...Anna Wallace-Thompson As a group show, Trade Roots presented an interesting selection of artists tied together by a common denominator. While at first glance the practices of these diverse artists appeared to have little in common, all three presented works that explored the ways in which our world...

.... These works referred a straight society by drawing on artists from Malawi depict foreign• to the commodities trade that his own identity of being a gay ers. They had been used in Chewa took place via the Cape Dutch Jew in a South African...

... or less exclusively on the business metonym is captured in the consumerist mantra: of trading per se. He notes the virtual absence of what you drive is what you are. On another, Gaba is any intensive exploitation of natural resources, of wise to a multitude of ambivalences and ambigui- any large...

... the violence. There are those who, shot in Cidade Alta (Upper City), an area of Rio where the drug despite the racism and prejudice against them as favelados, fight trade is very active. The last section of the film was filmed in stu• to make a legal living to support...

... Stephanie Smallwood’s concept of “anomalous intimacies,” articulated in her book Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora , in order to think about how these two artists are in conversation with one another and how they represent the black community after the slave trade. I...

... of Contemporary African Art 46 May 202046 Nka Trade winds. Source: Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration (New York: W. W. Norton, 2006) Castile and the Atlantic winds The Atlantic trade winds Zielinski Nka 47 special. Order, regulation, balance, universalism, and so...

... trades or as day laborers, and many of 1990, she tore herself from the tree, an the women worked as laundresses and about Africa [over] there. Africa was seamstresses. Many were members of here." In an earlier interview she When I...

... The lace trade was centered in the city of ing, white mending, and embroidering.4 As mech• Nottingham and in villages just outside its anization moved from hand-operated to powered medieval border. Trade, storage, and the technolo• machines, who made lace for whom remained...

... organized in Washington, D.C., commemo - through the choice of topical subject matter and Discussing the 2001 terrorist attacks on the World masquerade of the Iraq war, suburban recruits rating the fortieth anniversary of the atomic bomb - the use of innovative techniques. Minshall’s The Trade...

... - work of art; both Willie Cole and Hank slave trade in Benin, La Bouche du Roi ing allegiance to Xevioso, the maker of Willis Thomas have used it, in 1997...

... - work of art; both Willie Cole and Hank slave trade in Benin, La Bouche du Roi ing allegiance to Xevioso, the maker of Willis Thomas have used it, in 1997...

... - work of art; both Willie Cole and Hank slave trade in Benin, La Bouche du Roi ing allegiance to Xevioso, the maker of Willis Thomas have used it, in 1997...

... - work of art; both Willie Cole and Hank slave trade in Benin, La Bouche du Roi ing allegiance to Xevioso, the maker of Willis Thomas have used it, in 1997...

...Natasha Becker This article takes a critical and intimate look at Okwui Enwezor’s work in South Africa during the 1990s and asserts that the international exhibition he curated in Johannesburg in 1997—the Second Johannesburg Biennale, Trade Routes: History and Geography —is an important lens...

... of confining cal admonition “The love of money is the root of all and demeaning definitions and meanings formed evil” (1 Timothy 6:10) was exceptionally appropri- to explain and contain plantation life.8 Yet white ate for the Atlantic slave trade. The system gener- men sexually exploited black women...

... by trade with the Portuguese. address younger men, as well as the term "Uncle" Philosopher Kwame Appiah recently has writ• used to age a slave or a black male beyond the ten about the presence of cell phones, the internet, point of being a sexual rival. So, in Freeman's traditional kente cloth...

... and livelihood is entirely dependent on the sale of counterfeit goods. The artist buys into counterfeit trade through the currency of art, revealing its true social bankruptcy in a series of striking mixed-me- dia works. She unveils the beauty, humanity, and in- dividuality of illegal residents who suffer...

... and the trade and exchange it generated impacted European cultures and civilizations for centuries. As a result, the view of the medieval world...

... remembered it is the same image specified was the image of the engraving, and that that appears in the Cosatu [Congress of South Afri- the glass had to be handmade. can Trade Unions] logo. The coincidence seemed The Wolf’s Theme, a sculptural installation with too great, so I...

... of stretch mark cream and weighted bracelets. A monumen- tal reproduction of a Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) button in fiberglass com...