African Film Institute: Feza Kayungu Ramazani on Lumumba and Centre d'art Waza

About this episode

The episode features a discussion on African cinema and arts education following a screening of the film Lumumba.

This episode was recorded live at e-flux on September 19, 2024. The event, hosted by the African Film Institute , featured a screening of Lumumba (2000, 115 minutes) by Haitian director Raoul Peck , followed by a conversation between Feza Kayungu Ramazani of Centre D'art Waza and anthropologist Natacha Nsabimana . Feza Kayungu Ramazani is an artist and researcher based in Lubumbashi. She is a member of the Power to the Commons project and Another Roadmap of Arts Education Africa Cluster (ARAC), which is a network of researchers and practitioners engaged in collaborative research revisiting the history, politics, and alternative practices in arts education through literature. She is also curatorial assistant at École du soir, administrator of Centre d'art Waza, and a critical writer questioning images of African beauty and exoticism. Her research on African values, creativity, ancestral practices, and technology aligns with a desire to reinvent the conception and conservative function of museums in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Natacha Nsabimana teaches in the anthropology department at the university of Chicago. Her research and teaching interests include postcolonial…

People in this episode

Host: African Film Institute

Guest: Feza Kayungu Ramazani

Topics covered

• African cinema
• postcolonial critique
• arts education
• cultural politics
• African beauty

Keywords

• African Film Institute
• Feza Kayungu Ramazani
• Natacha Nsabimana
• Lumumba
• arts education
• postcolonial critique
• African beauty

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Centre D'art Waza

Books & works: Lumumba

Places: Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo, New York

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