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Tavia Nyong'o

is a Kenyan-American cultural critic, historian and performance studies scholar. He is currently an Associate Professor of Performance Studies at New York University and the author of The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory.

Essays & Reviews

Nairobi in the Age of the World Target

By Tavia Nyong'oSeptember 30, 2013
There is no longer anywhere “off the grid;” you are always on someone’s grid, and you are never far from someone’s battlefield
Essays & Reviews

The Oceanic Feeling

By Tavia Nyong'oOctober 19, 2012
Channel Orange isn’t Frank Ocean’s coming out. It’s a tidal wave crashing down
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