...Salah Hassan Copyright © 1999 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 1999 Little Big Horn on the Seine Salah Hassan on Ousmane Sow's Epic...

...Olu Oguibe Copyright © 1999 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 1999 FROM THE EDITOR Olu Oguibe jdt^k usmane Sow's appearance on the banks...

... that artists have of seldom fit• L6, a student of the internationally acclaimed Ousmane Sow. ting into exact categories, one would have to conclude that on First time exhibitor Moataz Nasr of Egypt, one of the stars of this showing at least, perhaps there is a little...

... in which he described their ideological and political stance. The declaration had become necessary by that time. According to Breton, the surrealists were being unjustly accused of sowing confusion and, for more than a year, had been the target of concealed hostility from certain quarters in the Party.1...

... of our ethnic group. The artists who were present at the The seeds of a new “self” were sowed in this fertile meeting consisted of painters, printmakers, textile landscape on which the founders of AfriCOBRA designers, dress designers, photographers and sculp­ had toiled. We began to agitate...

..., and Amadou Sow of country to define and articulate both long and short Senegal; Zerihun Yetmgeta of Ethiopia; and Lyolo term objectives, [and to] plan and develop strategies M’Puanga of Zaire at Dak’Art ’92 in Senegal. that would help to chart the [future] direction of In 1971 AfriCOBRA artists met...

... that become one with them, miraculous weapons as words, magical words, words whispered by Soukounia (spirits in Martinique) in the middle of the night. No wonder then that Tropiques was shut down by the fascist Vichy regime. When the governor was right in accusing Césaire and his coeditors for sowing...

..., 1854,” in Liberian Dreams, 199. 8 Ibid. 9 My reading of View of Monrovia from the Anchorage, Washington’s description of the foliage, and the history of trans- plantation is inspired and informed by Jill Casid, Sowing Empire: Landscape and Colonization (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota...

..., Alpha Sow, "Prolegomena" in UNESCO, Introduction to Martin Luther King, Jr., Bob Marley, Walter African Culture (Paris: UNESCO, 1970) pp. 13-14. Rodney, and Malcolm X—all of whom died in 6 Quoted in A. J...

.... 9 Ousmane Sow Hutchard, Viyé Diba; Plasticien de surface allows for the play of light just as it allows l’environnement (Saint Amand Montrond: Sépia Éditions-NEAS, for translucence. When plastic encloses something, 1994), 51. it allows the contents to be visible and emphasizes 10...

..., of the monumentalism of 2007). Senegalese artist Ousmane Sow's sculptures, the 8 Mark Godfrey and Vivienne Koorland, "A Conversation," in striking visual conceptualizations by Cameroon- Vivienne Koorland: Reisemalheurs...

... circled for the follow- I systematically set about landscaping our garden, ing decade, keeping accurate track of his kilometers making a park of it. I graded uneven ground into by shi ing small beans (plucked from the garden) interesting terraces, sowed lawns, planted for- from one pocket...

... circled for the follow- I systematically set about landscaping our garden, ing decade, keeping accurate track of his kilometers making a park of it. I graded uneven ground into by shi ing small beans (plucked from the garden) interesting terraces, sowed lawns, planted for- from one pocket...

... an of colonial racism, but to the extent that it inherited oppositional stance but by sowing the seeds of doubt from the Enlightenment the notion that the tax- and confusion in the beholder. Where Goya’s Los onomy of “race” provided a rational foundation for Caprichos (1779) — most notably The Sleep...

... and the various exhibitions of alarming abuse of the tragic events of 9/11 for a Without Sanctuary, the question is how to resist acts campaign of increasing attacks on domestic demo• of racial persecution without sowing illusions or cratic rights and a concomitant increase in the power being...

... different and of coming together that made possible intersubjec- repeated forms of coming-together that engaged tive encounters that would leave affective traces; many different actors in an exchange of ideas as provoke reflection; and might even sow the seeds part of an initiated process of potential...