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Grace Tabea Tenga

Grace Tabea Tenga is a clinical psychologist, dancer in the black women’s collective B16, and art critic born and based in Oslo, Norway, of Tanzanian descent.

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Performers play hand drums around a masked figure wearing an elaborate green feathered costume during a crowded cultural procession, as onlookers gather and take photographs outside a building.

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At the 61st Venice Biennale, the late Koyo Kouoh’s decolonial vision shaped a landmark exhibition, even as questions of representation, solidarity, and cultural authority continued to haunt the African pavilions.