Essay

Querilla Women in Simbabwe

Another 68!

How Zimbabwean Women Achieved Their Struggles for Independence Through Resistance Songs

The underrepresented Zimbabwean Guerilla Women’s Rebellion played a key role in the country’s…

Delegation Parade Frelimo. Photo: Luc-Daniel Dupire. Courtesy of PANAFEST archiv

Another 68!

How 1960s Algeria Became a “Mecca for revolutionaries”

The political and cultural repercussions of the 1968 global riots have been extensively…

(left) Depiction of Dogon God “Amma ”, shown like many ancient God’s with an elongated head. (right) Cover of Dr. Marimba Ani, Yurugu: An African- Centered Critique Of European Thought and Behavior, 1994.

Racism: a bigger picture

“Germanomania” and the Myth of Nationalism

The unfading legacies of Western racism is a paradigm C& continuously examines through…

(left) Cover of Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks (right) Lyle Ashton Harris, Brotherhood, Crossroads and Etcetera #3 [in collaboration with Thomas Allen Harris], 1994. Courtesy the artist.

C& Center of Unfinished Business

How Frantz Fanon Has Influenced Generations of Queer Artists

In this series, C& and ArtsEverywhere commission texts inspired by the books in…

Lyle Ashton Harris, Verona #1, 2001-2004. Courtesy of Lyle Ashton Harris.

The World's Game

Football and Contemporary Art

Football is more than a game. Various contemporary artists have fiercely explored the…

Dineo Seshee Bopape, Lerole footnotes (The struggle of memory against forgetting), 2017. Courtesy the artist and Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg/Beirut. Photo: Aad Hoogendoorn

10th Berlin Biennale Special

Giving Birth Being Birthed

Dineo Seshee Bopape's complex creativity gives form to a practice that is simultaneously…

Eneida Sanches, Transe Iluminado, 2007. Courtesy of the artist. Foto: Tracy Collins.

Religion as Inspiration

Eneida Sanches – Trance and Dimensional Displacement

Among black women artists from Brazil, she is one of the few who…

Adriana Bustos, The Sea and its multiple tributaries, detail, part of the Return of the Repressed, 2017. Courtesy the artist.

Argentina's Black Legacy

Relationship Status: It’s Complicated

The “disappearance of the black” in Argentinian identity is one of the most…

Mahdi Ehsaei, Khaje-Ata, Bandar Abbas. 2015. Photo. © Mahdi Ehsaei. Courtesy of the artist.

Photography

Looking Beyond Documentation of Afro-Iranians

In recent years, the Afro-Iranian community has been under the spotlight. In 2015…

Glenn Ligon, Notes on the Margin of the

C& Center of Unfinished Business

The First Artist to Challenge the White Queer Gaze in a Biennial

In this series, C& and ArtsEverywhere commission texts inspired by the books in…

Where Do We Go From Here?

#BlackHistoryMonth

Where Do We Go From Here?

In honor of #BlackHistoryMonth another article from the C& Archive! Cultural anthropologist Misa…

Christian Etongo, Performance at RAVY Biennale 2016. Photo: Francis Omgba

C& Print Issue #8

Yaoundé, a Contemporary Awakening

The Cameroonian capital’s very first contemporary art gallery is rekindling the ambition of…


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