A Conversation with
Oyindamola Fakeye
On Legacy & Experimentation
By Frieda Ekotto
“I often use the image of a relay race — my tenure
represents the third leg, an
essential stretch that requires endurance, clarity and trust.”
Oyindamola Fakeye is Executive and Artistic Director of the Centre for
Contemporary Art, Lagos (CCA Lagos), where she currently leads the itinerant
Àsìkò Art School program.Trained by Bisi Silva, she extends CCA’s legacy by
articulating experimental pedagogy, archival practice, and Pan-African circulation.
She led the campaign that enabled the acquisition and relaunch of the CCA Lagos
building. Co-founder of the Video Art Network Lagos (with Emeka Ogboh and Jude
Anogwih). She anchors the institution’s programming in South–South dialogues and
situated learning formats (e.g., Àsìkò 2025, Cairo).
A Conversation with Tiona
Nekkia McClodden
Faith, Form, and the Ethics of the Self
By Frieda Ekotto
“They told me, ‘You don’t have to hide.’ That became the
core of my work — to
show others like me that visibility is a right and a
responsibility.”
Tiona Nekkia McClodden
American interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker, recipient of the Whitney Museum’s
2019 Bucksbaum Award. Her work explores Black queer genealogies, Afro-
diasporic spiritualities, and the ethics of visibility. Recent presentations include The
Brad Johnson Tape, X – On Subjugation at MoMA (2023), and ONDINE’S SUITE at
Saint Laurent Rive Droite, Paris (Sept 11–Oct 6, 2025), alongside the artist’s book
DON’T FORGET TO FORGET TO BREATHE. Working across film, sculpture, and
installation, she engages ritual practices from Santería Lucumí and frameworks of
rememory to probe responsibility, embodiment, and time.
A Conversation with Mo Laudi
Afrosonica, Sound and Radical Hospitality
By Frieda Ekotto
“Radical hospitality is the operational core of Globalisto.
It envisions belonging
beyond borders and insists on circulation without capture.”
Mo Laudi (Ntshepe Tsekere Bopape)
South African artist, DJ, composer, and curator based in Paris. Founder of
Globalisto, he develops an ethics of radical hospitality where sound becomes a
tool for relation and diasporic circulation. Co-curator of Afrosonica: Soundscapes
at the Musée d’ethnographie de Genève (May 16, 2025 – January 4, 2026), he
conceives the museum as an architecture of listening. His practice spans
exhibitions, sound installations, and performances in which mixing functions as a
curatorial montage—through formats such as the Imbizo and Decolonise the Dance
Floor. His sonic and curatorial research has been presented at MEG Genève and
MAMC+ Saint-Étienne, mapping Pan-African and diasporic trajectories through
sound, care, and circulation.l.
A Conversation with
Frieda Ekotto
Art, Relation, and the Center
By Anna-Alix Koffi
“Wynter invites us to exit universality as a mask of
domination. To think from the
Francophone African world is to redraw the map of what counts as the center.”
Frieda Ekotto is Professor at the University of Michigan (Department of Afroamerican and
African Studies; Department of Comparative Literature), Lorna Goodison Collegiate
Professor. Ph.D. (French & Comparative Literature), University of Minnesota; spécialiste
de Jean Genet et des littératures et cinémas du monde noir.
Autrice de L’Écriture carcérale et le discours juridique: Jean Genet (2001), Race and Sex
across the French Atlantic (2011) et du roman Chuchote pas trop (2005).
Experte invitée pour l’exposition FANON antinomies à SOMETHING art space à Abidjan.
Guest Editor du numéro inaugural de Profil Papier (Abidjan Paris, 2025).
Anna-Alix Koffi is creative director and publisher based between Abidjan and Paris;
founder of SOMETHING art space (2022). Publisher of SOMETHING WE AFRICANS
GOT (since 2017) and PROFILES (since 2019); launches Profil Papier with this inaugural
issue. Develops editorial and curatorial platforms linking Abidjan and international scenes
through exhibitions and public programs.
Recent projects at SOMETHING art space include FANON antinomies (16 Sep – 29 Nov
2025) and UKR, A Window onto Kyiv (29 Jul – 30 Aug 2025).
Former co-founder and creative director of ABY (Abidjan, 2021–2023).