Editorial

Alfreda's Cinema. Photo credit: Cameryn Hines.

Arts in Crisis

Imagining a Future for the Arts in the US

This poignant piece by writer Daniella Brito reacts to the actions and executive orders that aim to sabotage…

Soñ Gweha, Nyum Elucubris, 2018. Courtesy of the artist.

Review

‘Apprendre à Flamboyer’: Collective Joy in Practice at Palais de Tokyo

Curator Amandine Nana brings celebration and community as tools of resistance in her most recent exhibition.

Family photograph, Ethel Tawe. Courtesy of the artist.

Editor’s Note

Stewarding an Antidisciplinary Practice

Reflecting on oral tradition, rhizomes, and opacity, C& Magazine’s new editor-in-chief, Ethel-Ruth Tawe, shares 3 notebook entries and an invitation.

 
Photo: Ethel-Ruth Tawe.

News

Ethel-Ruth Tawe to Lead C& Magazine as Editor-in-Chief

A bold new editorial direction grounded in critical inquiry, collective care and creative strategy.

Africa Depot at Ethnologisches Museum Berlin, 2015. Photo: Marion Benoit.

C& x Académie des Traces

Examining De/Colonial Traces Through Colonial Collections

In collaboration with Académie des Traces, seven emerging scholars and museum professionals explore the traces of colonial heritage.

 
(left) May Ayim, Showing Our Colors: Afro-German Women Speak Out, 1992. (right) Johnny Pitts, Afropean: Notes from Black Europe, 2019.

C& Center of Unfinished Business

Thinkers and Titles: On Black German Literary Tradition

From eighteenth-century philosopher Anton Wilhelm Amo to Johny Pitts’ twenty-first-century perspective via May Ayim.

Inside the Library of AWARE in Paris. Photo: Keren Lasme.

Inside the Library

AWARE (Archives of Women Artists, Research & Exhibitions)

In this series, C& explores special book collections. This time, Keren Lasme shares her top five books from the queer-feminist space AWARE in Paris.

(Clockwise) Sena Burgundy, Final Ascent, 2024; Nana Frimpong Oduro, Family Matters, 2024; Reginald Boateng, OUR WATERS TURNS RED, The Scream For Urgency, 2024; Emmanuel Aggrey Tieku, Shredde Connections In The Alley II, 2025; Dela Anyah, Elementary Rebirth, 2023. All courtesy of artists and ellipse art prize.

News

Ellipse Prize 2025 Announces Finalists of 5th Edition

Dedicated to the emerging scene in Ghana, the final 5 are Sena Burgundy, Reginald Boateng, Emmanuel Aggrey Tieku, Nana Frimpong Oduro, and Dela Anyah.

Tandazani Dhlakama | Photo: Lunghelo Mlati

News

ROM Announces Tandazani Dhlakama as Curator of Global Africa

Formerly at Zeitz MOCAA, the curator is appointed to lead the Africa collection and enhance community engagement at Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto.

Lubaina Himid, Le Rodeur: Exchange, 2016. Courtesy of the artist, Hollybush Gardens, and Modern Art Oxford

From the Archive

In Conversation with Lubaina Himid: The Artist Set to Represent the UK at Venice Biennale 2026

Revisiting an earlier conversation with the artist from our archive, she reflects on her own archive of experiences that shape her sense of belonging.

Edson Chagas, Tipo Passe, 2014. A World in Common . Contemporary African Photography, Installation view at C/O Berlin, 2025 © C/O Berlin Foundation. Photo: David von Becker.

In Conversation

Osei Bonsu: A Curatorial Lens on Photography as Identity and Tradition, Counter-Histories and Imagined Futures

C& partners with C/O Berlin for a book residency at ‘A World in Common. Contemporary African Photography’ exhibition curated by Osei Bonsu.

Zoé Whitley. Photo: Daryll Borja.

News

Dr. Zoe Whitley Named Curator of Art Toronto Focus Exhibition

Dr. Zoé Whitley will curate the Focus Exhibition at the 26th Art Toronto, showcasing art from participating galleries for collectors to view and buy.

Ladji Diaby, No one has ever called their child hunger, Kunstverein Nürnberg, 2024. Photo: Lukas Pürmayr.

Material Culture

Ladji Diaby’s Sampling Sensibilities Are Material and Time-Bending

In a subversive reconfiguration of images and objects, the exhibition “No One Has Ever Called Their Child Hunger” conjures a cosmos.

(left) Modupeola Fadugba, (right) her awarded work: Portrait of an Artist at Ease, 2024. Both courtesy of The Norval Foundation.

News

Modupeola Fadugba Wins The Norval Sovereign African Art Prize 2025

Fadugba becomes the fourth recipient of this prestigious award, honored with a cash prize, a solo exhibition, and a residency in 2025.

Installation views, 'The Other Side of Now’, courtesy of Zeitz MOCAA. Photograph by Dillon Marsh.

Film & Cinema

On History and Fiction: Tuan Andrew Nguyen’s Cinematic Memory Work

Vusumzi Nkomo reflects on The Other Side of Now at Zeitz MOCAA, an exhibition that explores the past and ongoing impacts of imperial war.

César Schofield Cardoso, Perpetual Cycle from Rust series, 2017. Courtesy the artist.

“Afterlives of History”

Cabo Verde’s Layered Temporalities Emerge in the Work of César Schofield Cardoso

Ana Nolasco explores César Schofield Cardoso’s work, examining Cabo Verde’s colonial past, memory, and the impact of global capitalism on identity.

Performance by Seyi Adelekun, Healing Forest - An Ecology of Spiritual Herbalism, KLA ART 2024 (Photo credit: Ethel Aanyu)

Artistic Communities

Kampala Calling: The African and Diaspora Artists Flocking to Uganda

Anna Adima reflects on the embrace of community and resourcefulness despite infrastructural challenges in Kampala’s rapidly expanding artistic scene.

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