... of global black cultural politics as Dak’Art’s wellspring. In mapping this history, this article explores the significance of the comprehension of Dak’Art’s geopolitical vision, understood as Pan-African internationalism. Copyright © 2018 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2018 Pan-African...

... 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...

... is Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism (Cambridge, currently completing his dissertation, titled Primitive MA: Harvard University Press, 2003), 5. 25 Tuliza Fleming, “The Convergence of Aesthetics, Politics, Encounters? African...

...Rebecca Wolff [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Nka Publications 2022 Assembling 106 Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art 50 May 2022 DOI 10.1215/10757163-9729162 © 2022 by Nka Publications Pan-Africanism in Melvin Edward s Homage to the Poet Léon Gontran Damas Rebecca...

... the Biennale D rary African Art, occupies a unique niche By way of both political rhetoric and the exhibited in an art world gone biennialistic. It is the works, Dak'Art forms a site for the construction of only biannual international forum dedicated to a Pan-African...

... will of the people, with the right to dif- ference. This idea was increasingly equated less to a common Blackness (Negritude or a racially defined Pan-Africanism in the Garveyite tradition) or to an- cient, lost civilizations about which elites, then and now, dream and more to inventive, performative, cultural...

..., what is alive and what is dead. In No to Torture (1982-83), Houria Niati Oladele Bamgboye's photographic pan• deconstructs the Orientalist view of North els {Images 1, 3, 5, 6 from the series Celebrate, African women embodied in Eugene...

... mission. The Minister of Culture and National Heritage, Ms. Safietou Ndiaye Diop, took time from her busy schedule to meet with us in per• son. It is re-assuring to witness such a commitment to the ideals of Pan-Africanism, and the importance of the dialogue between continental and diasporic Africans...

... (cable, of African artto learn that this was a challenge. Other She is excited about the move toward a more pan- course). A large part of the credit for this belongs to people in the US had tried...

..., and to trace the genealogy of ideas, concepts, and movements, including Négritude and Pan- Africanism, in which diasporic Africans played essential roles.17 (Recalling here works such as Brent Hayes Edwards s The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism, 2003...

... 28 • Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art • 34 • Spring 2014 Case 2: Chimurenga Library pretations and perceptions via musical posts, short Chimurenga magazine is a pan-­African periodical films, poetry, and essays. The participatory frame- founded in March 2002 by writer, DJ...

... had not left its mark on them. 10 In this article, bridging the gap takes three separate but interconnected inquiries. First, the interplay between Africa and America, framed by Kwame Nkrumah and a resurgent Pan-Africanism: given the linkage between civil rights and the anticolonial era, Ananse...

... sovereignty (such as the Black Belt thesis) and anticolonial struggles around the globe. The architects of Pan-Africanism broadly defined as the global cultural and political movement to unify people of African descent around a shared anticolonial struggle were indebted to Marxist theories, even...

.... nationalists and Pan-Africanists all over the African diaspora. For Mumia Abu-Jamal, the fist references a tree of hope and The three artists, their work, and their bril• protest against violence. liantly conceived site...

..., or pointed fragments of metal and a broken plastic toilet seat 24 • Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art embedded in sand present a dreary view. The path of roses is Erruas Safaa of Morocco is composed of six square white pan• topped by a signboard in the style of an airport...

.... Afropolitanism: Binyavanga Wainaina Explains Why ‘I Am a Pan- Africanist, Not an Afropolitan’” (paper presented at the African Studies Association UK Biennial Conference, University of Leeds, Nana...

...Chika Okeke Copyright © 1998 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 1998 ObioraRhythm s of TransitionUdechukw, 1997, oil on canvas. u While it may be easy to find in his recent work, a number of links to recent international artistic...

...Salah M. Hassan This article contemplates the life and work of the Oxford-based South African artist and activist Gavin Jantjes, born in 1948 when apartheid officially became the law of the land in South Africa with the National Party’s election to power. Because Jantjes’s understanding of his role...

... as what we face on the inside. Copyright © 2010 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2010 Uncovering the Frozen Image Elleni (Centime) Zeleke mages of Ethiopian women dominate secular and as such presents them as somewhat...

..., such as pan-­Africanism and the Rastafarian mediaries that continuously negotiate the experience spirit and philosophy. Almost ninety years after between the private self and the public other. Addi- the original photograph was taken, Haile Selassie’s tionally, as a body that exists within the public...