“BE TOUCHED. It touches you, if you allow yourself to be touched. Massage for Africa.

On the inside of an Amsterdam bathroom stall door at the Africa in the Picture festival. 10 euro for a 30 minutes massage. That’s a bargain. What is it with the Dutch and Africa?

H/T Nerina Penzhorn.

Further Reading

Writing while black

The film adaptation of Percival Everett’s novel ‘Erasure’ leaves little room to explore Black middle-class complicity in commodifying the traumas of Black working-class lives.

The Mogadishu analogy

In Gaza and Haiti, the specter of another Mogadishu is being raised to alert on-lookers and policymakers of unfolding tragedies. But we have to be careful when making comparisons.

Kwame Nkrumah today

New documents looking at British and American involvement in overthrowing Kwame Nkrumah give us pause to reflect on his legacy, and its resonances today.