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Migrating Homes — Gateways of Our Conventional World by Kibera Arts District. Photo: Anthea Pokroy
ACCRA

‘Atlas of Uncertainty’ reimagines the African city through art and flux

A sprawling exhibition at the Origins Centre challenges colonial narratives and reframes African cities as spaces of resilience, creativity and constant transformation

  • Zada Hanmer
6 min read
Consuming passion: Nolan Oswald Dennis’s installation garden for Fanon, in which earthworms turn a book by 20th-century political philosopher Frantz Fanon into soil. Photos: Anthea Pokroy
AFRICAN AESTHETICS

The garden that eats Frantz Fanon

Artist Nolan Oswald Dennis’s installation turns theory into soil, questioning who gets to decide what’s important — and why

  • Thembeka Heidi Sincuba
6 min read
Fair deal: The RMB Latitudes Art Fair is happening at Shepstone Gardens in Johannesburg from 23 to 25 May, providing a showcase for both up-and-coming as well as established artists and for galleries and independent creatives.
AFRICAN ART FAIR

State of the art: RMB Latitudes Art Fair returns

The latest edition of the pan-African art fair reshaping how we experience, collect and connect through contemporary African art is here

  • Kibo Ngowi
6 min read