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SELECTED WRITINGS

– ‘L’Art au Féminin: Approches Contemporaines’, Africultures n. 85, June 2011.

– with Katrina Schwarz (eds.), Seeing Ourselves – Zimbabwe Pavilion, 54th Venice Biennale. Milan: Charta Art Books, 2011.

– ‘Féminisme(s) en Afrique et dans la Diaspora’, Africultures n. 74-75, February 2009.

– ‘Diaspora : Identité Plurielle’, Africultures n. 72, February 2008.

Essays 

‘The Collection as a Discursive Space’ in Isabel Millar (ed.), A Place With No Name: Works From the Sina Jina Collection. London: Christie’s, 2022, pp. 106-111.

‘Tracey Rose: Within and Beyond (Black) Feminism’ in Koyo Kouoh (ed.), Tracey Rose: Shooting Down Babylon. Cape Town: Zeitz MoCAA, 2022.

‘Reflections on Contemporary African Art: Fragments of History’, in Pauline Faure (ed.), Cosmogonies: Zinsou, an African Collection. Milan: Silvana Editoriale; Montpellier: MO.CO., 2021, pp. 45-57.

‘Changing the Narrative: Visualising Young Female Talents from an Aspirational Lens’ in Alice Mann: Drummies.London: Gost Books, 2021, np.

‘Composing with Paint and Sound. Christine Eyene in Conversation with Lubaina Himid and Magda Stawarska-Beavan’, in Michael Wellen (ed.) Lubaina Himid. London: Tate Publishing, 2021, pp. 118-127.

‘Curating from a Black Female Perspective’, in Katy Deepwell (ed.), Feminist Art Activisms and Artivisms. Amsterdam: Valiz, 2020, pp. 400-407.

‘The Bamako Encounters: On the Possibility of Hope and the Future as Promise’, in Mark Sealy (ed.), African Cosmologies: Photography, Time, and the Other. Amsterdam: Schilt Publishing, 2020.

‘George Hallett: the making of an archive’ in Berit Fischer, Kerstin Pinther, and Ugochukwu-Smooth Nzewi (eds.), New Spaces for Negotiating Art (and) Histories in Africa. Berlin: Lit Verlag, 2015, pp. 166-180. 

– ‘Mary Sibande: Under Layers of Clothes’ in Thembinkosi Goniwe (ed.), Mary Sibande. Johannesburg: Gallery MOMO, 2015.

–  ‘Mary Evans: Memory and Ephemeral Resurgence’, in Maria Varnava (ed.), Mary Evans: Cut and Paste. London: Tiwani Contemporary, 2013, p. 4-12.

– ‘Embedded in the Fabric’ in Maria Balshaw, (ed.), We Face Forward – Art From West Africa Today. Manchester: Manchester City Art Galleries & Whitworth Art Gallery, 2012, p. 22-25.

– ‘Au regard du process’ in Ousseynou Wade (ed.), Dak’Art 2012 – Biennale of Contemporary African Art. Dakar: Dak’Art Publications, 2012, pp. 12-15.

– ‘Yearning for Art: exile, aesthetics and cultural legacy’ in Lize Van Robbroeck (ed.), Visual Century – South African Art in Context, Volume 2: 1945-1976. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2011, pp. 96-119.

– ‘Gavin Jantjes, Freedom Hunters (1976). Subtexts and intertwined narratives’, in Outi Remes and Pam Skelton (eds.), Conspiracy Dwellings: Surveillance in Contemporary Art. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010, pp. 51-65.

– ‘Past Virginity: Women, Sexuality and Art’, in Bisi Silva (ed.), Like a Virgin: Lucy Azubuike and Zanele Muholi. Lagos: Centre for Contemporary Art, 2009, p. 22-27.