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Visual lived experience storytellers. Using the lived and living experience stories as a tool for social change and social justice.

Joined November 2020
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🟣Zambarau Profile🟣 Zambarau Profile uses visual storytelling to honor purple as a symbol of protest against femicide and gender-based violence (GBV). Named after the Swahili word for purple, this exhibition is inspired by the wave of purple profile pictures from South Africa,
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What if we stopped calling them "objects" and started asking: what does it mean to meet your history in a museum? What is felt before it is understood? The Cold Brutish Museum asks the questions museums avoid. eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-cold-…
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THE COLD BRUTISH MUSEUM This exhibition emerges from Africaniwa’s recent contribution to the Object’s Journey exhibition at York Army Museum. A deeply emotional encounter with histories that are not distant, but lived, carried, and felt.
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In sitting with that experience, a reflection surfaced: What if the museum is not only a place of display, but a crime scene; holding traces of violence, displacement and exile?
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Zambarau Profile weaves visual storytelling to honour purple as protest, carrying grief, truth and resistance to femicide. eventbrite.co.uk/e/zambarau-…
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Zambarau; the Swahili word for purple, anchors this exhibition; Zambarau Profile, inspired by the recent wave of purple profile pictures that emerged from South Africa as a powerful digital protest against gender-based violence (GBV) and femicide.
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From the looms of West Africa to the batik vats of Southeast Asia and into the mills of Halifax, threads carry stories. Stitch-tuation unravels the journeys of cloth across oceans, weaving together patterns of trade, tradition, and transformation.
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Each fabric holds a “situation” of hands that made it, histories it has travelled through, and identities it continues to shape.
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Harijaga Fora; the first favour. To speak of food is to speak of memory. The scent of ancestral kitchens, the rhythm of hands sowing seed, the echo of land both yielding and grieving. In every grain lies a lineage, in every harvest, a hymn. eventbrite.co.uk/e/harijaga-…
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Our stories, like seeds, must be tended with care, so they do not vanish like smoke before the wind.
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Harijaga Fora Tickets, Fri, Jun 27, 2025 at 6: 00 PM | Eventbrite (Free for the global South) share.google/5xmonZfUaU2jWJ0…
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In solidarity with the peoples of a true self-governing territory eventbrite.co.uk/e/in-solida…
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#AfricaDay "Revisiting Our History, Shaping Our Future" At Africaniwa, we are dedicated to illuminating narratives that are often overlooked in traditional history books Our future is shaped by the voices of those who carry these memories. #AfricaDay2025
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CALLING OUR GLOBAL AFRICAN COMMUNITY
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IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE PEOPLES OF A TRUE SELF-GOVERNING TERRITORY A truth-telling visua conversation on recent developments across the Niger Alliance nations decisively breaking colonial ties with France. eventbrite.co.uk/e/in-solida…
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Africaniwa invites you to a truth-telling experience into the seismic shifts unfolding across the Niger Alliance nations of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, as they forge a bold new path by severing long-standing colonial ties with France.
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1/ Art Attack In celebration of World Art Day 2025, Africaniwa warmly invites you to a storytelling session like no other: Art Attack eventbrite.co.uk/e/art-attac…
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2/ In celebration of World Art Day 2025 and its evocative theme, "A Garden of Expression: Cultivating Community through Art," Africaniwa warmly invites you to a storytelling session like no other: Art Attack.
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