Press
“The table remembers. The hand refuses. The mouth reclaims.”
— Art Africa, 2025. Image: Speaking at Manthan India, Hyderabad — a leading forum for public debate.
📰 Selected Press
Coverage from global outlets across culture, politics, and the arts.
Art Africa
The Table Remembers: Jonah Batambuze on Ritual, Refusal and the Left Hand
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The Emancipator
How community media is resisting erasure and building solidarity in the face of backlash
Includes insights from Jonah Batambuze, founder of The Blindian Project, on global Black-South Asian storytelling as cultural infrastructure.
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Psychology Today
Demystifying Black and Brown Love
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Homegrown India
Reconciling With Love: How The Blindian Project Is Reducing Stigma Around Black-Indian Couples
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The Times of India
‘Black on Wed, desi on Thurs’: Why attack on Harris feels so personal for Blindians
Explores the emotional and cultural resonance of Kamala Harris’s identity for the Blindian community, featuring commentary from Jonah Batambuze.
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🎙️ In Conversation
Talks, interviews, and public reflections.
ITV London
Redefining Black Masculinity
A short film feature profiling Jonah Batambuze and his Shoreditch exhibition challenging outdated stereotypes around Black masculinity. Through visual storytelling, the work reclaims softness, nuance, and multidimensional identity in public space.
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BBC World News
Blindian Project: Celebrating Black x South Asian Relationships
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Revolutionary Voices w/ Sonali Fiske
Power, Love, and Cultural Refusal
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Stories Seldom Told – with Smitha Tharoor
Jonah Batambuze discusses cultural expectations, intimacy, and the origins of the Blindian Project, reflecting on love across Black and South Asian communities.
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Manthan India
Black x Brown Love Can Help Change the World
In this talk, Jonah Batambuze reflects on how Black x Brown relationships offer a radical blueprint for healing across race, religion, and the colonial wounds that still divide us. Hosted by Manthan India, the conversation explores love as both personal resistance and collective strategy.
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✍️ Selected Writing
Essays, reflections, and ritual fragments from a practice built on memory, rupture, and return.
A Yellow Rebellion
In this personal essay, Jonah Batambuze traces the legacy of his grandfather—a Ugandan magistrate whose yellow Toyota became a symbol of defiance, dignity, and movement under colonial rule. Through vivid memory, archival detail, and intergenerational storytelling, the piece becomes both tribute and blueprint: how one man’s presence behind the wheel rewrote the rules of who gets to move, and why.
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Art Fairs, Ancestors, and That White Woman in the Trees
In this Basel field note, Jonah Batambuze moves through the polished anonymity of Liste, the intentional grounding of Africa Basel, and a rupture that lays bare who still holds power in “inclusive” spaces. Weaving encounters with diaspora kin, Ugandan sculptor Odur Ronald’s aluminum testaments, and a public interruption that echoes across histories, the reflection asks: Who is Africa for? Who decides who belongs? And what happens when we walk in anyway?