Kouoh said that she decided to take the job after many conversations with Black colleagues. Kouoh has changed “how the local community see Zeitz,” said the Cape Town-based artist Igshaan Adams, who recently spent eight months in residence there. What influences come from an artist like Issa Samb or Gerard Sekoto to younger artists today? “There is a lot of mutual support, of generosity and care across the continent. I am part of that generation of African art professionals who have pride and knowledge about the beauty of African culture, which has often been defined by others in so many wrong ways.

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