The BENIN BRONZES Roundtables
Agwu Enekwachi recently participated in a roundtable discussion in Abuja on the impetus and action around the promised return of the Benin Bronzes.
Haus der Kulturen der Welt
Edna Bonhomme examines how a Berlin institution pays tribute to anti-colonial feminists and applauds its new international team.
Essay
Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung on the psychological burden of being racialized while doing art.
African Art Hubs
How do new arts hubs from Accra to Antananarivo relate to ongoing collective efforts that have enabled production in inconceivable circumstances?
Ecologies
Ama Josephine Budge on how to resist climate colonialism through a capacious, trans-temporal Blackness.
Nigeria’s Obidient Movement
Peter Obi stirred an outpour of hope during the Nigerian elections. Agwu Enekwachi looks at some of the artworks made to reflect that spirit.
Open Letter
The Student Working Group for an Anti-racist and Anti-Colonial Art History of Freie Universität Berlin has written an open letter. Read it here.
Common Life
Researchers and arts initiatives collaborate to investigate overlaps between arts and community organization in Africa.
Lubumbashi Biennale
Find here a response by the curators of the 7th Lubumbashi Biennale to our author’s critical piece, published ahead of the opening.
Biennale de Lubumbashi
In the run-up to the Biennale, C& mentee Gloria Mpanga takes a critical look at its relevance, history and curatorial concept.
59th Venice Biennale
It has received a special mention for its inaugural pavilion in Venice, yet Uganda’s global art venture has just begun, writes author Gloria Kiconco.
La Biennale di Venezia
With the national pavilion model, the Venice Biennale masquerades provincialism as worldliness. And it’s Global South artists who pay the price.
