Project Description

Lilia Kilburn

Portrait of Lilia Kilburn

FSC-Harvard Fellow 2024-25, 2025-26

Lilia Kilburn is a doctoral candidate in anthropology and critical media practice at Harvard. She works on and with artistic attempts to illuminate histories of extraction that link the United States and Central Africa, and to imagine forms of solidarity and co-creation that could oppose the ecological and political devastation occurring in the contested region of Ambazonia.

FSC Works

film still, Cinema nyanga njangi

Cinema nyanga njangi

Lilia Kilburn

Cinema nyanga njangi traces the edges of a contested region, variably called Southern Cameroons (after the British colony it once was), Anglophone Cameroon (because it houses Cameroon’s English-speaking minority) or Ambazonia (by separatists who seek its statehood). A group of artists tries to practice the principles of njangi (collective decision-making and resource-sharing) in their efforts to reflect the territory’s nyanga (beauty / style / grace).