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In her work, Southern African artist Dineo Seshee Bopape structures narratives through material and immaterial presences. For the eighth and final iteration of Para | Fictions, Bopape takes cues from author James Baldwin, who is known for his lyrical prose and writings on the complexity of social and psychological pressures of race, sexuality and acceptance. Bopape presents an installation that meditates upon recorded pre-colonial revolts and acts of resistance against European invasion in Africa.

It is often and commonly believed that the African continent was colonized without much fight or …