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‘An essay game is a modest experiment. It’s basically an attempt, an incomplete form that tries to rearrange existing knowledge.’ (Image courtesy of artist)
ART

Black liberation dreaming: Nolan Oswald Dennis’s digital essay game ‘a sun.black’

Nolan Oswald Dennis’s digitial essay game, ‘a sun.black’, keeps all options available as it examines decolonisation

  • Nkgopoleng Moloi
9 min read
Mighty Sparrow performing in the mid 1950s. (courtesy Calypso Dreams)
CALYPSO

Excerpt: ‘Taking a Six for a Nine: Sexual imagery in the Trinidad Calypso’

Keith Warner explores the sensual pulse of calypso, focusing on the Mighty Sparrow, in an essay from the ‘Erotique Noire’ collection

  • Keith Warner
5 min read
Adeola Oagunju’s Higher Self, from the series Navigating a Dark Space (2017)
AFRICA

Extract from ‘The Journey: New Positions in African Photography’ — an introduction

A new book examines the great flourishing of photography across the African continent

  • Sean O Toole
  • Simon Njami
3 min read