Sometimes life happens to you and you’re so happy you can’t believe it’s real. I remember the most – well one of the most – traumatic events of my life: choosing secondary school subjects and I was confronted with the choice of Biology or Art. Biology was obviously the safer/ “better” choice (as most Caribbean […]
What happens when a society gets trapped in a cycle of excess cash and consumerism? Could there be a link between increasing murder rates in countries which are the world’s top oil producers/extractive economies ? And at what point could “progress” as we know it, lead us to our own demise?
Sometime during the height of the “lock down” I had reason to venture out of my house. While driving through Port of Spain, I saw spray painted on some galvanize around a construction site, “COVID NUH REAL”. A conspiracy theory in three words. When the unexpected occurs, especially if it’s tragic, it is human nature […]
“I have a different idea of a universal. It is of a universal rich with all that is particular, rich with all the particulars there are, the deepening of each particular, the coexistence of them all.” Aime Cesaire , Letter to Maurice Thorez, Paris: Présence Africaine, 1957 ‘States of Confinement’ is an attempt to document and explore […]
Decolonial Daughter is the memoir of a bold, independent black woman seeking freedom across different worlds marked by the heavy weight of history and empire – from Trinidad in the 1980s, to Brooklyn in the 1990s, to Europe today. As Brown writes these letters to her son, she faces the ghosts of history which still haunt our time.
Blitz “The Ambassador” Bazawule is a Filmmaker and Musician born in Ghana and based in New York. Blitz’s short films Native Sun (2012) and Diasporadical Trilogìa (2016) premiered at New Voices in Black Cinema and Blackstar Film Festival respectively. Blitz is also the founder of the Africa Film Society, an organization focused on the preservation […]
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