...Solomon Deressa Copyright © 2000 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2000 3 x 62 5/8 in. (143.8 x 159.1 cm). Collection of The North Carolina Museum of Ai SKUNDER IN CONTEXT...

... they are bound by ancestry, and an idea that elicits powerful aesthetic and symbolic action. Copyright © 2013 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2013 Contemporary African Artists and the Pan-African Imaginary Skunder Boghossian, Kwabena...

... - the South African artist Ernest Mancoba and the Ethiopian artist Skunder Boghossian - passed away as we were preparing for this issue of Nka. We are proud to include in this issue a moving tribute to Mancoba by Elza Miles, the South T African scholar and art critic. We are also extremely...

..., respect. In Sunrise (2001), a brilliant first-generation pioneering artists who Skunder taught there for only three yellow sun occupies half of the work studied at least in part...

... as well. The loss and dislocation, but also with nostalgia a few years, Atnafu returned to Howard dynamics of her work can thus be seen as a for the glorious past. Like other Ethiopian University in 1994, this time to pursue her dialogue with Skunder and other pioneers...

... took strong interest in the continent. flourish(ed) in Europe and the United States, such Consider, for example, the colonial imaginaries of as Amir Nour and Skunder Boghossian. Their work early trends in the Ethiopianist movement of the not only impacted views of Africa and its diaspora...

...Salah Hassan Copyright © 1995 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 1995 THE MODERNIST EXPERIENCE IN AFRICAN ART Skunder Boghassian.Time Cycle II, 1982 (Embossed bark cloth-30" x 40 Collection of the artist. VISUAL...

... to the remark- of his contemporaries such as Ibrahim El Salahi, able period of decolonization of the continent Demas Nwoko, Farid Belkahia, Gazbia Sirry, that effectively began with the end of the Second Skunder Boghossian, Papa Ibra Tall, Kamala Ishaq, World War. It was this generation that more or less...

... as leading figures in the international art scene. Moreover, the journal’s dedication to rethinking and generating scholarship on the work of modern African artists has yielded important texts on Moses Tladi, Ben Enwonwu, Skunder Boghossian, Ibrahim El-Salahi, Gebre Kristos Desta, Gazbia Sirry...

... Arts in Dakar 1966 and FESTAC ’77 that dominated the works of these artists. These in Lagos, Nigeria, exposed African American art- have ranged from responding to the visual tropes ists to African masters such as Skunder Boghossian, of racist and stereotypical representation, to con- Malangatana...

..., and forms from traditional African and Arabic sources as (Mozambique), Skunder Boghossian (Ethiopia), Gerard Sekoto (South well as other sources, especially European ones, to create a unique Africa), Uzo Egonu (Nigeria), Bruce Onobrokpaye (Nigeria), Iba Ndiaye painterly language...

... Over the past twenty-­six years AfriCOBRA has Of the many artists known to AfriCOBRA, held around fifty exhibitions in diverse venues —  Skunder Boghossian, from the Horn of Africa from activist community centers to mainstream in the east, and Papa Ibra Tall, from the western universities...

..., pottery, painting, print- audience. Its success here allowed me to begin to making, tapestries, etc. — it did include some impor- acquire contemporary arts of Africa for the perma- tant artists whose names you will all know: Bruce nent collection, which has become a major institu- Onobrakpeya, Skunder...