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Boris Nzebo: on the conversation we’d never had

by Christine Eyene We picked up from where we left the week before in Douala, Cameroon. A last drink before setting off to the airport. A final taste of Douala night life at Sekteur Art, the coolest Hip Hop bar in town. We talk Cameroonian Hip Hop, we talk Cameroonian art scene. He tells me…
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Through Hallett’s Eyes: SA jazz, art, and African literature

“To look, until seeing… but seeing by way of retrieval, of resurging images, buried in unconscious memory. This is the undefined space where, one day, the archival nature of George Hallett’s photography revealed itself. Immersed in a combination of visual, graphic, and textual elements, there they were, all along, rubbing shoulders with other iconic images,…
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PASS @ The Showroom

Christine Eyene will take part in PASS, Chimurenga’s Pan African Space Station radio hosted in The Chimurenga Library, a project co-curated by Chimurenga, The Otolith Collective and The Showroom. The two conversations will focus on Cameroon’s Bikutsi music (Sat 10 Oct), looking at the origins of the genre, its message and style, its influence in…