Cotton Blues by Edem Awumey

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Cotton Blues by Edem Awumey

At a museum in an unnamed African city, librarian turned cotton farmer turned security guard Toby Kunta takes a hostage — a freelance journalist originally from this country, now based in Berlin. Toby begins to destroy the gallery’s photographs — which he considers a colonial misrepresentation of the local peasants, staged for the European gaze — and threatens to burn the journalist to death. In exchange for the release of his hostage, he demand…