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Over My Dead Body: Everyone That Calls Me Brother, Brother Is My Brother Indeed

A text by Fogha Mc Cornilius Refem

I have to work on this text from the back. I usually start a text by figuring out what I want to call it and then I start writing so that I do not worry about it. The text has a title already on my phone, well there are two texts and they are slightly related. Too much has happened and I am…

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DOGS HUNTING IN THE PARK, OR, HOW TO FOLLOW AN EMAIL THREAD IN 2017

An Essay by Neo Musangi

My response to racism is anger. I have lived with that anger, on that anger, beneath that anger, on top of that anger, ignoring that anger, feeding upon that anger, learning to use that anger before it laid my visions to waste, for most of my life. Once I did it in silence, afraid of the weight of…

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Epistemological landscapes.

Databases, archival websites and the nature of information. By Erik Stein.

This is the script of a lecture by Erik Stein held on the occasion of a workshop on the digital archive in Dakar in January 2023. For the French version, see below.

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Imagining an Archive for Decolonial Knowledge

TALKING OBJECTS Research Lab

A digital conversation in December 2021. With Njoki Ngumi, Jim Chuchu, Neo Musangi, Malick Ndiaye, Mahret Ifeoma Kupka and Isabel Raabe

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Lecture & Artwork by Caroline Gueye

Le Langage des Objets: Restitution de résidence

This lecture was held on the occasion of the TALKING OBJECTS LAB event «Le Langage des Objets» by artist Caroline Gueye at Musée Theodore Monod, Dakar, Dec 4, 2021.

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Decolonial information technology workshop

TALKING OBJECTS Research Lab

A digital conversation on the digital. With Chao Tayiana Maina, Erik Stein, Mahret Ifeoma Kupka, and Isabel Raabe.

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When the empire gets weary, the objects may return

Njoki Ngumi in conversation with Jim Chuchu

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