Published a year before the release of his monumental video piece, Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death, 2016 this pamflet, My Black Death, 2015, is part of the series On the Blackness of BLACKNUSS, initiated by the Moor’s Head Press of BLACKNUSS: books and other relics. Over 19 pages, Jafa explores the complexity of Black aesthetics in relation to his own experiences – as a ten-year-old child watching Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey to working as a cinematographer on the set of Eyes Wide Shut – and more critically about the adaptation of Black culture in Europe and beyond.