The Book of North African Literature
Pierre Joris and Habib Tengou edit a book about the multiple beginnings, traditions and genealogies in the literatures of the many languages of the region, and the region’s diasporas.
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Orlando Reade
Orlando Reade is a Ph.D. student in English at Princeton University.
Controversy and the National Arts Theatre in Lagos
The theater, built by the military and finished in time for FESTAC in 1977, has always been a site of public disagreement.
Zambian skull (plus Zambian guide) in a London art gallery
The Thai-born artist, Pratchaya Phinthong, mines Zambia’s colonial history to explore how historical narratives are performed through objects.
Restaging the Death of Patrice Lumumba
The merits of restaging ‘Une Saison au Congo,’ Aimé Césaire’s history of the life and death of Patrice Lumumba, in London, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor.
How to text someone you love
An interview with the American-Nigerian-Jamaican artist Temitayo Ogunbiyi.
How to Paint Ghosts
An interview with Ivorian artist Aboudia. Jean-Michel Basquiat is often cited as an influence in his work, but local experience is a bigger muse.
Egyptian Graffiti and Gender Politics
An interview with Soraya Morayef, who is documenting the graffiti scene in Cairo, Beirut, Libya and Palestine.
Your Camera is Not a Toy
What did the Italian photographer, Gabriele Galimberti think he was going to achieve with his photo-series of children with their toys from around the world posing for him?
Philosophy and dancing outside the European tradition
A couple of weeks ago Hamid Dabashi's article “Can Non-Europeans Think?” was making the usual hype motions on
The artist as citizen
An interview with Abdellah Karroum is the artistic director of the Biennale Regard Benin 2012, which premise is “Inventing the World: the Artist as Citizen.”
Africa and the Biennial: Regard Benin
In Africa “biennials are a difficult idea, conceptually as well as financially, to implement and sustain,”
Should Mohamed Morsi be TIME’s Person of the Year?
Last week, as he made a bid to become Egypt's latest dictator, plunging the country into
French-Algerian sculptor Rachid Khimoune exhibits in New York City
Rachid Khimoune grew up in a small mining town in Northern France where his Algerian parents
Revolutions and Dancing
In Egypt earlier this year I was taken by my host to a nightclub in downtown
Moroccan Rockstars
The artist Hassan Hajjaj frames his portraits of ordinary Moroccans with a neat shelf crammed with 7 Up and Coca-Cola cans, symbols of a burgeoning import market and aspiration.
Kehinde Wiley goes to Israel
A recent trip to Israel and the new sub-set work he produced there, raises some doubts about Kehinde Wiley’s art practice.