Crooked Lanes was launched in 2016 as a storytelling platform committed to profiling creative voices and lived experiences. A decade later, we return with a renewed vision and a deeper question:
How do we interrogate creative work, across galleries, archives, and everyday spaces, to understand what it truly says about us and our time?
This iteration of Crooked Lanes serves as a platform for thoughtful engagement. We are interested in interpretation rather than promotion, reflection rather than reaction. Through articles, essays, visual storytelling, conversations, and archival work, we explore art, memory, and imagination as ways of understanding African lives, histories, and possible futures.
We pay attention to the in-between spaces: the process behind the work, the histories that shape it, the silences it carries, and the futures it gestures toward. Our writing moves across exhibitions, films, performances, books, oral histories, and creative practice, not to review them, but to ask what they reveal.
Crooked Lanes exists as a record and a conversation. A space to think slowly, to remember deliberately, and to imagine responsibly.
This is our way of saying: we were here, we were paying attention, and the work mattered.
