Articles

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LAKU NEG Artist Talk with Irene Epie

05 September 2025

It has been very difficult trying to make artists understand that a contemporary interpretation of our cultural heritage is possible in a society or world which has portrayed Africa's cultural heritage as backward and uncivilised.

Features

05 September 2025

LAKU NEG Artist Talk with Irene Epie

It has been very difficult trying to make artists understand that a contemporary interpretation of our cultural heritage is possible in a society or world which has portrayed Africa's cultural heritage as backward and uncivilised.

Musings

29 July 2024

Musings on Ancestral Spirituality

In Ifa, ancestors are an essential part of the spiritual realm and serve as guides and protectors. Every individual has a lineage and within the Ifa practice there is an ‘obligation to communicate with the ancestors on a daily basis’ (Fatunmbi).

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Essays

26 February 2024

A Call to all Guardians of the Black [British] Village

Displacement has disrupted our rich traditions – our literal modes of survival – leaving us without actualising rites for our current state. A lack of collective intention bodes ill for the future. How then can we unpack our past and engage with our present to disrupt these futures?

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Essays

02 January 2024

Death, grief and rebirth - the evolution of an artist by Stephanie Abadom Stevens

I can’t speak for other Black artists, I can only discuss my own experience as a Black woman in the arts. It is something that requires skin like iron and a gentle beating heart, it is something that, I believe, has not quite fulfilled its great potential due to historical oppression, exclusion and misuse.

Musings

25 April 2023

On R&D: not prepared to fail - let’s talk about language

You might be familiar with the notion of: You’ve got to be twice as good to get half as far. Embedded within sentiments like this, is the recognition that oftentimes we are operating within systems that favour Whiteness, able-bodiedness and cis masculinity.