Interview

The Exit Tour at the Off of the Dak'art Biennale. Courtesy of the Exit Tour members.

Looking back on the Exit Tour 2006

An Epic Art Journey through West Africa

Led by Goddy Leye, in 2006 seven artists went on a journey from…

Àsìkò Dakar, participants at Raw Material Company, 2014, Dakar. Photo by and courtesy of Erin Rice.

C& Print Issue #7

Àsìkò Diaries

Mimi Cherono Ng’ok, Victoria Udondian and Dana Whabira talk to Stephanie Baptist about…

Spread from Hââbré: The Last Generation, 2014–16 (Fourthwall Books, 2016). Photographs by Joana Choumali. Courtesy the artist and Fourthwall Books

C& and Aperture Magazine

A Short History of the African Photobook

For Bronwyn Law-Viljoen, publisher of Fourthwall Books, the photobook is a space for…

Eric Gyamfi, Some of the LGBT community members organize a night of dance and performance for themselves after the international day against homophobia and transphobia event as a way to get to know other community members and to network. From the series Just Like Us, 2016. Courtesy the artist

C& and Aperture Magazine

In Ghana, Visions of Queer Friendship and Love

Eric Gyamfi reflects on his activism, photography, and telling the stories of West…

Aida Muluneh, Departure, 2016
Courtesy the artist and David Krut Projects

C& and Aperture Magazine

Learning from Addis Ababa

The Addis Foto Fest is a Forum Connecting African Photographers. Ethiopian photographer Aida…

Students in front of University of Yaoundé. Courtesy of Paul-Henri S. Assako Assako.

C& Print Issue #7

Troubling Categories

Indifferent African states have enabled Western elites to define the continent’s artistic production,…

Teaching to Empower

C& Print Issue #7

Teaching to Empower

C& asks M. Neelika Jayawardane, Sharlene Khan, and Felwine Sarr about teaching students…

Pélagie Gbaguidi, The Missing link Dicolonisation Education by Mrs Smiling stone, Documenta 14, Athens 2017. Installation, school desks, photographs of Dr. Peter Magubane, glassine paper sheets, drawings with color pencil, earth and lipstick on transparent paper, video, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.

C& Print Issue #7

“If you’re running from history, it will eventually catch up with you”

Pélagie Gbaguidi, an artist from Benin appearing on documenta 14, tells C& about…

Akinbode Akinbiyi, Passageways, Involuntary Narratives, and the Sound of Crowded Spaces, 2015-2017. Inkjet prints. Courtesy of the artist.

C& and Aperture Magazine

Camerawork Now

New technologies have helped and hindered the development of photography on the continent,…

Minia Biabiany, The Unity is submarine, Installation 2015. Courtesy by the artist.

In Conversation with Minia Biabiany

Poetics of Immanence

Minia Biabiany talks about her installation art, how her Caribbean upbringing influences her…

Jeannette Ehlers
'Whip it Good’ 2017. Photo: Aukje Lepoutre Ravn. Courtesy the artist.

Decolonial Thinking with Rolando Vázquez

The End of the Contemporary?

In March of this year, the sociologist Rolando Vázquez was invited to Berlin…

Samuel Fosso, La femme libérée américaine dans les années 70 (The liberated
American woman of the 1970s), 1997, from the series Tati
© the artist and courtesy JM Patras/Paris

C& and Aperture Magazine

The Lives of Samuel Fosso: A Conversation with Yves Chatap

This article is part of a series produced in collaboration with Aperture magazine,…


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