Written by Nina Camara In Liminal Space is a series of interviews in which I want to highlight the experiences of people who have decided to leave an environment which did not reflect their story, for a liminal space ‘between the known and the unknown’, in order to put their
In Liminal Space Part 5
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Siyah: Muhammad Shitta Bey and the First Mosque in Lagos, Nigeria
This is the sixth instalment in ‘Siyah’, a series which explores African Diaspora and Turkish social and cultural narratives, with journalist Adama Juldeh Munu. Hassam Munir alludes to some of the cultural outcomes of the Ottoman Empire’s pursuit to gain greater influence in Africa through religious institutions. He tells the
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Siyah: Zanzibar and Southern Africa – Imperial Visions and Ottoman Connections – Part I
This is the seventh instalment in ‘Siyah’, a series which explores African Diaspora and Turkish social and cultural narratives, with journalist Adama Juldeh Munu. Ahmet Kavas explores how the Ottoman Empire was embroiled in a struggle against Portuguese expansion and domination on the northern and east African coasts. The Ottomans’
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SIYAH: The Sultans of Jazz: Part I
A Reappraisal of the Turkish Influence on African-American Music Ahmet and Nesuhi Ertegün were two Turkish teenagers who arrived in the United States in 1935. But they could not have possibly known the role they would play in both American popular culture and the fight against racial segregation. They established
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SIYAH: The Sultans of Jazz: Part II
A Reappraisal of the Turkish Influence on African-American Music Adama Juldeh Munu speaks to filmmaker Ümran Safter over her new feature-length documentary on the Ertegün Brothers, who left an indelible imprint on African-American music and culture. Audiences will learn how they helped to desegregate music during the Jim Crow era
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Behold, I Am Here: Juan de Pareja’s Remarkable Self-Portrait
Written by Robert Fikes, Jr., Emeritus Librarian, San Diego State University In discussions and biographies of the highly regarded Baroque Afro-Spanish artist Juan de Pareja it is routinely overlooked that he painted the first ever self-portrait attributed to an artist of African descent, a rather amazing occurrence in an age of
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Siyah: The “Blaxit” Years of James Baldwin
This is the fifteenth instalment in ‘Siyah’, a series which explores African Diaspora and Turkish social and cultural narratives, with journalist Adama Juldeh Munu. Afropean look at celebrated African-American activist James Baldwin’s ten years spent living on and off in Istanbul at the height of the Civil Rights Movement. Whenever
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Appropriated Appellations, Cultural Fluidity, and Perpetual Dis-Location: An Interview with Andrew Moss
Written by Tola Ositelu Writer, teacher and father-of-three, Andrew Geoffrey Kwabena Moss is even busier than usual. He’s hard on the publicity drive for his debut novella for young adults, Nicked Named. Loosely based on his own adolescence growing-up in monocultural Middle England, it follows the trials and tribulations of
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Siyah: From the Black Atlantic to Istanbul’s ‘Cool’
This article is the sixteenth instalment of Siyah, which explores the relationship between the African Diaspora and Turkish social and cultural narratives. Journalist Adama Juldeh Munu summarises Derya Özkan’s analysis of the African origins of cool in her essay From the Black Atlantic to Istanbul’s ‘Cool’, and how it relates to Istanbul’s cultural identity and landscape.
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Film Review: ‘Bantú Mama’
Written by Tola Ositelu French national, Emmanuelle (Clarisse Albrecht) is apprehended on the way back from the Dominican Republic for suspected drug trafficking. Whilst en route to detention, her police van is involved in a dreadful collision. Emmanuelle miraculously survives to make her escape. Washed up on a local beach in
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