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..., that is the turning point. The statement captures ed to write a history of Ethiopia for Ethiopians, creating his the whole idea of an outsider who was not a stranger after own narrative liberated from a Eurocentric perception of all because he belongs to the land. My position as both Ethiopian history...

.... That struct our history, science fiction narrative devices position of protest so completely converging with are natural structures for complex expressions of celebration is one of the most exhilarating things memory, history, and dreams. As I oriented myself I’ve experienced. I took...

...Leena Habiballa [email protected] © 2020 Tropics of Meta 2020 THE VISUAL LIFE Archival and Counter-archival Narratives of Revolt Leena Habiballa 6 Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art 52 May 2023 DOI 10.1215/10757163-10434938 © 2020 Tropics of Meta OF REVOLUTION Suha...

...Celeste-Marie Bernier Black British artist Barbara Walker works across multiple narrative series to create hard-hitting dramatic tableaux in which she does powerful justice to the psychological, physical, emotional, cultural, social, and imaginative realities of lives as lived by black women, men...

...Holiday Powers This paper proposes a new reading of Moroccan abstract painter Jilali Gharbaoui through the lens of decolonization. Gharbaoui fits uncomfortably into the narrative of modernism in Morocco. Unlike other painters, interested in direct connections between their shapes or abstractions...

... 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...

... narratives of both art history and cultural anthropology. The second goal would not likely be accepted by art-world professionals in Africa, for contemporary African art and artists have unfortunately been suspended between the ethnological museum and the art gallery and between cultural anthropology and art...

...Matthew Omelsky This article elucidates how Jean-Pierre Bekolo’s 2006 film Les saignantes rearticulates cyborgian thought in an effort to remap dominant modes of social consciousness among African youth. Bekolo uproots hegemonic tropes of African pathology; recasts narratives of African tradition...

... from the ragged, yet beautiful, threads of daily life as influenced by the long-term effect of history and its implications on what plays out in the present. These narratives are punctuated by an abundance of words, text, and literary references that are written, spoken, sung, recited, projected...

... and periods. Resnais’s and Marker’s film coincided with the emergence of anticolonial culture and consciousness, which hinged on the African self-narrative and activist movements connected to the Parisian publishing house Présence Africaine . Attia’s work situates us in an indefinite period between World War...

... the narratives and bend an association of ideas so that a black individual in a period setting is no longer synonymous with slave subservience and, by extension, does not instill fear or mistrust. She becomes the center of her own tale and hastens it forward. Creating pieces that simulate Old Masters’ techniques...

... multiracial and multireligious composition. The article traces this dynamic around the example of the non-European collections in Berlin’s Museum Island and the future Humboldt Forum, conceptualized as the world’s largest “universal museum.” The narratives through which this art is integrated into Europe’s...

... of these developments and reckon with the implications and meanings of these changes in conditions for those suffering their consequences. Often central to and reflected in the artist’s work is a critique of narratives of progress. This article examines the ways The Notion of Family series bears witness to Black life...

...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...

... not have worked with, yet whose artistic practices and perspectives still honor the legacy of a curator who shifted the world’s understanding of how contemporary art could break free from Eurocentric modes of thinking to convey new narratives, perspectives, histories, and futures. This review honors...

... Movement, Himid is renowned for her narrative paintings, which interrogate historical representations of Black people’s creativity—from the eighteenth century to the present day. Painted canvasses, cut-out figures, drawers, and found carts find home in exhibitions that reveal the artist’s engagement...

... photography is George Osodi’s strong suit. His images of the not so pleasant and the contestatory in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria and the apparent ease with which he confronts the documentary photography genre are the topics of this essay. His photographs embody narratives of diverse contexts...

... Hayes’s Symbionese Liberation Army, Screed #16, Patricia Hearst’s Second Tape (2003), and Coco Fusco’s a/k/a Mrs. George Gilbert (2004) mobilize Black Power–era images in a formal as well as narrative challenge to conventions around race, gender, and sexuality. They also question the notion...

.... The series, only recently seen in its entirety in an exhibition curated by the Neuberger Museum in Purchase, New York, of Ringgold’s 1960s paintings, should be considered a brilliant contribution to the trajectory and consequently the narrative of American art at all levels. Copyright © 2011 Nka: Journal...

...Janet Berry Hess This article employs ten years of interviews with the African and Native American artist Richard Mayhew to examine Mayhew’s artistic narrative of cultural “spiritual” commitments and ideals, his alignment with community production and performance, and his advocacy of an aesthetic...