Akané Okoshi
akané okoshi writes about art, film, and material history.
Tayo Giwa’s The Sun Rises in the East
By Akané OkoshiUhuru Sasa Shule, which translates to “Freedom Now School” in Kiswahili, was the heartbeat of The East, a Brooklyn-based organization founded in 1969 by Black people committed to self-determination, social justice, and diasporic world-building.
In Conversation
Cauleen Smith with akané okoshi
Shot on 16mm by interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker Cauleen Smith, Drylongso (1998) is a tender yet unflinching dispatch from 1990s Oakland.
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