... of the African and African American liberation movements taking place in Algeria during this time. Copyright © 2018 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2018 Pan-African Cultural Festival PANAF William Klein Miriam Makeba African identity and independence ...

... genres, Barnor would migrate into creating a singular portfolio of street and studio portraiture depicting societies in transition: images of a burgeoning sub-Saharan African nation moving toward independence and a European capital city becoming a multicultural metropolis. In the process, Barnor would...

...- or essentialist projections and assumptions about art nity and modernism were forged from strategies of and African subjectivity and identity, and makes evi- resistance to European colonial culture, the works dent the deep connections between the African and of Alexander “Skunder” Boghossian (1937 – 2003...

... a period of optimism from newly of the portrait became a unani• African culture and identity recent visit to Harvard obtained independence, an opti• mous objective. True to form, within the construct of University...

... of helping us to address the questions of rep• course on contemporary African art swings resentation and identity and the evolution of Malick Sidibe, Untitled, 2005, Grey Art Gallery, NY. Gelatin silver print, 15 3/4x11 7/8 in. Courtesy CAAC—the Pigozzi Collection, Geneva. © Malick...

... the birth of an African nation, he saw no clash of identities in borrowing from a British artist. "The female of the Independence Monument grows like a tree," remarked Cecil Todd, who succeeded Trowell as the head of the School in 1959. Indeed, it is a tree of life realized in con• crete...

...Kristen Windmuller-Luna African architecture is having a moment in European museums. Joining the crowd is AFRICA: Architecture, Culture, and Identity , an ambitious and contradictory exhibition at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Hummelbæk, Denmark, June 25, 2015–October 25, 2015. Divided...

... the intentional ways in which Africans shaped their own photographic representation in a medium whose history was as long and distinguished in Africa as in Europe. Enwezor’s 2001 exhibition The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945–1994 , was a revelatory journey through the long...

... us to carefully sidestep some of the misconceptions about Journal of Contemporary African Art • 36 • May 2015 88 • Nka DOI 10.1215/10757163-2914350  © 2015 by Nka Publications Kader Attia, Indépendance Tchao, 2014. Installation view at Dak’Art Biennale, Dakar, 2014...

...." This, he maintained, was "the sad attempts to create an "overarching national 3 bition process." history of African museums. If you want to identity," but, like Stuart Hall, who...

... and postcolonial monuments while incorporating colors and patterns from textiles into elaborate backgrounds. However, Wiley’s response to Africa extends beyond formal considerations. In the spirit of Négritude he mined a collective African identity to contest former colonial hegemonies, critiquing...

... in this new world scient study of the national liberation struggle as order? Could one speak of a single African cultur• witnessed in the Algerian War of Independence. al identity in the same way as a unified political The work of Martiniquan psychiatrist and writer identity? Would a spectrum of new...

... Sudanese identity, Arabic-African interior, industrial and furniture whether to celebrate artists or to independent Sudan that had identity, the immediate Sudanese design. For instance, architec...

..., and impacting the Black Arts movement profoundly. artists who worked in different cities across North Newly independent African countries in the late America and other parts of the African Diaspora. 1950s and early 1960s and the global decolonization Rather, they focus selectively on works by artists...

.... To understand this dynamic, it is crucial to examine the complexity of Carnival in its global context, which sways between affirming cultural identities and its utilization for political or tourist purposes. 34 Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art 54 May 2024 DOI 10.1215/10757163-11205435 © 2024 by Nka...

... and Marker was not an isolated provocation. Paris was attuned to the various African independence movements and hosted such events as the first...

... of African Culture (AMSAC). The exhibition was arranged as the major visual contribution to the 1961 Festival of Negro Art and Culture in Africa and America. The festival was prompted by the stimulus of independence gained by many African countries in 1960 but also reflected a concern among AMSAC members...

... to anticolonialism and independence reshaped the course of African history. Jantjes s signature edition, A South African Col­ ouring Book (1974), is in fact designed to be used as a book rather than as a work that hangs on the wall. It includes a reference list for further reading and sets out to change...

..., Africa in Europe are often misrecognized and politics, and identity. missed altogether. During Africa Remix's run at 82'IMka Journal of Contemporary African Art Amal Kenawy and Abd El Ghany Kenawy, Frozen Memory, 20( . © Amal Kenawy & Abd El Ghany Kenawy , Africa...

... innovation allowed a nation or region of the world to position itself as the model of modernity and cultural sophistication. Many newly independent African nations were eager to reposition themselves on the world stage, and fashion became one way to do so. In apartheid-era South Africa, such politics were...