The Afro Urbanist

Looking into the past, debating the present, reshaping the future.

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[vitosordinationsong]

James Baldwin/Jim Brown and the Children, 2016, Hilton Als

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choi hung estate in hk is the prettiest thing e v e r

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[thebongolese]

Nairobi, the city of the resilient and brilliant. #NaiNiWho? (at Downtown Nairobi)

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Kids

Kenya

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Sonford Fish and Chips. ©Msingi Sasis. (№.017)

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[afriikaana]

Velmaaa 😍

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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)

[artblackafrica]

Grammars of Imaging

Lovis Corinth, Un Othello, 1884

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, 9.30pm Friday, 2013

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Matatu Culture

Streets of Nairobi.

[eastafricaart]

“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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