator of the series of publications African Cities Reader with Edgar Pieterse. He collaborated with radios and publications. He became co-presenter of Soul Makossa, a programme on Bush Radio 89.5, a radio station based in Cape Town. He is curator with Neo Muyanga of the Pan African Space Station (PASS). Among the publications he contributes to Politique Africaine

Politique africaine

Politique africaine publishes articles and book reviews on current issues in African politics. The journal was established in 1981. It is published for l'Association des chercheurs de Politique Africaine by Éditions Karthala in Paris, France....

, L'Autre Afrique, BBC

BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...

 Focus on Africa.

Essays and articles

• In Search of the Lost Rhythm in "Coffeebeans Routes cc", Cape Town,
• Restate the focus to shape local polemic in "Artthrob", n. 71, 07/2003.
• Corps ville violence Why blackman dey carry shit in Politique africaine
  Politique africaine
  Politique africaine publishes articles and book reviews on current issues in African politics. The journal was established in 1981. It is published for l'Association des chercheurs de Politique Africaine by Éditions Karthala in Paris, France....
  
  , Issue 100 Cosmopolis: de la ville, de l'Afrique et du monde, a cura di Dominique Malaquais, Karthala Editions, 2006.

See also

• Chimurenga magazine
  Chimurenga magazine
  Chimurenga is a publication, of arts, culture and politics from and about Africa and its diasporas, founded and edited by Ntone Edjabe. Both the title Chimurenga and the content capture the connection between African cultures and politics on the continent and beyond.- History :Chimurenga was...