Editorial

Libation March through the city of Ouagadougou during FESPACO 2025. Photo: Makella Ama.

Film & Cinema

FESPACO 2025 Made Space for the Ceremony of African Cinema

Founded in 1969, the FESPACO is reviving itself while staying alert to the political and alchemical possibilities of film.

Kombo Chapfika, Borderlands, augmented reality installation, 2018. Photographer: Mark Lewis

In Conversation

Kombo Chapfika and Uzoma Orji: What Else Can Technology Be?

The two artists exchange thoughts on their common interest in the interplay of technology and culture, and how the tools we use reshape us.

Imagining a Future for the Arts in the US

Art in Crisis

Imagining a Future for the Arts in the US

From mutual aid to getting in trouble, what can we do as cultural workers amid the federal fearmongering in the US?

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…

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.

INVENTING YOUR OWN GAME

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Ecologies

C& and C&AL invited organizations, artists, and activists from Black and Indigenous perspectives to discuss, contextualize, and reflect on the relationship between neocolonial structures and the climate crisis in their local contexts.

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