dialogue Zimbabwe Mobilizes ICAC’s Shift from Coup de Grâce to Cultural Coup Ruth Simbao, Raphael Chikukwa, Jimmy Ogonga, Berry Bickle, Marie Hélène Pereira, Dulcie Abrahams Altass, Mhoze Chikowero, and N’Goné Fall Ruth Simbao is a…

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The Case of the Recurring Wodaabe Visual Obsessions in Globalizing Markets Corinne A. Kratz The Wodaabe people of the Sahel have been the subject of over seventeen documentary films— indeed, in both 1988 and 2007,…

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Provocative Acts and Censorial Revisions The Many Antagonisms of Amal Kenawy’s The Silence of Lambs Dan Jakubowski By the time I saw Amal Kenawy’s video The Silence of Lambs in Queens, 纽约, 在…

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Ancestors and Elders Personal Reflections of an Africanist Art Historian Robin Poynor My research in Owo, 尼日利亚, revealed to me three broad ways ancestors were remembered there. In the ako ceremony hundreds of pieces of…

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first word Situating Africa An Alter-geopolitics of Knowledge, or Chapungu Rises Ruth Simbao Only when universities on the continent fully recover and take their rightful—and leading— role in the production of African scholarly knowledge will…

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exhibition preview The Inner Eye Vision and Transcendence in African Arts Mary Nooter Roberts “THE INNER EYE: VISION AND TRANSCENDENCE IN AFRICAN ARTS” CURATED BY MARY NOOTER ROBERTS LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART RESNICK…

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“Relations Between Thoughts and Hands”1 Expressive Themes of African Arts Allen F. Roberts After fifty years of uninterrupted publication, African Arts is venerable by any measure. Given how sadly shorter-lived most human- ities journals have…

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“This House Is Not for Sale” Nollywood’s Spatial Politics and Concepts of “Home” in Zina Saro-Wiwa’s Art Nomusa Makhubu In Lagos, it is common to come upon houses with the hand-painted sign: “this house is…

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“The Models for Africa” Accra’s Independence-Era Fashion Culture and the Creations of Chez Julie Christopher Richards On January 14, 1961, a fashionably dressed young Ghanaian woman was photo- graphed arriving at the Accra airport (如图….

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Selling Authenticity in the Bamum Kingdom in 1929–1930 Jonathan Fine Note: Due to a last-minute copy-editing error, this article went to press with the ethnonym “Bamum” spelled (inconsistently) “Bamun.” Fine’s preferred spelling is “Bamum,“ 和…

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