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A Long Distance Art Practice Is Here to Heal a World Where Families Are Split Apart By the Pandemic —‘Sister Octopi’, Natalya Konforti & Justine Formentelli

Two cousins separated by time zones and oceans create together to overcome shared trauma, lack of concrete roots and keep the family close-knit despite the distance

November 19th, 2020|Country: France, Italy, UAE, United Kingdom, USA|

A Senegalese Village, Swiss Drama and a Masterful Critique of Globalization From Senegal’s Finest Filmmaker—’Hyenas’, dir. Djibril Diop Mambéty, 1992

An anti-neocolonialist gem from legendary Mambéty: human nature and capitalist indoctrination are under scrutiny when a billionaire agrees to give money to her struggling hometown—on her terms

July 21st, 2020|Country: France, Italy, Netherlands, Senegal, Switzerland, United Kingdom|

Blackness, Queerness and Yoruba Tricksters in the Works of Nigerian-British Photographer Rotimi Fani-Kayode

It has been three decades since the art world lost Rotimi Fani-Kayode to an AIDS-related illness, but his works on race, sexuality, religion, and difference, remain as fresh and urgent as ever

June 25th, 2020|Country: Nigeria, United Kingdom|

The Human Cost of Duterte’s Drug War—‘The Mortician of Manila’, dir. Leah Borromeo, 2019 + ‘The Nightcrawlers’, dir. Alexander A. Mora, 2019

Vigilante brigades committing extrajudicial murders to help the police, journalists trying to shed light on the atrocities, and an undertaker who takes care of the victims’ bodies

June 15th, 2020|Country: Philippines, Qatar, United Kingdom|

A Guyanese Artist, His Communist Wife, Their Marvellous Lives, Wine Bar and Activism—Patrick Barrington

How an art enthusiast helped us uncover a tremendous love story behind a striking self-portrait from Georgetown’s National Gallery of Art

April 6th, 2020|Country: Guyana, United Kingdom|

The Great Black British Artist and the Fruit of Her Toils—Lubaina Himid

A tireless scholar of the intersection of black identity and labor, visual artist Lubaina Himid creates work that has a lot to teach us about separating the self from production in the current moment

March 24th, 2020|Country: Comoros, Tanzania, United Kingdom|

Penciled In for Greatness: The World’s Foremost Micro Sculptors and Their Extreme Graphite Skills, Part 1

The art of carving pencil tips produces tiny works with a myriad of complexities, from potent minimalism to the lush wilderness, from pop-culture references to Dali and Banksy

March 17th, 2020|Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, United Kingdom, USA|

Water Tells Its Own Story–‘Aquarela,’ dir. Victor Kossakovsky, 2019

An elegiac documentary with an urgent message about climate change centers the narrative around aquatic bodies and lets the environment speak for itself

February 10th, 2020|Country: Denmark, Germany, Greenland, Mexico, Portugal, Russia, United Kingdom, USA, Venezuela, Water|

Nothing Great About Great Britain: Alienation by Belonging in Zia Haider Rahman’s ‘In the Light of What We Know’, 2014

A debut novel about a man trying to find acceptance despite the class and race separations is dense with thoughts and revelations, steeped in ice-cold loneliness—an outsider's usual bedfellow

January 13th, 2020|Country: Bangladesh, United Kingdom|

Book: Patience Agbabi, Telling Tales, 2014

A reimagining of the "Canterbury Tales" with sex, sass and grime rhythms: an electrifying collection of poems from a diverse array of characters conceived by British poet of Nigerian descent

October 24th, 2019|Country: Nigeria, United Kingdom|

Book: Gaston Dorren, Babel, 2018

A book of wildly entertaining and illuminating essays on the world’s top 20 languages that celebrates the planet’s differences and similarities in a new way and makes you want to learn a new language

July 11th, 2019|Country: Brazil, Cameroon, China, Egypt, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kenya, Malaysia, Netherlands, North Korea, Pakistan, Portugal, Russia, South Korea, Spain, Suriname, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tamil Eelam, Tanzania, Turkey, Uganda, United Kingdom, USA, Vietnam|

Art: Hassan Hajjaj, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, 2017

Eye-popping futuristic 3D portraits of the people of tomorrow from the so-called "Andy Warhol of Marrakech" who had worked with Cardi B

July 8th, 2019|Country: Morocco, United Kingdom|

Film: Hero, dir. Frances-Anne Solomon, 2018

A biopic of an extraordinary Trinidadian lawyer whose life spanned some of the most fascinating events of the 20th century, which doubles as a primer on the history of the Pan-Africanist movement.

July 5th, 2019|Country: Cameroon, Canada, DR Congo, Ghana, Tanzania, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom|

Art: Ranti Bam, Fete, 2018

Nigerian-British artist creates organic forms from clay influenced by her love for travel and words

June 1st, 2019|Country: Nigeria, Senegal, United Kingdom|

Music: M.I.A., Arular, 2005

The vernacular of rootlessness, multiculturalism and politics of war in one of the greatest albums to come out in the 21st century so far

May 22nd, 2019|Country: Tamil Eelam, United Kingdom|