Guyana - Nsenga Knight

The Power of Returning Home: Art, Memory, and Belonging

Three brown-skin hijabi women at a dining room table eating Caribbean food. The dining room table is in front of a wall that is decorated with wallpaper that it topaz and has blue and pink lotus flowers and several photos and artworks featuring Black Muslims from the United States, Sudan and Egypt, including Malcolm X and Lynn Hope in turbans.

Two years ago, I returned from my first trip to Guyana — my mother’s homeland. Nearly a year later, I began creating Metem, a film that I knew would be about more than documenting my family’s journey back. In fact, you never actually see Guyana as a place in the film. Instead, Metem unfolds through memory, food, andContinue reading “The Power of Returning Home: Art, Memory, and Belonging”

Art, Archives and Intimacy: Reclaiming Our Legacy and Telling Our Own Story

An exploration of intimacy, inheritance, and Black archival practices through Malcolm X, motherhood, oral histories, and the power of personal storytelling.

GUYANA HERE I COME!

The USA has been experiencing record-breaking heat but, and his might sound strange, because I lived in Egypt for six years, as a result I developed a high tolerance for heat and if it’s not above 95 degrees I don’t really feel it. It wasn’t always this way for me, but it’s amazing how our bodies can adapt toContinue reading “GUYANA HERE I COME!”