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
Work that travels— across continents, disciplines, and the stories that shape us.
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A short film feature profiling Jonah Batambuze and his Shoreditch exhibition challenging outdated stereotypes around Black masculinity.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.
The News Minute
Co-opting African music, erasing Black lives: How anti-Black racism persists in India
Featuring commentary by Jonah Batambuze on Afro–Indian relations, cultural appropriation, and the lived realities of Black communities across India.
A Yellow Rebellion
A ritual of memory: Jonah revisits his grandfather’s yellow Toyota, a quiet rebellion under colonial rule, and the lineage of movement it set in motion.
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Art Fairs, Ancestors, and That White Woman in the Trees
In this Basel field note, Jonah Batambuze moves through Liste’s polished anonymity and Africa Basel’s grounded presence, tracing a rupture that exposes who still holds power in “inclusive” spaces. Through encounters with diaspora kin, Odur Ronald’s aluminum forms, and a public interruption that reverberates across histories, the piece asks: Who is Africa for, and who decides who belongs?