Sammy Baloji’s work allows us to revisit the DRC’s past and explore how art can help us understand decolonisation.
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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.
The Venice Architecture Biennale has an African curator for the first time this year – and a shift in focus.
With over 200 publications to his name, his three most recent books give a sense of why he is so famous as a historian.
Closing racist exhibitions is a good step, but it doesn’t go far enough to decolonise our museums – an expert explains.
Pride Toronto has the opportunity to change its relationship with Indigenous and racialized people.
Hountondji both disrupted and shaped ideas on African philosophy. He is a grandfather of today’s decolonial movement.
The renowned playwright saw theatre as a link to the wider community - and ultimately our common humanity.
African identity needs a revision to move beyond current understanding of its relationship with China
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.
An African literature lecturer shares how embodied teaching can help students feel that their lives and stories matter.
City dwellers love their homes but there are different types of love that shape how cities are viewed and how they work.
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.
La Nouvelle-Zélande aussi s'interroge sur le sort à réserver aux monuments et aux noms de lieux rendant hommage au passé colonial.
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.
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Associate Professor, Department of Literary Studies in English, Rhodes University
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Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Humanities in Africa, University of Cape Town
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Professor of Architecture, University of Cape Town
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Senior Lecturer in African Literature, University of the Witwatersrand
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Assistant professor, Université de Mons
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Professor of History, University of Canterbury
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Associate Professor of History and Africana Studies, Lafayette College
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Associate professor, Universidad de Sevilla
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Lecturer, Stellenbosch University
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Professor of French Studies, University of Warwick
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PhD Candidate, Political Science, York University, Canada
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Professor, Urban Studies and Professor of Resource and Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University
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PhD candidate, History, University of Warwick
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Associate Professor, History, Carleton University
