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Nka (1995) 1995 (2): 34–41.
Published: 01 May 1995
... reasons, all of us here share some kind of heritage. And in that sense, David Hammons, as an artist whose work I've 34>NKA Journal of Contemporary African Art • Spring/Summer 1995 AFRICAN AMERICAN ARTISTS ON ISSUES OF MUSEUMS AND REPRESENTATION OF AFRICAN AMERICAN ART...
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Nka (2013) 2013 (32): 70–79.
Published: 01 May 2013
... and reterritorializing aesthetics to forge their own issues within contexts they control. As a targeted African cultural space within a global Olivier Barlet notes, “At the time of Independence, ow of histories, and seek to reconceive postcolonial lm was about reappropriating one’s own gaze, one’s Africa...
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Nka (2015) 2015 (37): 114–125.
Published: 01 November 2015
... conscious viewpoints. They spurned national development was piqued. Soon after their the conventional fast-fashion model that relies on discussion with Brohman, McAlister and Pringle set unsafe working conditions, low wages, and environ- to work with Brandaid to address this issue...
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Nka (1996) 1996 (5): 21–23.
Published: 01 November 1996
... issues. His new book on the Harlem Renaissance is forthcoming from Franklin Watts. He lives face than in the photographs De Carava produced for the book in New York...
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Nka (2010) 2010 (27): 126–128.
Published: 01 November 2010
... a space that complicates and continent suffering the of narratives the shifts abject of “dark” continent the as Africa demarcate that narratives the interrogates Mutu ios scenar- In her otherworldly addresses. within work the that issues the and work the subjects...
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Nka (2021) 2021 (49): 8–23.
Published: 01 November 2021
... legacy within Egypt and in international surrealist circles. This article serves as a preview of contributions to this special issue of Nka , which serves as a followup to these two events, documenting the relationship of the Egyptian surrealists with Western counterparts, especially the French...
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Nka (2017) 2017 (40): 82–89.
Published: 01 June 2017
... her theme of The Past, the Present, the Possible by looking closely at the exhibits and some of the key issues that framed the conversations during the March Meeting, the ancillary talk shop event that is as important as the various exhibitions. I explore selected works that either mirror the arc...
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Nka (2019) 2019 (44): 64–76.
Published: 01 May 2019
... uniform and joined the house staff in the residency program: he performed housekeeping activities such as cleaning and gardening; he cooked for the house staff and his coworkers every day throughout the ten-day period; and he gave a fifteen-minute talk, sharing his perspective on issues of race class...
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Nka (2010) 2010 (26): 80–151.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Chika Okeke-Agulu This panel, convened from September 4 to October 10, 2009, is the second of a three-part series on issues in contemporary African art. The first panel, which appeared in issue 22/23 of Nka, focused on large-scale exhibitions, which have been instrumental in bringing the work...
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Nka (2020) 2020 (46): 8–26.
Published: 01 May 2020
... that is capable of critically unpacking these paradoxes and that offers a critical analysis of contemporary African and African diaspora artistic and cultural production. In doing so, the author asserts the importance of movement, mobility, and transiency in addressing issues of contemporary African artistic...
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Nka (2020) 2020 (46): 56–61.
Published: 01 May 2020
... of the traces of remoteness in closeness; to domesticate the unfamiliar; to work with what seem to be opposites—it is this cultural, historical, and aesthetic sensitivity that underlies the term Afropolitanism —a political and cultural stance in relation to the nation, to race, and to the issue of difference...
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Nka (2020) 2020 (47): 68–81.
Published: 01 November 2020
... University and the aftermaths of the Second World War in Africa, respectively, the article touches on issues of art education, the production of historical meaning, and the role of cultural institutions in Uganda. It also examines the complex entanglement between colonial legacies and postcolonial...
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Nka (2021) 2021 (48): 24–39.
Published: 01 May 2021
... on their own terms did just that. It is through his curatorial practice of art-world decolonization that Enwezor has issued a rallying cry. He has shown us the way forward. © 2021 by Nka Publications 2021 Documenta11 In/Sight: African Photographers 1940-Present The Short Century: Independence...
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Nka (2022) 2022 (51): 62–71.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Anita N. Bateman This article contextualizes the work of contemporary photographer Aïda Muluneh within a broader discussion of Ethiopia’s recent political climate. The author argues that Muluneh visually interprets narratives of place, exile, and agency, with particular regard to issues...
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Nka (2022) 2022 (51): 34–46.
Published: 01 November 2022
... radically constrained the mobility and selfhood of Black South Africans. They also gesture toward a perhaps unanticipated symptom of South Africa’s democratic turn: the issue of confronting the stuff of apartheid, the archival debris left over from a system reliant on exhaustive administrative documentation...
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Nka (2018) 2018 (42-43): 184–193.
Published: 01 November 2018
... essay in this issue documents the musical performances of the 1969 PANAF against the cityscape of Algiers at the time. Pan-African Cultural Festival PANAF Algiers 1969 photography Black Panther Party Copyright © 2018 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2018 ...
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Nka (2015) 2015 (36): 94–107.
Published: 01 May 2015
... in Diba’s precedent mixed-media work. With more than four decades of artistic practice and a doctorate in urban geography from the University of Nice, Diba has long explored issues involving urban life in his work. In this installation, the artist translated the order and disorder of Dakar’s streets...
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Nka (2016) 2016 (38-39): 6–7.
Published: 01 November 2016
... the visual arts and modernity, was the perfect stage for Black Portraiture[s]: The Black Body in the West, the fifth in the series of visual art conferences held in Paris in January 2013. The essays offered in this special issue of Nka were gathered from that historic meeting and offer the most cutting-edge...
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Nka (2015) 2015 (37): 126–128.
Published: 01 November 2015
... 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...
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Nka (2019) 2019 (45): 8–17.
Published: 01 November 2019
... shows of black British artists’ work. With so much having happened to limited numbers of black British artists, this introduction suggests that burgeoning scholarship on these and other artists is timely, and that the articles assembled for this issue of Nka are a reflection of this increased attention...