About

Found Reviewing is Eyram A. Agbe’s ongoing project to explore and document Black and African visual cultures. I’m going to stop talking in third person here.

In 2021, I took a class at York University called African Popular Culture and fell in love with African culture anew. I was intrigued that people were critically studying the various cultures I grew up around, and wanted to do that kind of work too. The term paper for that class was my entryway to King Ampaw’s work, and while doing research for that assignment, I realized that there were few cultural workers critically dissecting Black films and media online and with a wide reach. Most of the pages I found were archival or comedic in nature – important but nothing like what I was looking for.

Two degrees later, I decided to take up that helm. My day-to-day work involves studying how to make urban transportation infrastructure better and part of my methodology for understanding how to do so involves visual methods. Found Reviewing, then, felt natural as I love movies, love to talk a lot about things that excite me, and love to unpack how space is made manifest and interrogated in visual media. I thought back to my experiences in 2021 with looking for pages like this and decided to be what 2021 me was looking for.

While my Instagram and TikTok pages feature short-form videos that range from my challenge to watch one film from every country in Africa to details on how I find and watch Black films, this website features interviews with artists, essays, and reflections from my engagement with Black film and visual media.

I hope this website is a valuable resource, and that you walk away with a (renewed) sense of admiration for the vibrant art being done by Black people around the world. Enjoy!