A caravan crossing the dunes at dusk

In development

In the Wake of Yesterday

Hubert Bals Fund Development Support 2026

In a drought-governed Sahelian settlement where belonging is a matter of record, the archive's designated successor refuses to falsify her own record and is exiled into the desert, where she discovers the system she was trained to maintain has been operating far beyond the village that built it.

In a drought-governed Sahelian settlement, a young archivist's refusal to falsify her own record sends her beyond the limits of the world she was trained to preserve.

Ochre architecture in Dandaji
A restrained earthen interior
A corridor shaped by light and shadow

Hikma Complex, Dandaji. Photography by James Wang.

Dandaji corridor

Babatunde Apalowo

Writer / Director

Babatunde Apalowo is a Nigerian writer-director whose formally restrained work explores intimacy, belonging, and systems of control.