How artists from Guyana are thinking through the “Liminal Spaces” of Migration
Keisha Scarville’s mother left the South American country of Guyana for the USA in 1967. Growing up, Guyana was part memory and part imagination for Scarville, “stitched together..
Adjoa Wiredu’s ‘On Reflection: Moments, Flight and Nothing New’ is an evocative debut collection of charmingly honest poetry
“I thought my experiences, interpretations of my past and memories were invalid,” writes Adjoa Wiredu, a writer and artist from London in the acknowledgements of her debut poetry..
Afronauts are forever | The enduring cultural legacy of the ‘Zambia Space Program’
In Afronauts (2014), a short film by Ghanaian filmmaker Nuotama Frances Bodomo, 17-year-old Matha has been chosen to be Zambia’s first person to be sent to the moon. Through rigo..
Frankfurt photographer Ana Paula dos Santos deconstructs ‘A Place in the Sun’ in her eponymous series
A place in the sun, (German: Ein Platz in der Sonne) is a phrase heavy with longing. It is credited to the Foreign affairs Minister of the German Empire, Bernhard von Bülow. Refe..
MAMA EP | Muzi talks stages of grief and making Pan-African electronica
Muzi, the 29-year-old South African musician-producer making waves across continents was dubbed “golden boy” when he entered the scene for the lightness and funk of his music. Ho..
Monira Al Qadiri on the end of oil and documenting petro-culture for a post-oil world
Born in Senegal, educated in Japan and currently based in Germany, Kuwaiti visual artist Monira al Qadiri came of age during the rapid transformation of Kuwait from one of the wo..
“As a country, we would like to thank you” | Why Elaine is transforming South Africa’s R&B landscape
Being used to good music from South Africa, Ndivhuwo Elaine Mukheli, known professionally as Elaine caught seemingly everyone unprepared in 2019, when she burst into the scene wi..
Silvia Rosi is inverting the classic West African studio portrait to retell her family’s history
At first, an image by the London-based Italian-Togolaise artist Silvia Rosi might strike the viewer as eerily familiar, and yet somehow fresh: vintage and thoroughly contemporary..
‘Centropy’ | Deana Lawson and Black Image Matters
There are at least two liminal frames that offer themselves when looking at images of Black people. The first is that on a fundamental level, images generally and images of Black..
‘Sondela Forever’ | Muzi drops his most ethereal offering yet
In the opening scene of Sondela Forever, it is hard to catch the walking man in the wide frame. Once-green grass, now the colour of hay although it is still growing, stretches ou..