Ernest Cole

Oumar Cherif Diop

Accross four sections - Interviews, Novels, Films and Tributes - the work of Ousmene Sembene is contextualised in both the worlds of post colonial literature and African film.

Writer, Filmmaker, and Revolutionary Artist

Ousmane Sembene

Struan Robertson

Ivor Powell

"Ernest Cole (1940-1990) believed passionately in his mission to tell the world in photographs what it was like and what it meant to be black under apartheid. He identified intimately with his own people in photographs of unsurpassed strength and gravitas. With imaginative daring, courage and compassion, he portrayed the full range of experience of black people as they negotiated their lives through the insanity of apartheid and its racist laws and oppression. In order to publish his book, House of Bondage, Cole went into exile. Immediately after it came out in 1967, it was banned in South Africa and this major critique of apartheid has hardly been seen in his own country since. Cole died in New York in 1990 after more than 23 years of painful exile, never having returned to South Africa and leaving no known negatives and few prints of his monumental work. Tio fotografer, an association of photographers with whom Cole worked from 1969 to 1975 when his place of residence was Stockholm, received a collection of his prints and these were later donated to the Hasselblad Foundation. These extremely rare prints, most of them made by Cole himself and most never previously exhibited, form the core of this exhibition and book. This book tells the story of Ernest Cole's life, both in his own words and through the reminiscences and writings of those people who knew him personally and professionally." -- Back cover.

Photographer

Theorizing The Disfigured Body explores the mutilated body as signifier of possession, control and domination. It examines the interconnections between the wound and the identity of the individual and affirms that wounding is naming. This book uses war memoirs and journalistic narratives published between 1991 and 2001, in addition to personal testimonies of victims to foreground the author's argument of the body as signifier.

Mutilation, Amputation, and Disability in Post-conflict Sierra Leone

Theorizing the Disfigured Body

Thomas Flaherty

The oppression suffered by blacks in South Africa is compellingly reported in text and photographs.

House of Bondage

Eustace Palmer

With several literary awards to his name and a skillset that excels in both poetry and prose, Syl Cheney-Coker is often regarded as one of the most exciting and distinguished writers to have emerged from Africa in recent years. Taking his influence from Africa, Latin America and Europe, he consistently produces complex, popular, but often misunderstood works. The book consists of illuminating interviews with Cheney-Coker, and a number of essays which analyse Cheney-Coker's influences and the cultural consequences of his work.

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