...Theresa Sims Samuel Fosso’s self-portrait as The Chief: He Who Sold Africa to the Colonists is one of the artist’s most iconic works. Shot in 1997, Fosso created this photograph just a few years after his rise to international fame, at a time when the larger discursive category of “contemporary...

...Chika Okeke-Agulu [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Nka Publications 2024 From the Editor Africa in Venice In its first one hundred years, the Venice Biennale, the granddaddy of the nearly three hundred art biennials scattered around the world today, had only one established...

...Perrin M. Lathrop This article assesses the stakes, execution, and implications of Adriano Pedrosa’s intervention into the history of global modernism in Foreigners Everywhere , his 2024 edition of the Venice Biennale, with a focus on the biennale’s representation of artists from Africa and its...

... experience in Ghana. Through an exploration of my specific process as an artist in conversation with Ghana’s complex history, I begin to examine the complex implications of sexuality in Ghana. Copyright © 2016 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2016 Ghana Africa black masculinity...

...- ists to look to African sculptural and decorative arts AMERICAN ART, AFRICA, for inspiration, as did their European modernist AND THE DIASPORA counterparts, was an important moment in dia- sporic symbolic...

...Mia L. Bagneris Unequivocal in his professed lack of interest in incorporating any sort of African influence into his work, Palmer Hayden once famously quipped: “I never had any desire to paint anything about Africa. I painted what Negroes, colored people, us Americans do … we’re a brand new race...

...Daniel Haxall In 1997 Kehinde Wiley made his first trip to Africa to meet his father, a Nigerian man he had never known. This journey resonated deeply with the artist, who returned several times and established a studio practice there. Wiley documented each visit through portraiture, creating...

...Dagmawi Woubshet In his long, illustrious career, James Baldwin never wrote a full book on Africa. The figure of Africa, nonetheless, was a recurring one in his corpus—a figure that would change significantly over the course of his writing. While Baldwin’s early representations of Africa follow...

...Steve Pantazis This review is on the exhibition We Face Forward: Art from West Africa Today (June 2 – September 16, 2012), which took place in Manchester, United Kingdom, during the Olympic summer. In particular, it focuses on one venue, the Whitworth Art Gallery, where new works created...

... industry signals a newfound creative energy and prosperity, yet it also raises debate around such issues as Westernization, postcolonialism, race, gender equality and religion. Haute Africa focused on the work of photographers who are not interested in African fashion per se but who choose instead...

...Sandra Klopper Copyright © 1996 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 1996 THE POLITICS OF CULTURAL OWNERSHIP IN CONTEMPORARY SOUTH AFRICA riting in the early 1990s, Stuart Hall noted that subjects, their curators, have thrown into sharp focus the country's...

...Bill Wright Copyright © 1996 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 1996 CONTEMPORARY ART OF AFRICA which plagues the communities eruption." In one of the only direct EDITED...

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...Johan Snyman Copyright © 2002 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2002 WILLEM BOSHOFF'S PANIFICE BETWEEN AFRICA...

...Ruth Kerkham Copyright © 2003 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2003 COEXISTENCE: Contemporary Cultural Production in South Africa The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, January 22 - June 29,2003 (The exhibition will also be at the South...

...Isolde Brielmaier Copyright © 2004 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2004 when digital and web-based media DIGITAL AFRICA continue to flow across and expand...