... of the traces of remoteness in closeness; to domesticate the unfamiliar; to work with what seem to be opposites—it is this cultural, historical, and aesthetic sensitivity that underlies the term Afropolitanism —a political and cultural stance in relation to the nation, to race, and to the issue of difference...

... I collaborated with Khwezi Gule, then curator at Johannesburg Art Gallery.2 Bringing Afropolitanism to the Arctic Circle Wendt Nka 137 Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Piedterre, Everyone Needs His Oba Oba, 2006. Gouache, pencil, watercolor, ink, and woven threads on paper, 212 x 152.5 cm. Courtesy...

... and cultural production. This article focuses on the use of the term Afropolitan , which has made its way into African artistic and literary criticism as a crossover from the fashion and popular culture arenas. In thinking about the usefulness of “Afropolitanism,” the author revisits the notion of c...

... artists essays included in this issue of Nka . These exhibitions and tions of immigrant literary and artistic production in the con - Afropolitan, a suggestive composite term, is where “cos - continues to afford us a fresh look at the renewed importance platforms not only...

... discourses of identity in order to embrace more universal subjects. Two currently used terms that are applied to describe black artists— post-black and Afropolitan —are discussed from a perspective that questions their universal applicability and raises attention to the heterotemporal aspects of being black...

.... These include efforts to update the postcolonial troping of cosmopoli- tanism (as in Afropolitanism) or the hermeneutic wrench of the trope itself (as in afrotropes), to give but two notable examples preoccupied with the ex-centric thinking of Africa in and as a cultural world system and not a see-saw...

... citizens and commuters Afropolitan, in line with Mbembe.26 The faces of who, against all odds, creatively resist the capitalist these potential travelers are “identified” by several colonization of urban space by retaining a sense types of traditional African masks and the hybrid, of community...

... and growing their fashion industries, under cally incompatible. South African fashion scholar apartheid, black women and men had restricted legal Leora Farber claims that styles such as the Afro options for exercising physical and financial power. look (and its offspring—Afropolitan, Afro-chic, Spending...

... a With two new essays—"Notes from Down South: source of power in the negotiation of the field of Towards Defining Contemporary African cultural production, and it is the momentary Practice" by JAG Chief Curator Clive Kellner and power generated by Africa Remix that has been "Afropolitanism...

... of these designers, label in Kampala. She has a gift for feminine, playful Africa is beginning to redefine the luxury fashion tailoring. industry. The Luxury Conference 2012, spearheaded In New York, the Afropolitan fashion scene by the International Herald Tribune, focused...

..., a dynamic sound installation that draws together the voices of Fernandes the Afropolitan sophisticate, the humorless (white) expert, and the bombastic pidgin English...

... cosmopolitan (Afropolitan?) citizenship. There is ment of the embedded nature of humanism in its obviously a way to see the power of citizenship as practices owing to the history of radical refusal of continuous with nationalism and nation building, colonial violence, to Ikem Okoye’s remonstrations...