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The Artist’s Artist: Cullen Washington in Conversation with Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons
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Nka (2010) 2010 (27): 62–69.
Published: 01 November 2010
... the purity of painting semantics. In this interview Washington reflects on the discipline of painting, the challenges he faces as he refines his skills, and his aims as he positions himself to claim a place in the present discourse. The interview covers such topics as his heroes and what they represent, what...
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Icons Brought Forward: Renee Cox’s Queen Nanny of the Maroons
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Nka (2016) 2016 (38-39): 102–109.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Kimberli Gant This essay explores the photographic series Queen Nanny of the Maroons (2004–5) by artist Renée Cox. In the series Cox appropriates the eighteenth-century Jamaican folk hero Queen Nanny, leader of the Windward Maroon community, and brings her into the present. Very little is known...
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COEXISTENCE: Contemporary Cultural Production in South Africa
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Nka (2003) 2003 (18): 92–93.
Published: 01 May 2003
....
a celebration of the armed wing sibilities that even a hand- reliance on the abstract line.
of the African National Congress grenade might have in the Rhode repeatedly ran towards
founded on Heroes Day in 1961. context...
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RAOUL PECK’S LUMUMBA: THE PASSION OF REMEMBRANCE AND THE PAN-DIASPORIC LONGING FOR HISTORY
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Nka (2002) 2002 (16-17): 70–73.
Published: 01 May 2002
... of Contemporary African Art
Africa might have been if Africans themselves had decided to take Glory," New York Times. 27 June 2001.
charge of their destiny." Earlier in the interview Ebouaney Riding, Alan. " Lumumba: In a Mirror on Africa, a Hero Unfairly...
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Transverse Spaces: African American Cultural Production in Paris, 1900
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Nka (2022) 2022 (50): 8–21.
Published: 01 May 2022
.... Paul MN. In 1899, Shepherd produced a collaged print of photographs titled Our Unsung Heroes or the Men Whose Names Have Been Forgotten, which he hoped to tour around the United States and abroad. It was a large half-tone picture, measuring 24 x 30 inches, with representations of five different...
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MEANWHILE THE GIRLS WERE PLAYING: Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons
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Nka (2001) 2001 (13-14): 48–55.
Published: 01 May 2001
... was doing History of People cabildos de nation, black mutual aid soci• recalled, "Africa is in the place where I
Who Were Not Heroes. I think that the eties, and many practiced the African- grew up and it affects how I perceive
derived...
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THE OPPOSITE OF EVERYDAY: Wim Botha's Acts of Translation
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Nka (2008) 2008 (22-23): 122–129.
Published: 01 May 2008
... the statesmen, magnates, landowners, heroes, and
supposed integrity that the logo automatically even antiheroes that are the building blocks of
triggers. These are works that put signification Western history. Botha emphasizes their lack of
into disarray: interior and exterior contradict each...
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Afterimages: White Womanhood, Lynching, and the War in Iraq
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Nka (2006) 2006 (20): 72–85.
Published: 01 May 2006
.... The photographs of England simultane•
image of that other gendered symbol of the war, the ously recall a disturbing history and reveal what was
heavily scripted hero, Jessica Lynch. obscured by the discourses of American lynching
This essay examines the inverted pairing...
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SELF REPRESENTATION IN AFRICAN CINEMA
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Nka (2007) 2007 (21): 74–81.
Published: 01 May 2007
... and motion-picture Bamako. The characters occupy the center of the
cameras to represent themselves? Did they inherit photographs like Hollywood heroes and individu•
the stereotypes of Africans forged by Europeans, als who have conquered history.
or did they try to find a new language? There are My...
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EMMA AMOS: ART MATTERS
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Nka (2002) 2002 (16-17): 41–47.
Published: 01 May 2002
... began working towards a Masters degree at New York University where she met
Hale Woodruff, her childhood hero, famous to her for his Atlanta University murals. Woodruff showed Amos's work
to The Spiral (a group of black artists who had established their careers in the 1940s and 50s) which included...
