The 25th May marks Africa Day, the annual commemoration of the 1963 founding of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), now the African Union (AU). Africa Day is celebrated in Africa and around the world  as a vital aspect of the worldwide Pan African Movement.

In honour of this day, the Badilisha Poetry X-Change, together with the African Centre for Cities and Chimurenga magazine, set out to explore and challenge stereotyped understandings of African cities, presenting these spatial entities as products of multiple and dynamic impulses. A focal point of the event was the launch of Pan African Practices, the inaugural online journal of the African Centre for Cities and Chimurenga. Driven by Edgar Pieterse and Ntone Edjabe, the reader aims to be a forum where Africans will tell their own stories, draw their own maps and represent their own spatial topographies