Multimodal memories

Exile and memory from East Africa to the United Kingdom and back again.

Zuhair Mehrali in Sketches 2017.

Zuhair Mehrali is an East African artist of Indian descent living in Birmingham in the United Kingdom during the Brexit era. His project, Sketches, is an award-winning and groundbreaking multimodal digital experience exploring fascism, identity, and transnationalism. Sketches combines charcoal sketches, interviews, media clips, and film. In an effort to understand this project and Mehrali’s goals in creating it, I interviewed him and include his responses in full below.

About the Interviewee

Zuhair Mehrali is an East African artist of Indian descent living in Birmingham.

About the Interviewer

Liz Timbs is a postdoctoral teaching fellow in African History at North Carolina State University. She is a contributing editor at Africa is a Country.

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