Shalom Kasim
Black Orpheus Dispatch: On Re-counting History
On re-counting history 68-sh, 50-sh years later I It is easy to miss the moment when an intellectual tradition starts to wither: there is no bang, no funeral, no obituary. Nothing grand. It just disappears, and one day, you look around and realise that everything is gone, via a slow, suffocating erosion. Black Orpheus was […]
Black Orpheus Dispatch: On Re-visiting History
On re-visiting history 68-sh, 50-sh years later I Last month, when I said you would hear from me soon, I didn’t know it would be this difficult to keep to the commitment. I knew I would be doing lots of travels, but I didn’t know ‘lots of travels’ would mean stops in about 10 cities […]
Black Orpheus Dispatch: A Conversation | by Shalom Kasim
On Re-Presenting History 68-sh, 50-sh years later I. Last year, November, I was in Lagos for the onboarding process for my research fellowship at Archivi.ng. This was coming after all the ‘Hello, we’d love to hear more about your project,’ ‘Tell us about yourself/your history of knowledge work production,’ and ‘You will hear from us’ […]