El-Salahi – The Wise Enemy
By Hassan Musa I want to introduce Ibrahim El-Salahi here as “our teacher,” using the first-person pronoun, although I did not personally have the honour of being his student when he was teaching drawing and painting at the College of Fine and Applied Art in Khartoum. I entered the college in 1970, a year after […]
Al Fatah
By Anthony James Ratcliff Al Fatah was an extremely popular organisation at the Algiers festival, where it had sought to develop connections with African and Afro-North American revolutionaries. As one of Al Fatah’s leading creative intellectuals, Mahmoud Darwish received the Lotus Prize for Literature from the Union of Afro-Asian Writers in 1969, an affiliate organisation of […]
Trajectories of the Sudanese Gulf
By Michael Vasquez There is a lot of concern about how to narrate the history of the Gulf and the Sudanese. The sort of soft power of the Sudanese and their role in quietly and, in some ways, invisibly administering the state at the crucial moment of its first independent articulation is very little talked […]
Timbuktu: An Old African Saying
By Akin Adesokan The news comes through to enthusiasts of African cinema eagerly following events at the 2015 Festival Panafricain du Cinéma de Ouagadougou (FESPACO) in real time: according to the magazine Jeune Afrique, the organisers of the famous festival have decided to withdraw Timbuktu, the much praised new film by director Abderrahmane Sissako, from […]
Ibrahim El-Salahi
By Michael Vasquez Ibrahim El-Salahi had a show at the Tate Modern in 2013. It was an amazing retrospective – it also had vitrines filled with the material culture by which his work entered into the international art world. He came into the art world in the early 1960s, and he came through various publications. […]