Essays

An Exiled Poet   “Nobody can treat a man like a dog If he doesn’t first consider him a man” -Jean Paul Sartre I was once told of a little boy who expressed the desire – which was, of course, a natural desire – to be free. But in an effort...

The Politics of Exclusion (Concluding Text)   Hypocrisy and Double Standards? In an incisive rebuttal to Enwezor’s virulent criticism of Seven Stories about Modern Art in Africa , which was one of the exhibition highlights of africa 9...

A Paradox Comes Home to Roost*   The most aggressive, yet seemingly mute conceptual paradox of our age, because largely unarticulated - I die, therefore I am - owes its authority, as with the greatest paradoxes of mankind, to Religion  - You ...