"[In Open City] Cole is sending signals that being African does not, should not, commit a writer to engaging with African themes. I was disappointed to see him present his personal story as an American one in a short video following the publication of Open City, but quickly realized that that was his story, after all. I can deal with that because I imagine that he knows what he is doing. He (or Julius?) is in New York. He knows Irewolede Denge as well as he knows Tomas Tranströmer. He is a scholar of Netherlandish art, but he must be aware of the itinerant Yoruba artist, Are Lagbayi who, as contexts go, was better traveled than Delft-bound Johannes Vermeer and produced his work in ex-ile, a maker of art as a gesture of perpetual departures."
- Akin Adesokan
- Akin Adesokan
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