afrourbanist
The Afro Urbanist
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Looking into the past, debating the present, reshaping the future.
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afrourbanist · 8 years ago
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James Baldwin/Jim Brown and the Children, 2016, Hilton Als
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afrourbanist · 8 years ago
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afrourbanist · 8 years ago
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choi hung estate in hk is the prettiest thing e v e r
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afrourbanist · 8 years ago
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afrourbanist · 8 years ago
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Nairobi, the city of the resilient and brilliant. #NaiNiWho? (at Downtown Nairobi)
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afrourbanist · 8 years ago
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Kids
Kenya
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afrourbanist · 8 years ago
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Sonford Fish and Chips. ©Msingi Sasis. (№.017)
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London, 2016
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Black women with chicken (2014) by Carrie Mae Weems
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Untitled 65. ©Msingi Sasis. (№.113)
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afrourbanist · 8 years ago
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Grammars of Imaging
Lovis Corinth, Un Othello, 1884
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, 9.30pm Friday, 2013
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afrourbanist · 8 years ago
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Matatu Culture
Streets of Nairobi.
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afrourbanist · 9 years ago
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“Tree” was part of the group show “Forecast” that brought together Jackie Karuti, Gor Soudan and myself [Wambui Wamae Kamiru] at the Goethe Institute Nairobi.
“Tree” was the creation of a tree by someone who had never seen a tree but had been given the definition from memory by someone who once knew what a tree was.
As the days progressed over the one week, the rose petals began to rot. Each day, the petals changed in look and smell and this spoke about the progression of life to death, fresh memory to forgotten memory.
The changing colours represent changing seasons as imagined by “the one who never saw a tree.” While the use of newspaper is symbolic of our consumption of tree products.
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afrourbanist · 9 years ago
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Hannah Sider ©
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