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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
On Truth and Honesty
“Truth is bitter” is an all too familiar expression. As it seems to me, the expression borrows its validity from…
3 May 2021
Seeing in the Eye: On Photography and the Gaze
“The danger of identifying with a stranger is the possibility of becoming a stranger. To lose one’s racialized rank is…
7 Feb 2019
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
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
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
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
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