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...William Gallois How can we see beyond colonialism? And how might we be able to apprehend the work of those who saw themselves as living and creating the strictures of imperial control? This article argues for an uncolonial approach to knowledge creation, rejecting imperial history’s endless desire...

... beginning with the Zemema Mesafint , or Era of Princes (ca. 1760– 1855), which laid the groundwork for the emergence of centralized imperial power that was later dissolved by the 1974 revolution. The article explores the consequences of state power and nationalism post-revolution in definitions of modernity...

... echoes voguers’ transgression of high fashion in dance competitions. Newsome stages a transnational and transhistorical dialogue between two distinct but interconnected systems of oppression, imperialism and global capitalism, thus sketching a collective history of Black pain and of creative resilience...

... imagination brought about by legacies of colonialism, imperialism, and bourgeois statecraft in Sudan. Shaddad seems interested in the ways the moving picture articulates itself, how it stretches and composes meaning when liberated from the burden of the sonic — a re-evaluation of the terms of language...

... the man and his empire contained seeds of their own destruction, the tragic conflation of destiny and desire. Nelson’s victory marks the point of no return, the beginning of an era of imperial crime on a new scale. Shonibare retells the myth of Nelson’s victory as the West’s tragic moral demise, dead...

... to protect the Arctic landscape, wildlife, and indigenous peoples from unchecked industrialization but also about territorial expansion and the mining of natural resources. Moreover, this straightforward imperial rivalry for the Arctic resources that were once off-limits recalls earlier struggles for power...

... subjectivity.” Departing from binary paradigms in which Africa is “traditional,” Europe “modern,” and imperialism “modernizing,” Sembène saw his society as a space imbued with plural modernities; his historical narratives not only contest the usual representations of colonial Africa but also demystify all...

... Victoria’s favorite sculptor; and Professor Cyril Ransome, Prince Alemayehu’s private tutor. It is part of a larger book and documentary/narrative film project written and directed by Yemane I. Demissie. Copyright © 2016 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2016 imperialism Africa Ethiopia...

... looted, expropriated, and taken by force or guile from the continent mostly during the age of empire and which reside in Western museums and collections large and small. Right from the early years of African political independence from European imperial powers, as Bénédicte Savoy has shown in her recent...

..., even though there is no way of gauging his identity one way or another. If he is stateless, then the film locates him in the shadows of national grandeur and who these figures are, or how their amorous entwine- imperial display, as the interloper—­a refugee? an ment turns out. asylum...

... movement in Nigeria. He had configured a gressive hard-edged energy which caused some and on hunger strikes as he and others fashioned a new image and a new life for himself. to dub it "Mau Mau" Mondrian—a reference to revolution against imperialism and colonial hege• Equally...

... of struggle, informs both U. S. foreign policy and Fusco's challenge. As Fusco clearly demonstrates in Buried Pig with Mows (a show in which, by the way, there is literally nothing to buy), the utilization of culture as a technique of imperialism goes back more than one hundred years. (Although...

... Khan s single-channel film Mapping Water (2023), archival research and lived experiences are shaped into a poetic narrative that explores the connections between time, geography, memory, and imperialism. The film is a visual journey across oceans to multiple sites and temporalities. Near and distant...

... of and a vehicle for imperial authority. Courtesy Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University Exploring photographs of Haile Selassie while focusing on how the image of his physical body cap- large-­brimmed hat has also been replaced with a tured and signified his role as a monarch...

... any measure of reality and becomes a whirl of cosmic dust, a Exposition in Addis Ababa and was awarded an Imperial scholarship movement tout court For the old masters, color determined the light...

... issue is how the present receives the past and how the claim to universality is related to the historical event. One aspect of the process is shifting the focus so that history is researched and written about from local perspectives and not from the imperial center. In the case of the Haitian Revolution...

... was created by an imperial culture (the North Atlantic world) in the sixteenth century, when an intercon- nected world system began to be imagined as a result of the global expansion of capitalism. It belongs to a bundle of terms that Michel-Rolph Trouillot calls North Atlantic universals, which have...

... University Press, 2006.) 2 Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993). 3 Edward W. Said, Culture and Imperialism (New York: Vintage, 1994). 4 Pheng Cheah, Inhuman Conditions: On Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights (Cambridge, MA: Harvard...

... bears a superimposed tag, is prayer); imperial icons: the taining an assembly of flashy context. allocated to a governmental...

... at th e term th e cum ulative and rein fo rcing impositions "Negritude" first appeared in print in Cesa ire's of the tran satlantic enslaveme nt of Africans and epic book-length poem , Cahier d'un retou r all entrenc hing patterns of European imperi alist pays natal (Notebook of a Return...