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Nka (2018) 2018 (42-43): 222–232.
Published: 01 November 2018
... the Western conceit of Africa as primitive, his 1960s and early ’70s writings chart a new direction, showing the linked struggle between African independence and the civil rights and Black Power movements in the United States. Again, we see another figure of the continent emerging in Baldwin’s late works...
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Nka (2013) 2013 (33): 92–99.
Published: 01 November 2013
...Pep Subirós The exhibition Jane Alexander: Surveys (from the Cape of Good Hope) was presented by the Museum for African Art in collaboration with the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City from April to July 2013. Through combinations of sculpted figures, tableaux, installations...
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Nka (1996) 1996 (4): 24–29.
Published: 01 May 1996
...Octavio Zaya Copyright © 1996 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 1996
...
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Nka (1996) 1996 (5): 50–53.
Published: 01 November 1996
..., independent curator is the Associate Editor of Atlanta. He is a regular
contributor to Flash Art, Art & Auction, Purple Prose, Diario 16 amongst many other publica•
tions. Zaya is currently co-curating an exhibition of African Photographers at the Guggenheim
Museum, New York. He is a Consulting Editor...
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Nka (2009) 2009 (24): 158–167.
Published: 01 May 2009
... !6 in. Courtesy the artist and Goodman Gallery Cape, Cape Town.
160* Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art
African art history and its narrative as it moved
from the collective object to the independent piece
of art; from local to global inspirations or from
abstract...
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Nka (2011) 2011 (28): 20–33.
Published: 01 May 2011
...Marilyn Martin This article, based on the catalogue of his 2010–11 retrospective exhibition, assesses Louis Khehla Maqhubela’s contribution to South African art. Born in Durban in 1939, Maqhubela also lived in Soweto and studied at Johannesburg’s Polly Street Art Centre. By winning the overall...
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Nka (2014) 2014 (35): 100–113.
Published: 01 November 2014
... , Travelling Light , Body and Soul , Brave New World, Africanized , Trip to Mount Zuqualla , Roma , and The Return of the Axum Obelisque . Theo Eshetu Selene Wendt interview multimedia video Blood is Not Fresh Water Ethiopia Copyright © 2014 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2014 THEO...
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Nka (2021) 2021 (48): 24–39.
Published: 01 May 2021
... 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...
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Nka (2018) 2018 (42-43): 170–183.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Ahmed Bedjaoui A few years after achieving its independence in 1962, Algeria, under the umbrella of the Organization of the African Union, organized the first Pan African Cultural Festival, referred to as PANAF. The festival it took place in Algiers in July 1969 during a time when a few African...
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Nka (2015) 2015 (37): 28–37.
Published: 01 November 2015
... 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...
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Nka (2013) 2013 (32): 70–79.
Published: 01 May 2013
...Sheila Petty Contemporary African filmmakers are transforming African cinema as they move beyond the social realist aesthetic directives of independence times to explore the struggles and triumphs of Africans living in globalized contexts. In particular, documentary filmmaking stresses...
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Nka (2024) 2024 (54): 50–63.
Published: 01 May 2024
.... It brings new archival family photographs and fieldwork to discuss a modern Sudan that is curiously absent from the scholarship of both African and Islamic architecture in order to write the global history of modernism in higher resolution. It shows that the verandah was a British colonial architectural...
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Nka (2016) 2016 (38-39): 152–161.
Published: 01 November 2016
... 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...
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Nka (2018) 2018 (42-43): 136–153.
Published: 01 November 2018
... of Negro Arts (Dakar, Senegal, 1966), the International Meeting of Sculptors (Mexico City, 1968), and the Pan-African Cultural Festival (Algiers, 1969). The transnational relationships and growing solidarity with Third Worldism and Pan-Africanism evident in the exhibition history of the 1960s show the ways...
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Bingo Magazine in the Age of Pan-African Festivals: A Feminist Archive of Global Black Consciousness
Nka (2018) 2018 (42-43): 110–123.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Tsitsi Jaji The large-scale Pan-African festivals held in Senegal, Algeria, and Nigeria (1966–77) are recognized as central to forging a transnational repertoire of cultural practices and memories that are the bedrock of a post-independence global black consciousness. Nevertheless, such festivals...
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Nka (2018) 2018 (42-43): 96–109.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi The creation of the Dak’Art Biennale in 1989 marked a pivotal moment in the African and international art scenes. President Abdou Diouf’s government had emerged from the worst part of Senegal’s economic crisis in the 1980s and was ready to return to international cultural...
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Nka (2013) 2013 (32): 62–69.
Published: 01 May 2013
... unappreciated in the latter lm.
66 • Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art • 32 • Spring 2013
Outside the Law. Saïd in his cabaret
Mixing a particular historical context and situation Liberation and independence), but also through
with the gangster genre, Bouchareb seems to have dialogue...
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Nka (2010) 2010 (26): 38–47.
Published: 01 May 2010
...-Godefroy Bidima’s theory of
Angola, in which artists could not breathe freely and la traversée de l’art (1997).9 For Bidima, the decon-
their creativity was curtailed. After independence struction of African traditional myths, the dialogue
in 1975, and the turn toward socialism in politics...
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Nka (2018) 2018 (42-43): 124–135.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Penny M. Von Eschen This article explores implicit as well as explicit debates over modernity among African American artists at the 1966 World Festival of Black Arts held in Dakar, Senegal, honing in on moments that reveal tensions among the artists as well as between artists and the US officials...
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Nka (2017) 2017 (40): 4–5.
Published: 01 June 2017
... of these institutional projects. This is the only
way to fulfill Okeke’s vision and that of others like
him, who belong to the age of Nigerian and African
independence.
Chika Okeke-Agulu
From the Editor Nka • 5 ...
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