Volume 02

Issue 2

Feature

In Kenya's Sea of Tongues, Literary Possibilities FlowIn Kenya's Sea of Tongues, Literary Possibilities Flow

The default assumption that one or two languages must prevail over the others keeps Africa’s literary landscape from harnessing the benefits of the rich linguistic culture present in the everyday, writes award-winning Kenyan author Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor.

By Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

Kenya

Reviews

Book review: Quito Swan’s Pasifika Black: Oceania, Anti-colonialism, and the African WorldBook review: Quito Swan’s Pasifika Black: Oceania, Anti-colonialism, and the African World

Quito Swan’s Pasifika Black has already established itself as a critical text that asserts Melanesia’s place in Planetary Blackness and raises critical questions on Black internationalism and solidarity.

By Nathan Rew

Aoeteroa New Zealand

Reviews

Exhibition Review: When We See Us: A Century of Black Figuration in Painting, at Kunstmuseum BaselExhibition Review: When We See Us: A Century of Black Figuration in Painting, at Kunstmuseum Basel

Swiss-Cameroonian curator and cultural scholar Bansoa Sigam visits the Kuntsmuseum in Basel to see When We See Us, a massive travelling exhibition showcasing a century of how Black people have imagined themselves in figurative art.

By Bansoa Sigam

Switzerland; Cameroon

Volume 2

The Kaleidoscope of Black Life (II)The Kaleidoscope of Black Life (II)

By Janine Gaëlle Dieudji, (T)Sedey Gebreyes, and Liz Ikiriko

Eight artists from Argentina, Canada, Kenya, Jamaica, South African and the United States complete our series of works that depict Black life in its varied dimensions. Using mediums such as painting, collage, textiles, and even hair, they explore the role of spirituality, ancestral practice, healing, dreams, and symbolic representation as means to and modes of being. Like with the first installation, these artists' works are rooted in their specific contexts yet familiar, recognisable and mutually intelligible.

Race Beyond Borders

Mixed FeelingsMixed Feelings

Remi Adekoya, author of Biracial Britain, breaks down demographic trends, and corresponding shifts in the way Blackness is lived and expressed in the United Kingdom.

Reviews

Book review: James: A NovelBook review: James: A Novel

James, Percival Everett’s 2024 National Book Award-winning reimagining of Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn, satirises the changing sameness of American racism, writes Danielle Fuentes Morgan.

By Danielle Fuentes Morgan

United States of America

Reviews

Book review: Zeinab Badawi’s An African History of AfricaBook review: Zeinab Badawi’s An African History of Africa

Race Beyond Borders

Young AfricaYoung Africa

Reviews
A man with dark skin and salt-and-pepper beard with light beaming from his eyes and wearing what appears to be a hat made out of a red tree.

Music review: Nduduzo Makhathini's uNomkhubulwaneMusic review: Nduduzo Makhathini's uNomkhubulwane

Race Beyond Borders

The Rhythm of RaceThe Rhythm of Race

Post-humanist thinker, philosopher and poet Bayo Akomolafe, reflects on the ways in which Blackness can be trapped in the rhythmic call and response with whiteness, and explores ways of reimagining Black experiences.

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