Building an art gallery in the midst of war in Zimbabwe

“Ndabatisa malayitsha mapiritsi amai eBP” (I gave malayitsha the BP tablets for mother). “I will send [the groceries] with malayitsha at the end of the month.” “Is your malayitsha reliable, I want to send my things home?” “How much does [the] malayitsha charge [to carry] one thousand rands?” “Did malayitsha deliver all the things I sent?”

Other Lives of the Image

PATRICIA HAYES AND IONA GILBURT
Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape
 

Retakes in Liquid Time*
In the wake of intensifying debates on decolonisation and restitution in Africa and
its francophone diaspora, a Facebook posting of 6 February 2020 gave an other life

to a photographic portrait of the French-Italian explorer Savorgnan de Brazza taken in 1882.