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Hominal/Xaba — participation in the making of a new moment

If millions of personal hours are poured into circulating a cultural phenomenon, how do we trace its authorship and — perhaps more importantly — its transformation? When is something appropriation versus translation, interpretation or simply scamming? In a roundtable printed by Artforum in the summer of 2017, scholar Homi Bhabha gestures at a slight but…

Soft and unseen: from the lens of Kojo Anim

Ghanaian photographer, Kojo Anim first became fixated with the artform of photography when he came across his brother’s camera at the age of 10 years old. Now 23 years old, Kojo says that his aim as an artist is to reveal to the world the “soft and unseen emotions” of Africans. Speaking to writer Precious…