Writings / Essays: Mathew Nashed
An Exiled Poet
“Nobody can treat a man like a dog
If he doesn’t first consider him a man”
-Jean Paul Sartre
I was once told of a little boy who expressed the desire – which was, of course, a natural desire – to be free. But in an effort...
Writings / Essays: Rikki Wemega-Kwawu
The Politics of Exclusion (Concluding Text)
Hypocrisy and Double Standards?
In an incisive rebuttal to Enwezor’s virulent criticism of Seven Stories about Modern Art in Africa , which was one of the exhibition highlights of africa 9...
Writings / Essays: Wole Soyinka
A Paradox Comes Home to Roost*
The most aggressive, yet seemingly mute conceptual paradox of our age, because largely unarticulated - I die, therefore I am - owes its authority, as with the greatest paradoxes of mankind, to Religion - You ...