Category: Geography
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Bikoka Art Project, Cameroon (Eyeonart.com)
The Bikoka Art Project, established in 2021 by curator and art historian Christine Eyene in partnership with community residents from Lolodorf, Cameroon, is a new art-led initiative “fostering artistic and professional opportunities for local youth and women, and supporting the next generation of creatives.”
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Decolonising and diversifying institutions: creating inclusive spaces where difference is respected
The 2017 Serpentine Pavilion – designed by Diébédo Francis Kéré from Burkina Faso, and displayed in Kensington Gardens, London (23 June – 8 October) – represents an architectural structure designed with community gatherings and convivial interactions in mind. Kéré’s harmoniously cylindrical, indigo-blue, textured structure, with its lattice-like wood and metal-framed roof fanning out to form a…
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Afriques Capitales/Capital Africas: A Barthesian multiplicity of cities presented at La Villette in Paris
The curatorial challenge Simon Njami set for himself when conceptualizing the exhibition “Afriques Capitales“[“Capital Africas”] was to provide a discursive, dialogical space where contemporary visual artists from continental Africa and the wider global African diaspora(s) could come together to “invent the city of all cities: a city that belongs to no one but in which everyone can find…
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Installation Art by Otobong Nkanga (on display in Oxford, UK, until November 2016)
The angular and multi-layered, architectural installation “Tsumeb Fragments” (2015) by Nigerian contemporary artist Otobong Nkanga is on display at Modern Art Oxford as part of the exhibition “KALEIDOSCOPE: It’s Me to the World” (20 August – 17 November 2016). Like many works from Nkanga’s portfolio, Tsumeb Fragments addresses the themes of landscape, memory and the legacies of colonialism…
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ECAS: 7th European Conference on African Studies (Basel, 29 June-1 July 2017)
The 7th European Conference on African Studies (ECAS) will be taking place at the University of Basel (Switzerland) from 29th June to 1 July 2017. The theme for this year is “Urban Africa – Urban Africans: New encounters of the rural and the urban,” and I am aware from the preliminary call for panels that there…
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