The time has come for re-thinking sexualities in Africa: The thinking beyond the conceptual structure of colonial and even post-colonial European imaginations, which have oscillated between notions of the exotic, the noble and the depraved savage, consistently however constructing Africans and African sexuality as something 'other'. This 'other' thing is constructed to be not only different from European/Western sexualities and self, but also functions to co-construct that which is European/Western as modern, rational and civilized.

Voltbot: 'WE HAVE PREPARED YOU, STRIPPED YOU OF YOUR WEAK STEAMBOT SHELL. YOU ARE ALREADY MORE PART OF US THAN YOU ARE YOURSELF. BZZT WE WILL BE INVINCIBLE! THE VOLTBOT WILL RISE AND RULE.'

Holy shit! Those things barely look powerful enough to run Oregon Trail, much less Earth-ending weaponry. People who work there must watch WarGames and go “One day, one day, we’ll get to play with that stuff.”

This wasn’t so problematic at first: exhaustion actually suits Christopher Wheeldon’s “Klavier,” a dark exploration of the moment when opulence overripens to decadence.