On African Opera. A Conversation with Anawana Haloba

In this conversation with Afterall editors, artist Anawana Haloba discusses her research into African operatic traditions and philosophy, as manifested in her experimental opera How to (re)pair my Grandmother’s Basket (2021). Conceiving of ‘re-pair’ as a way of setting things together in their relationality, Haloba seeks to recuperate traditions that were ‘epistemologically disenfranchised’ following the rupture of colonialism.