Africa
Africa 10
Dakar’s Vibrant Art Biennale: Beyond Exhibition as Display
Exhibitions must invite the audience to partake in an experience wherein they become co-sojourners on the road conjured by the…
15 Jun 2022
In Search of The Collective
In beginning this reflection about the collective, I have, ringing at the back of my head, an Igbo saying: Igwe…
29 Feb 2020
Knowledge, Time and Futures of Super(s)heroes.
Is it possible to think from that silence (the silence created by coloniality of knowledge), to undo the colonial differences…
23 Feb 2018
Poetics of Location: Beyond “Africa Focus” of the Paris Art Fair 2017
Version fraiçaise traduite par Janine Gaelle In the train from Paris to Berlin, I reflected on the events of the previous…
18 Apr 2017
On Permanently Temporary Lives: Reflections on Somolu/Bariga – Lagos
In the first quarter of 2016, I made an off-handed decision to find some semblance of coordination in the otherwise…
1 Jan 2017
Africa: A new game of “Scrabble”
We are in Amsterdam. We have been invited in the context of the 5th edition of the Unseen Photo Fair/Festival…
24 Oct 2016
Lagos to Accra on ABC Transport
Where will I begin this one? It’s a few days after Christmas and the days are rushing towards the new…
29 Dec 2012- 10 Sep 2011
Once upon a cold Berlin – Part 1
I traveled out of Nigeria for the first time in 2003, and since then I have not stopped. I am…
- 22 May 2011
Exchange In Changing Times
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- 21 Oct 2008
Killing Two Birds with A Stone (NGOs in Maputo)
When I arrived in Maputo, I was thrown off balance by the amount of “non-governmental organisations” otherwise briefly known as…