Mémoire Matérielle: Gaëlle Choisne, Joana Choumali, Andile Dyalvane and Carla Gueye. Curated by Azu Nwagbogu and Nkhensani Mkhari.

In 1932, writing in Paris at the heart of what would become the Négritude movement, Paulette Nardal argued that consciousness is not inherited passively but built — constructed through deliberate effo…