Unfixed: Photography and Decolonial Imagination in West Africa

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By Jennifer Bajorek ’92

Published Feb. 6, 2020

Unfixed: Photography and Decolonial Imagination in West Africa (Duke University Press) tells the fascinating photographic story of West Africa in the flurry of years surrounding independence from French colonial rule in 1960. Jennifer Bajorek ’92, through photographic analysis and ethnographic research, argues that photography’s vital role in the region’s democratization shows it has the capacity to perform decolonial work.

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