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Jennifer Bajorek is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Hampshire College, USA, and a Research Associate in the Faculty of Art, Design, and Architecture of the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. She writes and teaches on literature, philosophical aesthetics, and photography. Her essays on historical and contemporary photography have been published in Aperture, Autograph ABP (Association of Black Photographers), and History of Photography. Her art writing has appeared in exhibition catalogues and online in Africultures, Africa is a Country, and the Galerie du Jeu de Paume blog. Her most recent book, How to Write a Visual History of Liberation: Photography and Decolonial Imagination in Africa (forthcoming, Duke University Press) explores the relationship between photography and political imagination in francophone West Africa in the years immediately leading up to and following independence. She is, together with Erin Haney, co-founder and co-director of Resolution, a non-profit organization dedicated to photography and photography archives in Africa.