In the latest issue of Inside art Martina Esposito interviews Johanne Affricot and Eric Otieno Sumba of SPAZIO GRIOT. The conversation explores the SPAZIO GRIOT artist residency and the Second Congress of Black Writers and Artists - held in Rome in 1959 - and its legacies; the importance of networks, communities, and relationships with international institutions such as Villa Medici and the American Academy in Rome; the research and artistic production of the residents; Italian colonialism and language