...Hélène Tissières In 2019, the second edition of Segou’Art, a contemporary art event taking place in Mali, was combined with the country’s popular Festival on the Niger, launched in 2005 by cultural entrepreneur Mamou Daffé. The combined festival, held February 1–9, included concerts, workshops...

...: Deuxième Paris (2004, Niger/France) and Jean-Marie Teno’s Sacred Places (2009, Cameroon/France). In particular, the article considers how the films reterritorialize documentary aesthetics through the use of landscape and testimony as metaphors for Africa’s post-colonial struggles. In doing so...

... Fous). When, in In Search of independence that is long overdue. And yet looks at a group of men in Niger who travel Africa (1997), Diawara takes his camera to this move beyond colonial identities also from the city to the countryside to become Africa in search...

... and launched Relocating to Paris in the early 1970s, he decided the Festival International de la Mode Africaine in to call himself Chris, in homage to Christian Dior, the Niger desert in 1998, a long-standing African and worked for numerous fashion houses before fashion event that brings African...

... handed her clay, and Owens-Hart demonstrated. Nance made photographs of the moment. In the background, Folarin is laughing as he introduces Owens-Hart as a potter from across the water. At the time, the women thought he meant the Niger River. OwensHart returned that summer on a National Endowment...

... in the west• ern Niger Delta region of Nigeria. "Kalahari ethnic identity is under enormous pressure as a result of modernization and Western influences. One Kalahari response to their exposure to foreign values, styles, cultural artifacts and ways of life has been to select, incorporate...

... and svelte Broken Chambers of Memory (1979), reference to course and thick. For the artist, working with terra-cotta head sculptures from the Nok, a ninth- cowhide is both punishment and reward. In a gru• century Niger Basin civilization. In his fracturing elling process the artist...

... had lived that long, of the first trip, which included Ghana, Togo, Dahomey, and and we were there. In that week, we went to the stadium. Niger. It was ETA, Educators to Africa, formally sponsored It took half a day for the units of people to come into the by the University of Connecticut...

... in the context of the so-called war on terror we continue to witness in Iraq, Palestine, and Afghanistan. In the context of Africa, the war on terror can be seen in recent events in Mali, Niger, and Algeria cases in point that further endanger the route of migration of Africans with the complicity of many West...

... and the “a crisis of cultural authority” because of unremit- United States [since 2009], or Valleys of the Niger, ting questioning of their ‘foundational purpose,’ co-­organized by ethnological museums from five which she isolates as “the pursuit and dissemination West African countries in collaboration...

... about the stances we take, but also about the choices hope, shapes how we respond to both the presence and decisions we make, the expenditures we incur (or not) of an El Anatsui in a museum gallery and (material, economic, professional, intellectual), and the decimation of the Niger Delta...