Ownership
[exception] Mercury Descending – Fact-ional narratives of the Franc CFA
Nina Støttrup Larsen
Myth vs math. Steal vs stealth. Fiction vs fact-ion. What does it mean when the currency used in fourteen African states is printed, managed and governed by their former colonial ruler? How does that mutate and conflate the narratives of sovereignty for the so-called post-colonies? Can we look at the act of (im-)printing the currency as a continuous moment of re-inscribing a colonial ideology of power? By looking at infrastructure localities, sovereign exceptions reveal themselves as cracks in a carefully governed historic veneer and map out a different fact-ion through which to understand the current coloniality.