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Art: Romuald Hazoumè, Liberté, 2009

One of West Africa’s biggest artists and his Yoruba masks made out of petrol cans: a sharp, tongue-in-cheek reflection on the state of art restitution and material culture in the post-colonial world

July 17th, 2019|Country: Benin|

Film: Bigger Than Africa, dir. Toyin Ibrahim Adekeye, 2018

A long overdue educational and mesmerizing documentary on the way Yoruba religion spread from West Africa to many regions of the world via slave trade routes: and people practicing it today

June 19th, 2019|Country: Benin, Brazil, Cuba, Nigeria, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, USA|

Film: Borders, dir. Apolline Traore, 2017

A road movie about women travelling across the borders between the West African countries by bus, observing the corruption, the crime and some downright bizzare occurrences

June 8th, 2019|Country: Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal|

Art: Laeïla Adjovi and Loïc Hoquet, Malaïka Dotou Sankofa, 2017

A series of photographs on freedom and African identity that won the Dak’art Biennale Grand Prix

May 17th, 2019|Country: Benin, France|