Djolifon

Djolifon is an invitation to probe in and beyond the wilderness of radical political imaginaries in our individual and collective investigation(s) of what else is possible in response to the multifaceted crises of our time.

Djolifon is an African feminist initiative that nurtures and inspires the emergence and stimulation of aesthetics and artistry, bearers of the otherwise. As a political home and an intermediary feminist fund, Djolifon seeks to bring forth forms of creativity and activism that embrace the sensuality of the impossible and are comfortable with uncertainties, failures, and limitations, especially ideas and practices that bring the ways of the small, the slow, the “inefficient,” the “irrational,” and above all, the invisible and the unthinkable in artistic and political imaginations and endeavor. 

Offerings: 

A pop-up-traveling space, Koso invites womxn artists, independent feminist activists, and non-conventional groups in French-speaking Africa to slow down and make dangerous choices—of (un)learning to live, create, lead, play, organize—outside the convenience of business-as-usual in the wilds of uncertainty, limitation, and possibility (including the possibility of failing). By our fifth year, Koso will have shape-shifted into a permanent retreat center in a West African country.

Koso, the heart of our experiments, is a space of (un)learning, creating, and testing other and othered possibilities and potentialities in and of activism.

Through Kisɛw, we mobilize and provide fund in support of the creativities, political imaginaries, and work of  womxn artists, independent young feminist activists, and non-conventional groups forging other modes of engagement and responses to emerging and ongoing issues. Kisɛw  primarily supports artists and activists whose pioneering work does not neatly fit into the criteria of mainstream funding institutions either because they are deemed too insignificant and/or risky to fund.  

Our podcast, is Djolifon’s approach to documenting and archiving the richness of African feminists, artisans, and artists’ praxis. A space for encounters and re-encounters, sharing, and reflection, Kan-Tigui invites conversations that explore both the complexities of our era and the richness of artistic expression and diversity of feminist activisms, while seeking to expand ideas and celebrate the beauty of dialogue and human connection. Each episode is a conversation with an African or Black feminist activist and/or artist from the continent or the diaspora.