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Their common history provides an indispensable background to discussions of what has been called the contemporary past – modernity considered as an open problem rather than a closed historical period

Cristina de Middel - This is What Hatred Did Clouds music and the page slot"This is what hatred did" is the lapidary phrase that ends Amos Tutuolas novel My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. When it was published in 1954, the novel provoked such violent reactions that Tutuola was obliged to leave Nigeria. Its concluding phrase is the starting point for photographer Cristina de Middel's interpretation of the tenebrous story, based in the streets of Makoko, a watery slum in the city of Lagos in Nigeria where spirits coexist