The artist’s work is key to understanding Congolese culture in the last two decades.
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Sammy Baloji’s work allows us to revisit the DRC’s past and explore how art can help us understand decolonisation.
British soldiers questioning suspected members of the Kenya Land and Freedom Army near Gilgil, Kenya, on Jan. 8, 1953.
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Operation Legacy highlights the repercussions faced when people with power determine what information is available to interpret events of the past.
Ghanaian-born curator of the biennale, Lesley Lokko.
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The Venice Architecture Biennale has an African curator for the first time this year – and a shift in focus.
Toyin Falola has turned 70.
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With over 200 publications to his name, his three most recent books give a sense of why he is so famous as a historian.
The Wellcome Collection gallery in central London.
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Closing racist exhibitions is a good step, but it doesn’t go far enough to decolonise our museums – an expert explains.
2022 marks the first year Pride Toronto events will be hosted in person since the pandemic began.
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Pride Toronto has the opportunity to change its relationship with Indigenous and racialized people.
Paulin Hountondji was the anointed enfant terrible of African philosophy.
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Hountondji both disrupted and shaped ideas on African philosophy. He is a grandfather of today’s decolonial movement.
Nigerian playwright Ola Rotimi on one of his stage sets.
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The renowned playwright saw theatre as a link to the wider community - and ultimately our common humanity.
The framing of Africa’s relationship with China needs a rethink.
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African identity needs a revision to move beyond current understanding of its relationship with China
Renzo Martens attends the opening of the “White Cube” gallery on April 22, 2017 in the town of Lusanga in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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The documentary by Dutch artist Renzo Martins is generating important debates today in the Democratic Republic of Congo as well as in Europe. Analysis of the stakes of a film that will be a milestone.
Student protests dubbed #FeesMustFall in 2016 in Pretoria.
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An African literature lecturer shares how embodied teaching can help students feel that their lives and stories matter.
Philadelphia’s LOVE Park, featuring a sculpture by American artist Robert Indiana, shows how love can shape our cities and their futures.
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City dwellers love their homes but there are different types of love that shape how cities are viewed and how they work.
Keorapetse Kgositsile with US author Alice Walker, 1996.
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A study of the late Keorapetse Kgositsile shows how the poet influenced black American culture. It also shows how his mother and his grandmother’s oral traditions in turn influenced him.
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La Nouvelle-Zélande aussi s'interroge sur le sort à réserver aux monuments et aux noms de lieux rendant hommage au passé colonial.
Author Akwaeke Emezi.
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Despite Nigeria’s draconian laws against homosexuality, authors like the award-winning Akwaekwe Emezi are important new voices that add complexity to the question of identity.