... 2013 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2013 FRANTZ FANON’S OEUVRES A Metamorphic Thought Achille Mbembe i y years ago, Frantz Fanon passed away a er ment of blood” and “ruthlessness.” It caused...

...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...

... of the Cock (2006) Cherinet con- she appears to have prepared the meal the men have tinues her interrogation of the distinction between recently consumed. The room is dark; only the men reflective thought and immediate perception, this and the dinner table are illuminated. A camera cir- time taking...

... and the Black Phallus (2008) and coeditor, with destructed because ‘Black’ is not an ideology and so the unity gained under that finally nationalist but reductionist label, Lisa Gail Collins, of New Thoughts on the Black though...

.... Nevertheless, deviating from all of these worldviews, the author concludes with a short reflection, inspired by two films, on an alternative to cosmopolitanism that he calls cosmoethics , which employs ethics as the guiding principle of thought and action and commits to a practice that stays in close contact...

... the writings of Georges Henein, Ramses Younan, Kamel Telmisany, and era poets, illuminating the ideology and creative output of Egyptian surrealist artists and thought leaders across more than five decades. Those Who Shaped the Future In Memory of Anwar Kamel Hisham Geshta Translated by Dina Hussein W...

...Bachir El Sibaei; Ila El Amam Georges Henein was an important pioneer of modernism in Egypt, who played a critical role in the cultural and artistic movement of the country, despite critics who tried to distance him from contemporary Egyptian thought under the guise that he was a Francophone writer...

... seventy countries, including the North African delegations absent from the Senegalese event. The aims of the festival were “to revive and promote Black and African values and civilization; to illustrate the contributions that Black and African peoples have made to the universal currents of thoughts...

..., and a more hierarchical composition. These works seem transitional, as if he is feeling his way toward pieces that are more spacious, sparse, and potentially introspective. Now that he is in his fifties, there is a synthesis in his thought that is looking for new outlets in his visual work. But one hopes he...

.... This changes the public imaginary version of Nanny, who was thought to have been well into her sixties when she battled the British colonists. Cox’s depictions of Nanny in various staged tableaus draw attention to the multifaceted nature of this little-known female figure and remind viewers of the legacy...

...Susan Vogel This thoughtful one-person exhibition by the art historian Yukiya Kawaguchi, in the ethnographic museum in Osaka, lands at the intersection of art and ethnology, Africa and internationalism. The exhibition is masterfully curated and beautifully installed, but the premise stated...

... and animal that during Enlightenment thought was metaphorically converted into an intrahuman distinction of insurmountable differences among diverse “races.” If her achievement is remarkable for the quiet way its terrible and horrifying content is put forward without judgment or finger-pointing, it is all...

..., history, and personal experience, seamlessly brought together in multimedia works that reveal how electronic media shapes identity and perception. Eshetu’s work stems from the combined sensibilities of filmmaker, photographer, documentarian, and sound artist. His thoughts and reflections about art...

... Commerciale, and that is where I am, until now. RN: Who were the artists that inspired you in, then, Zaire? CS: Frankly, I didn t have a role model. At the beginning, it was as if I existed all alone in the world. It was just after several years [of being an artist] that I heard about others. I thought I had...

... and affected the lives countless admirers. In his last works A Hungry Heart and Eyes with Winged Thoughts: Poetry and Images, Parks...

... May 2020126 Nka DOI 10.1215/10757163-8308246 © 2020 by Nka Publications COSMOPOLITAN Olabimpe Olaniyan, The Door of No Return, 2019. Digital illustration. Courtesy and © the artist Olaniyan Nka 127 Tejumola Olaniyan INTEREST RATES T his is a report of a thought-experiment that began in one of my...

...• uniquely site-specific installations are thought out and executed like novels and hand-crafted artworks: each document potential• within the contingencies of the geographic and institutional cir• ly hosts a transient center. Always moving, distracted, we are cumstances...

... as a Négritude was utterly necessary. I have always been hesi- unified Peul or Senegalese people. For example, there’s very tant to subscribe to Négritude completely, because I thought intense mestizaje between Senegal and Mali. So this aspect that it was nonetheless a kind of general idea. Blacks...

... changed somewhat, as the paintings was another matter. anxieties in the West about the There was very little in the way of po• virtue of its own thought no longer litical content, at least in the manner produces only indifference or some• to which...

... a black writer or com• that was doing something to me. I hadn't really poser during my studies at high school. thought about it, but the music had probably the initial effect before anything visual did, cause I had never SCB...