Chester Himes 29 Juillet 1909 - 12 Novembre 1984

Before Tattoos and piercings, the Amasunzu hairstyle was the epitome of individuality in Rwanda. Mother always scolded my brothers into cutting off their hair once their beautiful coils started to sprout from the scalp. I think as a child, I bought into the ill-education that ‘’real men’’ should not grow out their hair. Dreadlocks were for the ‘’no good-doers’’ and one millimetre hair peaking on bold were for the ‘’focused’’, goal achievers. Guys, hair is really political. Why do we call our own hairstyles/customs pagan while giving foreigners the holy badge? Even though this look was worn during the pre-colonial times in Africa, to me, this look also reverberates into afro-futuristic elements that I completely adore.

In Conversation With Sound Artist Emeka Ogboh on Lagos, and Listening To The World In a Musical Way

A lot of people would consider Lagos’ soundscape as being very noisy, and they’d call it noise. But I stopped calling it noise since I started listening to it. — Emeka Ogboh

Ilpo Jauhiainen | But when you first started did you have any doubts? Did you always know sound was going to be one of your main media?

Emeka Ogboh | It’s an interesting question; I didn’t actually set out to be a sound artist. Lagos made me a sound artist. I didn’t always know that sound would be one of my main media of artistic expression. I thought I would be a brief affair, but I completely got sucked into it and I didn’t see that coming. Of course I had doubts when I started, I wasn’t so sure what I was doing or where I was going with it. It felt like I was groping around a dark room, searching for the light switch. But then, persistence paid off.

Read the full in-depth interview with Lagos-based sound artist Emeka Ogboh in conversation with Ilpo Jauhianen.

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Ekombi dancers of Calabar. 1965 Vintage Nigeria

Dakar le 26 mai 2014. Selly Raby Kane, fashion designer, envahit l'ancienne gare ferroviaire de Dakar avec ses créatures mi alien mi cartoon. Le photographe ivoirien Paul Sika, le collectif de Ouakam Les Petites Pierres, sont mis à contribution pour faire le show et remettre au centre l'énergie urbaine dakaroise !

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I’m currently working on my first feature film, based on my short film Afronauts (which premiered at Sundance and the Berlinale in 2014). It’s about a group of Zambians who, in the 1960s, attempted to make it to the moon in spite of their lack of access to the cutting-edge technology of the time.

I’m really proud of the short film because it’s the film that taught me artistic perseverance. It was really hard on my collaborators and myself to create a hot summer desert on a cold beach in New Jersey! We walked away from the shoot with barely enough to stitch a film together. Editing took months & included a lot of pensive breaks. My editor, the uber-talented Sara Shaw, and I went down many crazy paths to come to the one we picture-locked on. We were so sure and so unsure. We sent it out into the world knowing we had stuck to our guns, but not knowing what it would be in the eyes of others. It’s been an exhilarating, surprising ride ever since.

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 Photographer Cristina de Middel’s Intoxicating Blend of Truth and Fiction

King Britt, A Sun Ra Tribute, Chicago

James Baldwin - No Name In The Street

David Hammons, Untitled (The Embrace), 1975 

(A riff on Klimt’s Kiss? or are we hallucinating…)