... This monographic study examines the oeuvre of Nigerian-British photographer Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1956–89) in light of his posthumous Communion series. Where the artist’s choice of the black male nude as his primary subject was narrowly interpreted in terms of identity, close reading of Fani...

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... in African sculpture and asks us to theorize anew a lineage of queer Africanist expression that might be drawn from Delaney to later artists such as Rotimi Fani-Kayode. The chapter also takes up James Baldwin’s narration of his public sex encounters in the essay “Here Be Dragons” (1985), placing it alongside...

... modernists’ interest in African sculpture and asks us to theorize anew a lineage of queer Africanist expression that might be drawn from Delaney to later artists such as Rotimi Fani-Kayode. The chapter also takes up James Baldwin’s narration of his public sex encounters in the essay “Here Be Dragons” (1985...

... for alternative conceptions of imagined community. black bodies Britishness Caribbean multimedia masculinities This monographic study examines the oeuvre of Nigerian-British photographer Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1956–89) in light of his posthumous Communion series. Where the artist’s choice...