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Themes for thought:

• What does being modern in Sub-Saharan Africa entail?
• How is the concept of modernity understood south of the Sahara?
  Parallel, hybrid and alternative African modernities, or “modernity is somewhere else”
• What is the meaningful way to observe Sub-Saharan Africa in the context of the “postmodern condition”?
  What do “post” theories and insights tell us about African modernities
• How does the Sub-Saharan context affect the vernacularisation of key modern ideas, aesthetics and frameworks?
  Problems of translation, glocalisation and hybridisation in Sub-Saharan worlds
• The birth of vernacular cosmopolitanism: the global Touba.

The talks are part of the “Contexts and Representations” programme conceptualised by Ana Sladojević.
Program coordinator at the Museum is Emilia Epštajn