The first issue of "Chimurenga" magazine was published in April 2002. Each issue has a specific theme. Initially a quarterly, "Chimurenga" now appears approximately three times a year. Interrogating the superficial has always been the core agenda of the publication. The various renegades are captured in a series of profiles "thinking out loud". "Chimurenga" shies away from the Q&A format and includes deconstructed and imagined interviews, surreal short stories and poetry and other devices that challenge strict notions of fact and fiction. Covers are equally indicative of the orientation of a journal which is at once theoretical, erotic, and provocative. One cover featured the words of "Strange Fruit", the song about Southern lynchings that Billie Holiday immortalised. Another featured Neo Muyanga's portrait of Steve Biko's bruised face. The first edition showed Peter Tosh at a gig in Swaziland in the early 1980s, pointing an AK-47-shaped guitar in the direction of South Africa and chanting down Babylon.