Beya Othmani

Art

Fela Kefi Leroux, Embracing Blackness at the First World Festival of Black Arts

Beya Othmani presents an exhibition on artist Fela Kefi Leroux's participation in the 1966 festival in Dakar and offers insight into her curatorial process.

Art

How North Africans Negotiated Blackness at the Dakar 1966 First Black Arts Festival

Hundreds of artists, writers, and intellectuals convened at the First World Festival of Black Arts in apparent harmony, but it was also a stage for contradictions and paradoxes to be unpacked.