... Washington Liberia daguerreotypes American Colonization Society doubled gaze AUGUSTUS WASHINGTON LOOKS TO LIBERIA Shawn Michelle Smith n 1853 the African American daguerreotypist Augustus Washington left his home...

... (of Liberia or Sierra original fusion and cosmic foundation of the Leone, for example): it would, rather, be a pro• word, along with the procedures of accumulation, found poetics of the historical sufferings of the assonance, vertigo, etc.) encounter each other Africas...

... egungun mask (Nigeria), or masquerade costume, as it is more typically described and distinguished from a face-covering in the West, and a Gola carved helmet mask and raffia en- semble (Liberia) were placed near a sig- nature Nick Cave (American), Soundsuit (2008), and a costume sculpture used...

... for us stop the struggle, the course of history. Now, wisdom in Africa and in the Third World, artists are cul• what's happening in Liberia, Rwanda, tural ambassadors. It's a new Africa that's being Casamance is death by politics, they're assassi• created, in a slow and difficult birth...

..., and swirl. Overcoming masks produced for performances by the Dan the grid, the delicate, powerful network formed by peoples of Liberia.15 the dispersal of threads of hair and extensions Hank Willis Thomas creates his own vision of begins to suggest that "Everything...