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Nka (2023) 2023 (53): 88–98.
Published: 01 November 2023
... Halaka. These agitprop t heater groups, formed by North African migrant workers and students like the rest of the MT A, were active in Paris and the south of France between 1973 and 1978. Khalili’s work particularly focuses on the 1974 presidential run of D jellali Kamal, a pseudonym for an anonymous Al...
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Nka (2023) 2023 (53): 34–43.
Published: 01 November 2023
... artist Rachid Koraïchi s Le Jardin d Afrique (henceforth Le Jardin), the cemetery he curated for migrants tossed by the sea. Drawing from both symbolic and humanistic anthropology, we concede this African garden as a forest of symbols. 2 Our position is also inspired by an anthropology of art that helps...
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Nka (2019) 2019 (45): 114–126.
Published: 01 November 2019
... experience, and an equally unstable subject. These works reclaim the imagery associated with the “abject immigrant” to restore their agency as well as their humanity. Copyright © 2019 by Nka Publications 2019 Zineb Sedira Allan deSouza Mary Evans African migrant refugee Journal of Contemporary...
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Nka (2020) 2020 (46): 6–7.
Published: 01 May 2020
... toward other human beings for example, revisiting notions such as the right to have rights, as Hannah Arendt articulated in her criticism of human rights from the perspec- tive of statelessness, a condition that many African migrants continue to embody in Europe. In reconceptualizing cosmopolitanism...
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Nka (2009) 2009 (25): 96–105.
Published: 01 November 2009
... heard SN: Three Trees is an overwhelmingly violent and emo - especially how they portrayed sexuality in such crisp, at the time of African migrants drowning—thrown over - tional rape scene, and yet you...
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Nka (2020) 2020 (46): 8–26.
Published: 01 May 2020
... of the regimes of surrveilance with border control and sensationalism in the popular media. In her hauntingly beautiful and yet surreal series of photographs and video installations titled Seeking Refuge (2008), Cape Town-based artist Berni Searle reenacts and retraces the journey of many West African migrants...
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Nka (1999) 1999 (10): 18–23.
Published: 01 May 1999
... in 1994, the exhibition "Places of Power" in lohannesburg, and at the Kwangju Journal of Contemporary African Art Migrant Worker's Quarters, 1997, mixed media installation from "no place(like home courtesy Walker Art...
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Nka (2009) 2009 (25): 128–143.
Published: 01 November 2009
... - ter life often get curtailed by powerful state prac - curity zones in areas traversed by Africans where so- tices. Delineating the hopes and frustrations of called illegal immigrants are detained or blocked. aspiring migrants provides an important opportu - These new waves...
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Nka (2016) 2016 (38-39): 60–69.
Published: 01 November 2016
.... Copyright © 2016 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2016 saga bwoy rude bwoy style-fashion-dress black masculinities creolization SAGA BWOYS AND RUDE BWOYS MIGRATION, GROOMING, AND DANDYISM Michael McMillan andyism was initially imposed on black...
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Nka (2024) 2024 (55): 62–75.
Published: 01 November 2024
... scenes in Ghosh s book, when the migrant boat enters Italian waters, as I moved through La Biennale di Venezia this year, most often because of the Biennale s expanded format. An important result of this expansion was the inclusion of more artists and pavilions from the African diaspora, both in and out...
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Nka (2023) 2023 (53): 101–112.
Published: 01 November 2023
... decoloniality Global South SHARJAH BIENNIAL 15 100 Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art 53 November 2023 DOI 10.1215/10757163-10904118 © 2023 by Nka Publications CREATING SPACE for Enwezor s Curatorial Vision Selene Wendt Carrie Mae Weems, The In Between (detail), 2022 2023. Commissioned by Sharjah...
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Nka (2020) 2020 (46): 72–82.
Published: 01 May 2020
... Forum. Steyerl s film uncovers these layers through the stories of those considered unGerman in various historical periods, from Jews kept out of Berlin s nineteenth- century city center by a customs border, through migrants from Germany s African colonies hustling to survive in the Weimar Republic...
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Nka (2013) 2013 (33): 112–115.
Published: 01 November 2013
... to consider the Iscotch, youthful followers of the Shembe religion identifiable by their mix of European and Zulu sartorial traditions. Copyright © 2013 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2013...
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Nka (2015) 2015 (36): 6–15.
Published: 01 May 2015
...-generated pathology of the Black bomber, forced to take his place alongside existing pernicious notions of the Black mugger and Black rapist. Copyright © 2015 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2015 rioting Brixton Tottenham Black youth media pathology THROUGH THE WIRE Black British...
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Nka (2021) 2021 (48): 70–95.
Published: 01 May 2021
... that contested the binaristic perception of the West as the center and the non-West as periphery and 70 Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art 48 May 2021 DOI 10.1215/10757163-8971314 © 2021 by Nka Publications Dady de Maximo, If the Sea Could Talk, 2014. Political fashion show during the opening of Camp...
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Nka (2020) 2020 (46): 84–99.
Published: 01 May 2020
... Berni Searle Berni Searle, Voyage, from the Seeking Refuge series, 2008. Archival pigment ink on cotton rag paper, 112 x 154 cm. Courtesy the artist DOI 10.1215/10757163-8308210 © 2020 by Nka Publications Journal of Contemporary African Art 46 May 2020 Searle Nka 85 Journal of Contemporary African...
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Nka (2024) 2024 (54): 50–63.
Published: 01 May 2024
..., as well as West African migrants of the Mahdi movement.9 In any event, the premise about human difference and European comfort in a perceived tropical climate resulted not only in the racial segregation of populations in Omdurman and Khartoum but also in the latter s construction with wide streets...
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Nka (2019) 2019 (45): 160–163.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Silvi Naçi Copyright © 2019 by Nka Publications 2019 RE V IE W S Journal of Contemporary African Art 45 November 2019160 Nka DOI 10.1215/10757163-7917228 © 2019 by Nka Publications ALL LANGUAGES WELCOMED HERE DELL MARIE HAMILTON SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS JANUARY 10...
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Nka (2012) 2012 (31): 155–157.
Published: 01 November 2012
...Dalila Scruggs This review is an interpretive description of Nari Ward’s Mirage Sub Lignum, a large-scale installation on view at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. Copyright © 2012 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2012 tenants...
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Nka (2023) 2023 (53): 114–125.
Published: 01 November 2023
...: Ismail Noor 114 Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art 53 November 2023 DOI 10.1215/10757163-10904132 © 2023 by Nka Publications James Meyer Meyer Nka 115 Hoda Afshar, Remain, 2018. Two channel digital video, color and sound, 24 minutes. Installation view, Sharjah Biennial 15, Old Al Dhaid...