Publications edited / co-edited by Sokari Ekine Queer African Reader African Awakening: The Emerging Revolutions SMS Uprising: Mobile Activism in Africa Publications by Sokari Ekine Spirit Desire Photo Book Blood and Oil: Testimonies…
As a way of exploring queerness and it’s relationship to spirituality and ritual practices and building on previous work, “Altars: Black Queer Spirit Work” will explore how we as black queer subjects engage with spiritual practice and create rituals as…
For the past 18 months I have been working on producing my first photo book on Haitian Vodoun. I began my journey as a documentary photographer in 2013, six years after my initial encounter with Vodou. I doubt the…
In the introduction to an interview with Robert A Hill, “archeologist of Black memory‘ David Scott raises the importance of ‘memory, community and criticism’ as a form of linkage and the role of criticism as a way of remembering –…
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that was when the people realized there had to be something after giving up, because there were no more places to leave. what do you do with a plant of excuses, scarred in unwelcome, inviting only absence? X marks the…
I met Emmanuel Iduma in November 2009 in Lagos. We were both attending a week long writing workshop, I as facilitator and he as a participant. He was very young and had recently started the Nigerian literary journal Saraba along…
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The following video clips are from a 2016 conversation between myself and Kenyan Filmmaker, Kagendo Murungi. Kagendo transitioned on December 27th, 2017 at her home in Harlem, New York. RIP dear warrior sister! December 7th 1971 to December 27th 2017 …
Congratulations to this year’s recipient of The Society of AfroFuture Visionaries in They Own Category, Ola Osifo Osaze. Ola is a trans masculine queer of Edo and Yoruba descent. Ola is the “National Organizer for the Black LGBTQ+ Migrant Project and has…
Writing in Vulture magazine, Drew Zeiba asks if you can make it as an artist without plugging yourself on Instagram? For millennials, the answer is probably a resounding NO! For those of us who grew up without a constant online…
It’s the end of 2018 and I have two exhibitions this week. . Two photographs from The Future is the next Breath, will be showing during Art Basel week in Miami as part of the AfroFuture exhibition. The AfroFuture event is presented…
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