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Tuesday, October 8th, 2013

How we tell stories about cities

A few weeks ago, Nigerian-American writer Teju Cole was the guest of the Troyeville Hotel book club in Johannesburg. Observing that the one constant in cities is that they change, Cole commented: “Cities are built on people’s bones. How, then, do we tell stories about cities so that those who have died, do not die

Thursday, February 14th, 2013

The politics of selling African art mostly collected during colonial era to private collectors (in the Netherlands)

The proposed sale of the Africa Collection at The World Museum in Rotterdam, the Netherlands has sparked some interesting debates in Dutch media lately. Unfortunately some important questions and issues around this sale are not being discussed....

Friday, September 11th, 2009

YINKA SHONIBARE IN NEW JERSEY

If you have no qualms crossing the bridges or tunnels into New Jersey, go see Nigerian dandy, Yinka Shonibare MBE’s show at the Newark Museum. Through September 20th. (I saw the recent Shonibare exhibition at the Brooklyn...