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    Hutchinson Heinemann (Penguin Books) have acquired my creative nonfiction book Scanning the Bush!
    African Atlantic Futures
    • 7 days ago
    • 1 min

    Hutchinson Heinemann (Penguin Books) have acquired my creative nonfiction book Scanning the Bush!

    My debut prose book is part memoir, part history, part auto-ethnography, and 100% storytelling. It's about my people's relationship to...
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    'The Natural World', Cincinnati Art Museum
    African Atlantic Futures
    • Oct 27
    • 1 min

    'The Natural World', Cincinnati Art Museum

    I've been honoured to collaborate with curator Nathaniel Stein and photographers David Hartt and John Edmonds on the exhibition 'The...
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    Nouvel article sur le théâtre en Haïti
    African Atlantic Futures
    • Nov 14, 2020
    • 2 min

    Nouvel article sur le théâtre en Haïti

    "Vers un théâtre du corps habité: Actualisation scénique du corps et de la guerre dans Chemin de fer de Julien Mabiala Bissila."Nouvelles...
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    African Atlantic Futures
    • Oct 24, 2020
    • 1 min

    Aimé Césaire and radical anti-capitalism...video!

    Keywords: humanism; racism; Enlightenment; universal humanism; ethnography; Césaire; capitalism
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    New article: "Unthinking philosophy: Aimé Césaire, poetry, and the politics of Western knowledge"
    Jason Allen-Paisant
    • Sep 12, 2020
    • 3 min

    New article: "Unthinking philosophy: Aimé Césaire, poetry, and the politics of Western knowledge"

    My latest article, "Unthinking philosphy: Aimé Césaire, poetry, and the politics of Western knowledge", was just published here in...
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    Conference round-up
    African Atlantic Futures
    • Oct 8, 2018
    • 5 min

    Conference round-up

    The interdisciplinary conference ‘Memory & Performance in African-Atlantic Futures’ was held at the University of Leeds from 31 August to...
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    African Atlantic Futures
    • Sep 3, 2018
    • 2 min

    Memory & Performance: Creativity and Critique

    By Liam Wilby Across the three days of the conference it has seemed to me that there has been a common thread that has run throughout –...
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    Liam Wilby
    • Sep 3, 2018
    • 2 min

    Memory & Performance: Creativity and Critique

    Across the three days of the conference it has seemed to me that there has been a common thread that has run throughout – the necessity...
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    Call/response
    African Atlantic Futures
    • Sep 2, 2018
    • 1 min

    Call/response

    As a theatre practitioner, I have responded to some of what we have heard about in the past 3 days: · How do we work across...
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    known knowns and known unknowns
    African Atlantic Futures
    • Sep 1, 2018
    • 1 min

    known knowns and known unknowns

    - Aylwyn Walsh riffing off of Donald Rumsfeld questions that arise on watching Helle Stenum's documentary film We Carry it Through Us:...
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    performing utopia
    African Atlantic Futures
    • Sep 1, 2018
    • 1 min

    performing utopia

    Performance Allows thinking through and with the body Brings feeling into the archive Makes as/if Move from potential to represented...
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    across and between
    African Atlantic Futures
    • Sep 1, 2018
    • 1 min

    across and between

    questions that cut across times across and between around and through loss and recuperation Call and...
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    The wielding of power
    African Atlantic Futures
    • Sep 1, 2018
    • 1 min

    The wielding of power

    By Zodwa Nyoni Over land Over property Over bodies Over narratives
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    In response to the Arrivals Legacy Project
    African Atlantic Futures
    • Sep 1, 2018
    • 1 min

    In response to the Arrivals Legacy Project

    By Zodwa Nyoni 1. RECOVERY I am Cut from the root Trying to make sense Recreating myself here Going back to see what is there A...
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    tensions/ oppositions in flight
    African Atlantic Futures
    • Sep 1, 2018
    • 1 min

    tensions/ oppositions in flight

    - Aylwyn Walsh Feeling through tensions light and what is unlit what is remembered but what should not have to be remembered, because it...
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    African Atlantic Futures
    • Aug 31, 2018
    • 1 min

    a mid afternoon poem/ provocation

    Thinking with our presenters about fugitivity, refusal, flight and the limits of representation, I'm reminded of a poem by Fred Moten:...
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    African Atlantic Futures
    • Aug 31, 2018
    • 1 min

    Welcome provocations

    -by Aylwyn Walsh In Jason Allen-Paisant’s welcoming address he puts forward the provocations that underpin the call for papers: How...
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    Live Blogging African-Atlantic Futures
    African Atlantic Futures
    • Aug 31, 2018
    • 1 min

    Live Blogging African-Atlantic Futures

    The conference is being documented via live blogging by playwright and poet Zodwa Nyoni and scholar/ theatre practitioner Dr Aylwyn...
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    Memory, performance and the future: A different conversation
    African Atlantic Futures
    • Aug 23, 2018
    • 2 min

    Memory, performance and the future: A different conversation

    The interdisciplinary conference ‘Memory & Performance in African-Atlantic Futures’ brings together artists, curators, academics and...
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