Post-Colonial Discourse
Post-Colonial Discourse 11
A Time in Bloomington, Indiana and a note on the Dialectics of the Future.
This essay is a short recount of my time in the city of Bloomington in Indiana. In the later part…
25 Feb 2023
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
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
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
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
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
Diary of a Border-Being , New York.
I have been in New York for two days. Just before arriving here, I got back from a seven weeks…
29 Oct 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