...Chika Okeke Copyright © 2002 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2002 STUDIO CALL Charles H. Nelson Jr. Keeping it REAL...

...Rachel Nelson Since 2007 Kiluanji Kia Henda’s artworks have been shown extensively on the international art circuit and included in exhibitions from Guangzhou to São Paulo, from Luanda to Venice. By considering some notable art projects and exhibition experiences that have occurred...

...Michael Westfall This essay reviews Yinka Shonibare MBE’s exhibition Addio del passato , exploring themes of decay, dissipation, and death as expressed through the historical figure of Lord Nelson. Shonibare’s exhibition casts Nelson as a hapless metonym for the colonial urge, suggesting that both...

... by Alondra Nelson in 2002 is now a seminal text in Afrofuturist studies. The three computer montages in the essay (Spinner and the Spindle, Village Spells, and In Touch...

... of Nelson Mandela. Trilogy. It depicts a gathering around a red table on the porch of our Paulding Avenue house of family and friends around a birthday table. The OE: Make a connection for me between the three films (Vintage, E Minha first time I used it in Vintage, I did so because of my mother's...

... from the community: Nelson Magellan, to the elaborate ritualism of the catholic aesthetic, and to the Gonzalez, 39, and incarcerated felon doing time for drug-related burglary, natural flamboyance of the cultures of Africa's Guinea Coast; that ajiaco and Nelson Gonzalez jr., 15; father...

... with identification, purpose, joined the group, and we became six, which later and direction. The directness of our statement was changed to seven as Nelson Stevens, painter-­ to be conveyed in several ways: printmaker, entered the group. And we continued...

... only ten dollars—I see that you have one BJH: Nelson Stevens usually—I would call his lettering original back there [in the gallery], because it has the Bakota almost “headline”—because he would have “UHURU” or head on it—okay, and it says $10 on there, so—God, they something at the top...

... for the opening of Contemporary African Art • Fall/Winter 1995 address by Nelson Mandela, I rather perversely started memo-tripping on application, Langa inscribes the cartography of his own identity on to that a reading of Aime Cesaire's Une Ternpete, which recast Shakespeare's...

... for images inspired by African people—experience and images that African people can relate to directly AfriCOBRA member Nelson Stevens without formal art training and/or experience. Art...

..., the 2ndJohannesburg Biennale d) even Britain has become colonized (by Microsoft). e) Nelson Mandela can "give the bird" to Clinton and go visit Ghaddafi in Libya. 15) The theme "Trade Routes": f) Nelson Mandela gets to hang out...

... AfriCOBRA and the Black Arts Movement in 1960s Chicago Napoleon Jones-Henderson Journal of Contemporary African Art • 30 • Spring 2012 98 • Nka DOI 10.1215/10757163-1496516  © 2012 by Nka Publications (left to right) Nelson Stevens, Napoleon Jones-Henderson...

... Jarrell and Uche Okeke, Nelson Ste- dech Teklaab, and Wosene Kosrof of Ethiopia, and vens and Valente Malangatana (Mozambique), and Ansoumana Diedhiou, Bocar Diong, and Boubacar Napoleon Jones-­Henderson and Jimoh Buraimoh. Coulibaly of Senegal. Akili Ron Anderson, Murry...

... in the United States, Giddings, P. J. (2005). Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida 1889-1918. New York: Negro Universities Press. B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching. New Orleans, La.: Amistad. Nelson, M., and Lardy, P. (2005). A Wreath...

... are a kind of fabrication. After all, No Artist has developed the Institute for the Analysis what Steven Nelson identifies as the “parabolic analysis were flattened in No Place and each Place was not a physical place but a complex fic - of Empathy in order to maintain a connection to paradox...

..., and did not always look “pretty,” but it was beautiful in its legacy. Beautiful Black Cloud of Modern Egyptian Art Alex Dika Seggerman D uring an evening in March 1938, a futurist dinner was held in the elite neighborhood of Zamalek in Cairo. Nelson Morpurgo, an Italian lawyer and Futurist poet based...

...). 2 Rebecca Peabody, Steven Nelson, and Dominic Thomas, eds., Visualizing Empire: Africa, Europe and the Politics of Representation (Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2021). 3 ACHAC was founded by Pascal Blanchard, editor of one of the most egregious works of recent colonial study, Sexe, Race...

... the Global South. This textbook for a survey course is one among multiple initiatives to treat art history globally, and there are other textbooks for more specialized classes. In the seminal essay from 1997 The Map of Art History, Robert Nelson uses art history survey textbooks as a key piece of evidence...

... globally in economics, politics, and immigration. on African soil was a landmark, but I felt anxious During this time of chaos, there were many ways to to be in South Africa, so recently under apartheid. answer the questions posed by a changing Africa: It was around the time that Nelson Mandela...

..., and the intergenerational transmission of pain that continues to resonate in South Africa today. The dismantling of apartheid began in the 1990s with negotiations between the apartheid government and anti-apartheid activists, ultimately leading to the first democratic elections in 1994, which saw Nelson Mandela become...