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We are elated to announce our partnership with a n

We are elated to announce our partnership with a new and promising platform on the block, The Drill @thedrillorg, spearheaded by @troublesome_nerd who worked with us as our project manager from 2016 to 2020.
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In many ways, our aims and ideals align with this project, especially (but not limited to) where the platform aims to expand the esoteric confines of art practices in relation to education, community engagement and critical thinking.
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The Drill is a response to an art world that has gradually become a production-centric industry, that keeps on demanding so much from its practitioners, with little consideration for their wellbeing. As an alternative learning system, it is a clarion call to artists, creative directors, curators, cultural producers - all who work to continue to keep the ecosystem that is the art world running - by widening scope of knowledge in order to ensure sustainability.
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It’s first program (Drill #1: The Gathering) is a 5-hour online seminar taking place over the course of two days. All the facilitators of the workshop are professionals who have either excelled in balancing their art practice with the business of the art, or those from other fields (law, medicine and mental health) who are particularly interested in the arts and how art practitioners can build new capabilities to create sustainable lives. The current line-up of facilitators includes: Emeka Okereke (visual artist, founder and artistic director of Invisible Borders Trans-African Organisation), Claire Solery (founder of A Million Dots, Co-convener of MACAAL Bootcamp), Babjide Adeniyi-Jones (Visual Artist), Tobi Adebowale (Chairman, Governing Council of the Nigerian Bar Association Young Lawyers' Forum), Maria Kuzmina (Curator at New Tretyakov Gallery, Russia), Angel Yinkore (Founder of Welcome To Truth, Mental Health Lead of STER), Rasheda Nalumoso (Cultural Producer in Uganda), and Adewunmi Oluwaseun (Medical Doctor).
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The event will take place via Zoom on 4th and 5th July. For more info on how to join the event, see: https://www.thedrill.org
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#thedrill #webinar #transcendingborders

My friend, Adua, is quiet and has thick wooly hair

My friend, Adua, is quiet and has thick wooly hair irregular at the edges. Like a bad haircut. She is always sat at the corner of the classroom listening, sometimes absentmindedly. She rarely spoke to anyone and only responded to questions that were directed at her. Her mother was worried she would not make any friends here and asked me to look out for her, this stranger on her own first day of a new school. We became inseparable. ⁣
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The lawn tennis court came into fruition in our second year. She went for trials and stunned the class with how firm and audacious her grip was on the racket, how her eyes accurately caught the green ball hurtling at her in full speed time and time again. Adua is the best member of the team now and has led the school to two championships. I’m not her only friend anymore.⁣
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Tell us your stories at @ivisibleproject about humanising the borders that divide us. ⁣
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We are accepting submissions of photographs and stories from anyone anywhere creating within the context of Africa.⁣
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Visit our website ivisible.org to learn more. ⁣
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#africanphotographers #proudlyafrican#africanstories #invisibleborders#transcendingborders#obliteratingtheother #ivisibleproject#othering #africa
📸 Nengi Nelson

Excerpt from ‘A Substance of Things Unseen’ by

Excerpt from ‘A Substance of Things Unseen’ by @iam_kayugwuede for the 8th Edition of the Invisible Borders Trans-African Road Trip.
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To get to Cameroon, we have traveled 15 hours from Ikom to Yola; 3 hours from Yola to Limane speedboating via River Benue and stopping over at Barnake to stamp our passports; 4 hours to Garuoa; another 6 hours to Ngaoundere and 11 long hours to Yaounde.

My first perception of Cameroon is a sense of loss. At how to navigate a new place and all its stories without understanding a word of French. At the Goethe Institut in Yaounde with our guide Landry, and project manager, Innocent, I'm not sure what I am looking for.
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I look through the book shelves searching for anything that jumps out at me. A large percentage of the books are in German. The ones not in German are in French. I speak neither fluently enough to read books written in them. A short while after, I meet a tall slender young man who wears a perpetually serious expression while we talk. I tell him a little about our road trip and how we made it into Cameroon.
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He worked with the National Institute of Statistics he says, heading a research on the living standards of Cameroonians in the South-western region of the country. He tells me about abandoning the project with the onset of the Anglophone crisis. He tells me about living in Bamenda for 12 years and "knowing how they are living". When he talks about the living conditions his seriousness metamorphosed into an indignation. In an instant, his anger seems to have been replaced by pity and his voice is back to a mellow enthusiasm. He is waiting for an education fair to begin. He wants to study abroad where there more opportunities and have come to find out if there are scholarships here. He apologises for his English. I apolologize for my French. His English is way better than my French.
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Go to: store.invisible-borders.com to download e-copies of our Road Trip Chabook.
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#invisibleborders #transafricanproject #transcendingborders #writingsfromtheroad #kayugwuede

Reposted from our offspring project @ivisibleproje

Reposted from our offspring project @ivisibleproject
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The televised death of #georgefloyd on May 25, after a white police officer pressed his knee onto his neck while he pleaded for his life, has sparked a chain of unprecedented protests against #racism in the US and around the world. These are difficult times. In the middle of a deadly pandemic hundreds of thousands are risking their lives to address a 400-year old problem that established systems and institutions have refused to dismantle and continue to foster over and over and over again by their actions and inactions; knowingly or by mindful ignorance.
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As a project dedicated to championing the voices and stories of Africa and Africans, we are reaffirming our commitment to doing so unapologetically and substantively for the rest of the year.
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We apologize for the long pause with the #iVisible project and invite you, now more than ever, to help us amplify our voices and stories through photographs and writing. We thank those who have responded to our calls for submission and invite you to continue to share your stories with iVisible.
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Click the link in our bio to read about the project and our submission guidelines.
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#blacklivesmatter #iVisible #africa #transversingborders #africanstories #invisibleborders 📸: Boy by Boat by @bekexjj

A lot is going on in the world right now that remi

A lot is going on in the world right now that reminds us that there is sooo much work to be done. But also that we must remember to indulge in self-care by working together for our well-being, interests and priorities – even as we continue to strive for a better world for all.
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That said...are you motivated? Are you qualified? Do you want to do something meaningful with your time and your life regardless of where you are in the world? There is a place for you at Invisible Borders.
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Check out our volunteer page and apply for any of the listed position. See link in bio.
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Please help us make the recruiting process a joyful one by making sure that you really have what it takes to work with us before applying.
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This, of course, means that you must have read the details thoroughly, as well as researched our work before sending in your application.
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We welcome any questions you may have that would help you clarify your decision to apply.
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We look forward to meeting you
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#invisibleborders #callforvolunteers #transcendinghateandracism #transafricanproject

So, many people have been asking us how they could

So, many people have been asking us how they could get their hands on copies of our chapbooks.Bam Bam! Enter our online store!
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See link in bio to get a digital copy of all ten chapbooks grouped into 3 collections. And oh...for a token fee.
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We like to make a point that ours is not a travel journal. They are reflections on encounters – our way of articulating the psychology of those parts of the African continent we’ve literally set foot on.
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Finally, remember our call for volunteers is on.See this link for more:https://invisible-borders.com/about/volunteer/
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Hope you enjoy the essays!
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#invisibleborders #IBchapbooks #transcendingborders #thetransafricanproject #since2009 #joinus