A Volatile Negotiation Between the Past and Present: Invisible Borders Trans-African Project

Okereke sets the project against the opening decades of the century in Africa, and argues for something more demanding than the confidence of an “Africa is the future” mantra: a full immersion in the present, where the inherited past is still being negotiated. The essay gives the Moving Archive the phrase it takes its own proposition from.

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