Movies: Nnenna Onuoha

In the court of the Memory Guardians, a trial ensues about what to do with the statue of the Kneeling Woman, following her defacement in Zehlendorf and relocation to the Zitadelle Museum in Spandau. While one counsel advocates that the statue be publ...

In the Schloss Friedrichsfelde–a picturesque, neoclassical pleasure palace in North East Berlin–the ghosts of history begin to make themselves seen. Summoned by a syncretic Afro-Caribbean prayer ceremony, embodied spirits emerge and usher us through ...

For a generation of south-eastern Nigerians, photos of their childhoods, though absent from family albums, are omnipresent in humanitarian archives....

When The Great Erasure interrupts her reading of Dove’s story, The Black Girl goes in search of the author. After the Feminist Bookseller and Africanist Professor do not help her, she turns to The Revisionists, in whose cyberarchive she is able to lo...

A group of friends reminisce about their Ghanaian high school’s exchange trip to Jackson, Mississippi a decade earlier. The more they remember, the uncannier it becomes....

Three Afrodescendent women living in Berlin go through their wash day routines and rituals. As they care for their hair: choosing products, washing, detangling, braiding, cutting, dyeing etc. they discuss how their relationship to it has changed over...

Nnenna Onuoha's essayistic video work Entwicklungsland — Revisited (2025) engages with the 1975 BBC educational film Developing Country Ghana: Life in the City. Through conversations with the protagonists portrayed at the time and their current persp...