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Dive into explorations of Black life across the globe via our magazine, Moya and podcast, Race Beyond Borders:
In Kenya's Sea of Tongues, Literary Possibilities Flow
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
The default assumption that one or two languages must prevail over the others keeps Africa’s literary landscape from harnessing the benefits of the rich linguistic culture present in the everyday, writes award-winning Kenyan author Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor.
James: A Novel (Book Review) Danielle Fuentes Morgan
"It is difficult to imagine another author who is so well-practised and adept in satirising satire itself," Danielle Fuentes Morgan writes, describing Percival Everett's work on his U.S. National Book Award-winning book James.
A retelling of the 1884 classic Huckleberry Finn, the book turns the perspective from Huck, a white teenager, to James, a Black man on the run from his enslavers, revealing the “changing sameness of American racism”.
The Kaleidoscope of Black Life (II)
Multiple Artists
Issue 2 of Moya’s second volume features shares works from nine artists who deftly deploy diverse materials to depict Black life in its varied dimensions with sensitivity and nuance, each like a single hue in a kaleidoscope.
Black Diaspora: From Bermuda to Oceania
Quito Swan
Pastel houses, pink sands and azure waters. On this episode of Race Beyond Borders, award-winning historian Quito Swan, takes us from Bermuda, his mid-Atlantic island home, to West Papua in Indonesia into the expanse of the global Black diaspora.
The Rhythm of Race
Bayo Akomolafe
"My work is about looking again, situating ourselves in a world that is a lot more complicated [than we may assume]," says [post-humanist philosoher and poet Bayo Akomolafe on this episode of Race Beyond Borders.
Akomolafe brings this sensibility to a conversation on the future of race, calling attention to the "cracks in our time" that expose the failures of modern individualism, decentre the human, and hold new possibilities for Blackness.
Exhibition Review: When We See Us Bansoa Sigam
Swiss-Cameroonian curator and cultural scholar Bansoa Sigam visits the Kuntsmuseum in Basel to see When We See Us, a massive travelling exhibition showcasing a century of Black figurative art.