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Origin Work

Yasuke

Pathways converging on Yasuke

Ordered stops 5 Across 2 mediums

The traced route

5 stops · ordered to follow

Film

2 stops

Mauritania · Film

Med Hondo · 1970

Anchored in the pathway 'The Bitter Arithmetic of Migration', linked via the thread of 'The body that arrives ahead of its name'.

Senegal · Film

Djibril Diop Mambéty · 1992

Anchored in the pathway 'The Slow Corruption of Communal Memory by Foreign Gold', linked via the thread of 'Bonded service across empires'.

Music

3 stops

Nigeria · Music

Fela Kuti · 1976

Anchored in the pathway 'Rhythm as Insurrection Against the Boot', linked via the thread of 'African body inside foreign empire'.

Ofo the Black Company · 1973

Anchored in the pathway 'The Pulse Beneath the Postcolonial Rupture', linked via the thread of 'Diasporic body as drumline'.

Ethiopia · Music

Dub Colossus · 2008

Anchored in the pathway 'The Lion's Echo Across Diaspora', linked via the thread of 'Africa inside sealed forms'.