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Invisible Borders Trans-African Photographic Initiative: African Artists Transcending borders. Retweet is endorsement!

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The hibernation is over. We are gearing up for the long stretch ahead. Join us from wherever you are in the world. If you are looking to make the next big thing happen, you now know where to start.

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Beauty in the Wilderness #Glimpesoftheroad #whispersofthewilderness #invisibleborders

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Namibia #whispersofthewilderness #photosfromtheroad #invisibleborders

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Maun: Emeka and Thero taking portraits of and engaging the residents at Maun #photosfromtheroad #whispersofthewilderness #invisibleborders

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Road trip from Maun to Shakawe #photosfromtheroad #whispersofthewilderness #invisibleborders

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Can you hear the whispers too?
#whispersofthewilderness

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Invisible Borders at the Maun National Museum. Here Emeka is speaking and photographing Ikanyeng who doubles as a museum attendant and a retailer.

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On wanderings, exploring and whispering to the wilderness. This is Thero photographing Wena yesterday. (Location: outside Maun Educational Park)

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The aim is to form critical views of the Delta as we prepare to make remarkable encounters and create works in the process.

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Day 1: We started the day by visiting a research facility for the Okavango Delta where we watched a film, “Into the Okavango”, by National Geographic Society.

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Our Artists for the Whispers of Wildernesses project are a gathering of brilliance and beautiful story telling. Anticipate!

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world at large. Emeka Okereke is a 2020 – 2022 Jane Lombard Fellow at the Vera List Centre, New York. He is also a visiting scholar/lecturer at Indiana University Bloomington, USA and the University of Arts (UDK) Berlin.

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Emeka Okereke is a Nigerian visual artist and scholar who lives and works between Lagos and Berlin
A past member of the renowned Nigerian photography collective Depth of Field (DOF), he holds a bachelor’s/master’s degree from the Ecole Nationale supérieure des Beaux Arts de Paris

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In 2018, Emeka Okereke was conferred France’s prestigious insignia of Chevalier dans l’ordre des Arts et Lettres (Knight in the Order of Arts and Letters) by the Ministry of Culture of France as recognition of his contribution to the discourse
on art in Africa France, and the

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geographies. She enjoys revelling in mundane moments —laughing with her family, going to the beach with friends, dancing and attempting to bike. Lastly, she finds consolation in mutually lamenting the frequent heat waves and harsh sun of South-East Botswana with neighbours.

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Kea Mosienyane
born and raised in botswana, currently an MPhil Candidate at the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. She also holds a BA in Interdisciplinary Studies from the University of British Columbia, Canada. Keamogetse’s writing pursuits

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are influenced by the process of encounter and duration — through memory, conversation, experience and research. Keamogetse’s research interests include thinking with infrastructures of landing for migrants and the urban politics of pleasure and discard across Southern African

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Fine Arts in partnership with the Tierney Fellowship Foundation. In 2020, he was selected as a finalist in the 2020 edition of the Blurring the Lines competition conducted by the Paris College of Art.

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Thero Makepe is an artist and photographer born and raised in Botswana, currently working between Cape Town, Johannesburg, and Gaborone. Makepe’s work is informed by past and present narratives about his upbringing and lived experiences in Botswana and South Africa.

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He is also a founding member of the Botswana Pavilion, a collective of young artists from Botswana concerned with advancing Botswana’s creative development and artistic archive. Makepe recently completed his Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art with distinction at the Michaelis School of