Africa Does Not Know Me
By Rumbi Makanga I cannot help but spend time thinking about my identity. Finding yourself immersed in a culture that is at the same time…
Travel
A Journey from France to the River Maroni: An interview/ photo essay with William Barylo
Tommy Evans meets fellow postgraduate researcher and creative William Barylo to discuss his photographic documentary chronicling the lives and culture of the Bushinengue people, descendants of…
Notes from a Swedish Summer
By Nina N. Yeboah One could spend an entire hour roaming the streets of Södermalm in search of a good pastry shop and come…
Midnight Love (Finale): The Marvin Gaye Tour of Ostend, Belgium.
The whole ‘Midnight Love’ album sounds like a haunted landscape when you walk around the place it was written, listening to it. You hear…
Midnight Love (Part 7): The Marvin Gaye Tour of Ostend, Belgium.
Further along the colonnade was Cafe De Floride, an old haunt of Marvin’s where, according to one of the barmen he would always bring…
Midnight Love (Part 6): The Marvin Gaye Tour of Ostend, Belgium.
Marvin also loved to jog by the beach, and the tour moved me to his favourite spot, and thoroughly into Leopold stomping ground. I…
Midnight Love (Part 5): The Marvin Gaye Tour of Ostend, Belgium.
For true art to appear, the artist has to disappear, detaching himself from ego and status, but also from the pressure to achieve anything…
Midnight Love (Part 4): The Marvin Gaye Tour of Ostend, Belgium.
Having heard horror stories from England about Gaye’s cocaine use and erratic behaviour on tour (he’d frequently miss gigs and was even late for…
Midnight Love (Part 3): The Marvin Gaye Tour of Ostend, Belgium.
I made my way to the tourist information centre, where I was given headphones and an iPhone with a built-in app called ‘The Marvin…
Midnight Love (Part 2): The Marvin Gaye Tour of Ostend, Belgium.
The train pulled into Ostend station, a building that in many ways represents what lies beyond it: pale and ornate, but not pretty, clean…