Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica

Finally! Some free time to write a few words about Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica, a show you absolutely must see if you’re in London or Brussels in the coming months. I caught it just before it closed at MACBA in Barcelona, but it’s set to open at the Barbican Centre next month and will travel to KANAL-Centre Pompidou in spring 2027. The show is so eye-opening, intense and vast that I wish I could experience it all over again. Edith Dekyndt, OMBRE INDIGENE Part.2, Martinique Island, 2014 Otobong Nkanga, Tied to the Other Side, 2021 Mónica de Miranda, Path to the Stars (film still), 2022 Pan-Africanism is a school of thought by Black academics, artists, activists and other visionaries who call for equality, freedom and social transformation. To them, Panafrica is a place without a fixed geography, an exercise of solidarity and a space where debates about decolonisation, anti-fascism and freedom converge in pursuit of an emancipatory future. The movement…