Reclaiming the past: Abdulrazak Gurnah and Nana Oforiatta Ayim | Studio B: Unscripted

Abdulrazak Gurnah was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 2021. Originally from Tanzania, his fiction reflects the ethnic diversity of East Africa, exploring issues such as migration and cultural uprooting.
Art historian, writer and filmmaker Nana Oforiatta Ayim has developed a new language to talk about African art that does not replicate Western concepts, pioneering a pan-African Cultural Encyclopedia and a Mobile Museums project in Ghana.
While coming from different perspectives, Gurnah and Ayim both create work that questions simple narratives and structures built on imperial models. They explore how to remember a past deliberately eclipsed and erased by colonialism.

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the influence of our imagined life is impactful to say the least

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Sheer brilliance!!

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Thank you for the insights!

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The guy is composed!

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Keep on making us proud Nana Okyeman tease

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This is brilliant. Enjoyed the conversation. I will be sharing far and wide.

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Nana speaks from posthumanist theoretical starting points, which are very debatable. On the surface, everything looks lovely and fabulous, but in the depths of these theories, "people" cease to be active subjects, ie. there is not only heterologous diversity, but also the "de-essentialization" of language, which is very dangerous.

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Ayim is so beautiful 🙂🥰

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direct, or worse still covert, they are both nefarious

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