Editorial

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

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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.

Unidigrazz, Meia riba kalxa, 2020. Courtesy of the artists. Photo: Chris Costa.

"Afterlives of History"

Unidigrazz: A Collective Practice and a Holding Place

The multifacted work of Unidigrazz invites us to revisit domestic scenes as a way to critically reclaim public space.

Wanini Kimemiah, Namanga Yellows, 2020, digital photograph. Courtesy of the artist.

C& x Stedelijk Editorial Fellowship: Wanini Kimemiah

To Spring From Salted Earth

Fellow Wanini Kimemiah presents an editorial essay that introduces eight texts exploring the complex legacies of colonial histories in Kenya.

The Secret Apothecary by Cynthia Nyakiro Ngunjiri.

C& x Stedelijk Editorial Fellowship

The Secret Apothecary

Cynthia Nyakiro Ngunjiri presents a visual art project in process featuring plant motifs inspired by her family’s generational knowledge of medicinal.

Mwende and Mwendwa Ngao.

C& x Stedelijk Editorial Fellowship

Shades of Green

In her contribution, Mwende Ngao explores the complex relationship between urban life and nature in a rapidly developing Nairobi.

AWU Library. Photo: Keren Lasme.

Inside the Library

AWU Library

C& regularly takes a look into book collections holding rare publications. Keren Lasme chooses five books from the feminist library AWU in Dakar.

(clockwise) Manyaku Mashilo, Passage to Prayer (detail), 2023. Credit: Hayden Phipps & Southern Guild Archives. Courtesy of the artist; Tatenda Chidora, Self isolation II, 2021. Ilford Gold fibre Pearl 290gsm, 102cm x 132cm. Courtesy of the artist; Anaïs Cheleux, Mas Maten, Guadeloupe, shot on digital camera, 2016. Courtesy of the artist; Glicéria Tupinambá, Manto tupinambá [Tupinambá Mantle], 2023. Courtesy of the artist. Foto: Glicéria Tupinambá; Elizabeth Catlett, African American, 2009, MUSEUM MMK FÜR MODERNE KUNST, © Elizabeth Catlett Family Trust / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2023, photo: Axel Schneider.

Year-in-Review

C& Highlights of 2024

It has been another year of expanding networks, fostering dynamic collaborations, and producing exceptional art writing.

Myles Igwe, Ndi Nwanyi , 2024. Installation view at 14th Recontres de Bamako. Courtesy of the  Bamako Biennale.

14th African Biennal of Photography

The Resilient Spirit of the Bamako Biennale

The continent's leading photography festival is a rallying cry for African self-reliance and a platform for new voices, writes Obidike Okafor.

documenta und Museum Fridericianum
gGmbH, Artistic Direction documenta 16, Naomi Beckwith, Kassel 2024,
Photo: Nicolas Wefers.

News

Naomi Beckwith Appointed Artistic Director for documenta 16

The Deputy Director of the Guggenheim Museum in New York will lead the next edition of documenta to be held from June 12 to September 19, 2027.

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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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