FIELD NOTES
Field notes, event dispatches, news, and jottings — gathered from the field since 2008.
On reading Édouard Glissant’s Poetics of Relation
In Poetics of Relation, Édouard Glissant turns the Caribbean reality of his life into a complex, energetic vision of a world in…
Emeka Okereke Awarded France’s Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters: Acceptance Speech
On Saturday, 27th October 2018, Nigerian photographer, filmmaker, writer and …
Movement is the Word
Sometime ago, I came across Mo Ibrahim’s keynote address at the Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture in Tshwane, South Africa. I listened as he pronounced that (and I paraphrase)…
Dreams are Alive
For the past two weeks I have had an impossible itinerary (a word I have used a tad too often lately). I have been criss-crossing continents and cities to an extent that I am ob…