Essays
Essays 18
Two Months in Barcelona: A Recap
Yesterday, it rained and somewhat doused the sunniness of the city. Yet, it rendered the coal-tarred roads, streets, and pavement…
20 May 2021
Is Amoeba Shapeless, or is Shapelessness a Shape?
I want to begin this reflection by taking some memory-steps back to my high school days when I was a…
10 Jul 2018
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
“Water No Get Enemy”: A Thing or Two About Running.
I am in a different mood today. So I am going to write about running. But first, let me say…
9 Feb 2018
San Francisco: Back and Forth Across Place and Time
It’s been about ten days since I flew across the ocean and backward in time from Paris to San Francisco.…
5 Nov 2017
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
A Photographer’s Note (I)
These notes are jottings inspired by the reading (and being in the sense) of John Berger’s Understanding a Photograph. Sometimes I…
5 Apr 2016
What to Make of Differences in the African Experience (1)
In Berlin, I had the pleasure of catching up with some longtime friends and colleagues. Luckily it was in a…
2 Dec 2015
Black Portraitures: Whose Black is it?
Some days ago, I joined a host of brilliant and beautiful artists, scholars, writers, cultural operators and art enthusiasts of…
21 Jun 2015
Exploring a Void – “The Middle Ground”
In my previous writing, A Border Philosophy, I discussed the nature of a border, as something porous but concurrently has…
26 Jan 2015
To Be or To Have – That is the Question
It was Christmas of twenty fourteen. My first Christmas in Amsterdam. I was not ready for the laidback-ness of the…
2 Jan 2015
A Border Philosophy
I was in conversation with a friend, breaking down thoughts around the question of borders. My point of deperture was that…
24 Nov 2014
From Accra With Love
It suffices to say that I am in Accra as I write. Yesterday we were out to Tawala beach where…
25 Jul 2013
Discussing Aesthetics in The Trans-African Project
Reality can be synthesized I am sitting in a moderately furnished apartment, in the living room precisely. There is a flower vase…
3 Jan 2013
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
Transcending "Africa"
In several terms, Africa has been bombarded with various nomenclatures in times past in efforts to define and sometimes cup its complexness.…
16 May 2012