The Archive of Forgetfulness is LIVE at https://t.co/oro0PtVbFq The online platform is an archive of mobility and infrastructure; it holds together acts of remembering; and it is a collaborative project long in the making.

Join us tomorrow both in-person & online | 1PM SAST | A conversation with @HudaTayob & Bongani Kona on @AOForgetfulness 📍 HUMA Seminar Room | Humanities Building Register to attend online:

Applications are now open for UTA-Do African Cities Workshop (Jan, 2024). This year, we are in Dar. Scholars, artists and activists, apply!

(2/2) The conversation will be followed by a DJ set by @nombusomathibel. The @AOForgetfulness project brings into conversation the work of 56 artists, cultural producers, curators and researchers from the African continent & beyond. Reserve your seat:

(1/2) LAPA is thrilled to host the Archive of Forgetfulness book launch. An archive of mobility & infrastructure, the catalogue is a physical record with excerpts from the online exhibition platform @AOForgetfulness published by @JacanaMedia & supported by @goethejoburg.

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‘We question how thinking through deep and recent histories, across water or through the skies, might reveal alternative ways of living? And how dreams of freedom, and other worlds that might have been possible, haunt our present, and suggest other futures?

We are excited to hold a launch event for the Archive of Forgetfulness catalogue at LAPA in Brixton, published by @JacanaMedia . Join us for a conversation with contributors followed by a DJ set by Nombuso Mathibela @NombusoMat . Rsvp:

The project includes the work of fifty-six artists, cultural producers, curators, creative thinkers and researchers from the African continent and diaspora.

Archive of Forgetfulness was led by Huda Tayob, Bongani Kona, with 6 regional curators: Ali Al Adawy (Egypt), Eric Ngangare (Rwanda), Jumoke Sanwo (Nigeria), Omnia Shawkat (Sudan), Princess Mhlongo (South Africa) and Zoubida Mseffer (Morocco).

The Archive of Forgetfulness catalogue is now available @JacanaMedia - a print sampling of online exhibition, essay and podcast series online at https://t.co/oro0PtVbFq

Zoubida Mseffer is an independent consultant and coordinator of projects based in Morocco. She is interested in vulnerabilities and projects at the intersection of culture and creation, social sciences, and social action. @zoubidamseffer

The archive presented here is an attempt to hold onto fragments of Yasmin’s life, against forgetfulness.

Zoubida Mseffer began by retracing Yasmin’s journey through family archives, memories and interviews. She followed in the footsteps of Yasmin, to places she had known, and lived, in an attempt to fill in the gaps and silences left by holes in memories.

Regional Curator: Zoubida Mseffer Project Title: Yasmin Visit: https://t.co/oro0PtVbFq This project traces the history of Yasmin, a concubine and slave-wife to the curator, Zoubida Mseffer’s, great-grandfather.

The 6th Regional project curated by Zoubida Mseffer:

Curator - Ali Hussein al-Adawy is a curator, researcher, editor, writer and critic of moving images, urban artistic practices, and cultural history. @el_kontessa @M_Abdel_Karim

and the essay سمعنا من الواردين / “We heard from those who came before us”by Haitham Shater is accessible in Arabic and English online at

The video-art ‘I Almost Forgot The Roving Body...Let's Call It The Future’ by Mohamed AbdelKarim was screened at the Goethe-Institut Alexandria on the 29 September 2021; the concert performed by DJ El Kontessa took place live in Alexandria on the 27th October 2021;

The project includes 3 commissions: a video, a DJ set concert and an essay. These three works aim to stimulate discussion and debate, in order to question and dismantle authoritarian histories of the postcolonial state in the Egyptian context, as part of an African neighbourhood.

Regional Curator: Ali Al Adawy Project Title: When The Archive is Speculative, Fatigue with Visualizing the Future May Fade This project imagines a group of futurologists who draw futures based on speculative archives as opposed to ready-made and popular models.