Afri-tectural Digest
A space for thinking deeply about home. Afri-tectural Digest explores homes as memory, resistance and joy. Rooted in Black home life, it is relevant for anyone curious about deeper, ancestral ways of living and how they can apply to today.
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Move over Scandi chic - welcome to Cottage Noir (opens the original)
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Move over Scandi chic- welcome to Cottage Noir - certainly a clickbait-y title, but the one selected by The Sunday Times for an essay of mine they recently published to mark the arrival of my book House Proud, Black Interiors and Architecture Across Continents and Centuries.I have complicated feelings about the British press, but press coverage is certainly a dance you have to dance if you want to get your work “out there” and into the mainstream. And I can’t deny that it was thrilling to see my
Are we really 'our ancestors wildest dreams'? (opens the original)
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We’ve all seen and maybe even purchased the t-shirts, mugs or posters proudly proclaiming, “You Are Your Ancestors Wildest Dreams”. I certainly have, inwardly smiling at the thought of an ancestor looking down at me saying ‘you go Kemi, standing on my shoulders, doing the thing’. <div class="image2-inset"
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