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Ousmane Sembène’s: FAAT KINÈ
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Nka (2002) 2002 (16-17): 100–103.
Published: 01 May 2002
... second novel.j•
"everyday heroes." Black Girl (1965) was a narrative of a colo• The 35 years that separate the films La noire de and Faat Kine
nially generic blackgirl, i.e, of undetermined and insignificant is virtually coincidental with the life of the character Faat Kine, a
origin, as marked...
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A Congo Chronicle: PATRICE LUMUMBA IN URBAN ART
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Nka (2000) 2000 (11-12): 96–98.
Published: 01 May 2000
... is in Trouble because of This Man Lumumba)
Oil on cotton, 18x13"
PATRICE LUMUMBA
IN URBAN ART Elizabeth Harney
J ean-Paul Sartre labeled Patrice Lumumba a "revolutionary without revolution, not a hero, but a mar•
tyr of Pan-Africanism" (Van Lierde, 1963). His characterization underscores...
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TAPPING INTO THE KNOWN: CHRISTOPHER & OBIAGELI OKIGBO
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Nka (2008) 2008 (22-23): 196–197.
Published: 01 May 2008
... and his timely meeting of spirits, divine and awaited delicate and inspirational
brotherhood comprising of African or earthly, for their cosmos is intertwined homecoming
black heroes including Biko, Soyinka, and all who have been...
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AFRICAN FILM FESTIVAL
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Nka (2000) 2000 (11-12): 24–27.
Published: 01 May 2000
... plays, and gives his name to, the doomed hero
of the piece, a massive, almost iconic figure who covertly organises
against...
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Practicing Art in Revolutionary Times
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Nka (2020) 2020 (46): 168–178.
Published: 01 May 2020
... or another. The concept of the martyr as hero is not foreign to Arab societies; the glorification of martyrdom is an inherent aspect of Islamic culture. In the virtual world of social networks, people are free to create their own content, so they re-created a concept historically present in Islam, the cult...
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The Visual Life of Revolution: Archival and Counter-archival Narratives of Revolt
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Nka (2023) 2023 (52): 6–21.
Published: 01 May 2023
.... Protestors welcome the Freedom Train from Atbara. Courtesy of the artist finality of purpose, marked by definite and definitive victory or defeat. It is a story facilitated by heroes against villains. This linear rendition encourages us to treat heroes of revolution with a metric of absolute purity...
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Artists, No-Curators, And Other Intellectual Jargon: The International Cairo Biennale
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Nka (1999) 1999 (10): 62–65.
Published: 01 May 1999
... that tached to the bodies by transparent links, adding a breeze of over-drama to
serve as heroes for her scenes. In the series, Acrobats, her heroes appear in each entity. The overall effect was archaeological. The dismemberment and
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somersault positions...
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Still the fire in the belly: THE CONFESSIONS OF OUSMANE SEMBENE
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Nka (1996) 1996 (5): 44–49.
Published: 01 November 1996
... and
wake up whenever I please, to go to bed when•
frontations with the officer you show the worst of Niwam, the heroes, the most compelling charac•
ever I please, and to write as late as I please...
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DJIBRIL DIOP MAMBÉTY: SOUNDS IN THE KEYS OF ORDINARY FOLK
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Nka (2007) 2007 (21): 68–73.
Published: 01 May 2007
...". Marigo is
knowledge of the range and deep structures of the caught in the hype and hope, and buys a ticket. He
musical heritage of Senegal, in particular, and also has a hero he literally idolizes in the poster
other parts of the world, in general, especially the portrait...
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MICHAEL RICHARDS: 1963–2001
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Nka (2002) 2002 (16-17): 33–35.
Published: 01 May 2002
... of Michael's
heroes whose reference will live long in his art. Born in New York in 1963,
Michael's work is a synthesis of the 1970s Black Arts Movement in which
he grew up and the multiculturalism prevalent in his formative years...
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