SUNU means our in Wolof.

 

SUNU Journal is a collective, Pan-African platform for cultivating and archiving ideas concerning global Blackness across multiple forms + themes.

 

 

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Malcolm Teferi Sow

Malcolm Teferi Sow

Caleb Prah

Caleb Prah

Ousmane Sow

Ousmane Sow

Lloyd Foster

Lloyd Foster

 
Nyareeta Gach

Nyareeta Gach

Ify Chiejina

Ify Chiejina

Yodith Dammlash

Yodith Dammlash

 

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The Book of Jasmine (2017)Dir. Melanie Grant

The Book of Jasmine (2017)

Dir. Melanie Grant

Pieta (2016)Dir. Melanie Grant

Pieta (2016)

Dir. Melanie Grant

 

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A Pan-African repository of archival + contemporary material#SUNUjournal #SUNUnotes

A Pan-African repository of archival + contemporary material

#SUNUjournal #SUNUnotes

Image of Congolese novelist, playwright and poet, Tchicaya U Tam’si, during an interview with Jean Claude Courdy in 1986. U Tam’si was born Gérald-Félix Tchicaya in 1931 in present-day Congo-Brazzaville (The Republic of Cong
Leading jazz pianist Duke Ellington was born on this day, April 29th in 1899. In April 1966, he performed during the First World Festival of Negro Arts (FESMAN). In honor of the festival, Ellington composed and the piece “La Plus Belle Africain
Photographs taken before and during the African Society of African Culture (AMSAC) Festival in Lagos, Nigeria held on December 18-19, 1961 Photo 1: The Nigerian National Football team arriving in Lagos from Rome, December 14th 1961 Photo 2: Nina Si
On this day, April 27th in 1960, Togo gained independence from France. Portraits from Togolese photo studios Jolie-Bébé (images 1 + 2) and Studio Clément Fumey (images 3+4). #SUNUnotes #SUNUjournal
Celebrated and leading Ethiopian modern artist, Afewerk Tekle, in his studio in 1955. Images 3 and 4 feature two of Tekle’s portrait sitters. Photographs by Alfred Eisenstaedt for LIFE magazine. Courtesy of the LIFE Photo Collection. #SUNUnote
Rest In Peace to actor, singer and civil rights activist, Harry Belafonte, who passed at the age of 96. Photograph of Harry Belafonte with Miriam Makeba, as featured in the documentary film Harry Belafonte: Sing Your Song (2011), dir. Susanne Rostoc
Three literary figures, from left to right: Nigerian novelist, poet + critic, Chinua Achebe; American novelist, essayist, playwright + orator, James Baldwin; Cameroonian writer, musician + composer, Francis Bebey. The photo was taken during the 1980
Remembering + honoring the late Kenyan environmentalist, activist, author, and Nobel Prize laureate, Wangari Maathai, on this Earth Day. Maathai was instrumental in fighting for environmental rights and conversation in Kenya, and for the rights of

 

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#SUNUjournal #SUNUnotes

 

 

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