... on one’s interpretive predilections, but, most important, it emphasizes that historical actors on the Swahili coast of eastern Africa did not worry about what was authentically local or indigenous in the making of modernity. In coastal eastern African port cities, the photograph became instantly popular...

... to be celebrated in all corners of the world. It is human nature to rejoice in good times and mourn in tragic times. Like many events of its kind the Cape Town One City Festival came and now it is gone. Now as we proceed with our everyday life in its aftermath, its hangover calls upon us to reflect...

...Hudita Nura Mustafa Copyright © 2001 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2001 Textile Market, Dakar, Senegal, 1993. Fashion A s with most world cities, it is impossible to walk in a Dakar...

...Zita Nunes Copyright © 2003 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2003 City of God (film still), 2002 Zita Nunes he recent Brazilian film, Cidade de...

...Peri M. Klemm Copyright © 2004 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2004 A SAINT IN TH CITY Photograph of Sheikh Amadou Bamba, Djourbel...

... 2010 ANTÓNIO OLE From the Border of the City to the Shore of the Island Nadine Siegert Journal of Contemporary African Art • 26 • Spring 2010 38 • Nka DOI 10.1215/10757163-2009-004...

... lack of closure and welcomes the past s intrusion in the present. A communist mode of reception alters the structure of collective memory. It views history as a gift, given to all of us, without restrictions. Susan Buck-Morss is a distinguished professor of political theory at the Graduate Center, City...

.... John s University in New York City. 176 Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art 48 May 2021 © 2021 by Nka Publications 2021 ...

.... 3 You did what you thought was your destiny: You gave away your love, and left in silence, without the time to understand who you really are. Cambridge, MA, 2020 * After W. H. Auden s Funeral Blues Octavio Zaya is an art critic and curator living in New York City who served as cocurator...

... is a multidisciplinary artist and professor of art history who resides in New Hampshire and New York City. Notes 1 Sonya Clark, artist-in-residence presentation to staff at the Fabric Workshop and Museum (FWM) and in a subsequent conversation with me, when I worked as the FWM senior education specialist, while she...

... collective cartographies. Elodie Silberstein is an adjunct associate professor at Pace University, New York City. Notes 1 bell hooks, Writing Beyond Race: Living Theory and Practice (New York: Routledge, 2013). 2 Human Rights Campaign, A National Epidemic: Fatal AntiTransgender Violence in the United States...

... his passbook in protest against the Sharpeville massacre, March 26, 1960. Photographer unknown. Source: South African History Archive and University of the Western Cape Robben Island Museum Mayibuye Archives, Cape Town, South Africa structuring neighborhoods, townships, and cities by racial category...

... illustrations for her acclaimed children s book Tar Beach (1991), and Woman on a Bridge #1 of 5: Tar Beach (1988), the first in a series that engendered it, in which the young female griot flies from her cozy but somewhat claustrophobic urban rooftop through a starry night sky above a twinkling city. Here, I...

...- performs he sweats so much that he can’t use them rant called Max’s Kansas City, waiting to be served. I anymore and continually has to buy new ones. was sitting in my booth and Miles walked in. I stood Miles was very nice to me, receptive and open up and called him and he came over and sat...

... in affective terms. Using materials culled from daily life, he redirected our focus to our daily field of vision, urging us “to really see what we look at” and feel its effect. By addressing Diba’s work in relation to the city as both source and frame, this article examines how Tout Se Sait brought new levels...

... queerness. Monica L. Miller is an associate professor of English at Barnard College, Columbia University, in New York City. Notes 1 Initially presented at the Black Portraiture[s]: The Black Body in the West conference in Paris, January 2013, this essay reworks some of the arguments in my...

...- in The Post-Colonial Studies Reader, ed. Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin (London: Routledge, 1995), 209. thor with Gail Lord of Cities, Museums and Soft 12 Making Africa—A Continent of Contemporary Design, Power (Arlington...

... with the help of pictorial codes. Elizabeth Colomba is a representational artist Eros would be recognized by his arrows, Psyche living in New York City. Journal of Contemporary African Art • 38–39 • November 2016 196 • Nka DOI 10.1215/10757163-3641865 © 2016 by Nka Publications...