...Wangechi Mutu © 2021 by Nka Publications 2021 Voice and Visibility Wangechi Mutu It was Audre Lorde who said, My silences had not Wangechi Mutu, Outstretched, 2019. Paper pulp, wood glue, soil, charcoal, protected me. Your silence will not protect you. 1 pigment, and feathers, 35 7/8 x 63 3...

...Tumelo Mosaka Copyright © 2000 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2000 LIBERATED VOICES Contemporary Art...

... over the visual yields a polyphone chit-chat izontal and the vertical, the straight and the curved, the flat and of voices, murmuring their own ideologies, political attitudes, the bodily. This seemingly benign, stable semiotic dimension of stereotypes, cliches, and religious...

..., designed for religious Kim Levin is an art critic who works and lives in New purposes to call forth the spirit of the goddess, is arguably some• York City; she writes for the Village Voice and is the thing other than "contemporary" art. Both hopelessly romanti• President...

... , held at the Sharjah Art Museum in 2017, captured the artist’s restless artistic spirit with a display of the intertextuality and multiplicity of voices through which Morsi expresses his creative talent and endless experimentation. This article references the Sharjah show and offers a survey of Morsi’s...

... skillfully navigates the perspective of the past and its remnants in the interpretation of the present, the visual metaphors connect personally with the spectator. Seemingly faint voices transpire from individual panels, and sounds communicate with the viewer through particular stories. Likewise, impressions...

... conscious in their politics and gave voice and vision to it. It accesses the black consciousness of each artist within select works by carefully analyzing and historicizing each one. It also records the lives of all four artists within BC’s parent body, the South African Students’ Organisation (SASO). Each...

... joined many other voices at the time in advocating for African unity, but he did so with a global perspective. He argued that Africans must join together to save not only Africa, but the rest of the Earth as well. Boubou Hama Niger Western industrial dehumanization African unity National Assembly...

... portraits and landscape scenes in which she visualizes black- rather than white-centered histories, narratives, and memories. Creating images that are “louder than words,” Walker betrays her lifelong determination to give “voice to the voiceless and power to the powerless.” Copyright © 2016 Nka: Journal...

... forms, from the revered Afro bloc Ilê Aiyê in Bahia, Brazil, to the carnivals of Mindelo, Cape Verde; Bissau, Guinea-Bissau; and the Carnival of Vitória in Luanda, Angola. These celebrations highlight the power of Carnival to amplify marginalized voices and solidify national identities in areas of rich...

..., and then remake—jazz. In must then, at whatever remove, acknowledge the the process of making jazz new again, in perfecting, quite splendid Trumpet Kings, which features trum- honing, seeking a new iteration of his voice, what is peters Harry Edison, Dizzy Gillespie, Roy Eldridge, equally audible...

... 2014 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2014 Sonia Boyce Sound and Collaboration Institute of International Visual Arts (Iniva) image and sound exhibition modernism DISSONANT DIVAS Gilane Tawadros breathless, halting male voice breaks the The three-screen installation...

... first line, and winter bark “poplars lean backward,” announces the connection the rains till the hillside to the world evoked by Holiday’s voice in the final while the poppies mope line of the opening stanza of the song: “Strange where is my woman now fruit hanging from...

... on an throughout the Earth he was a force who continu- exhibition called All the World s Future an appoint- ously challenged the status quo through work fueled ment that allowed him to interrupt and decentralize by his intention to create a better world for human- the historical trajectory of art through voices...

... tradition of call-and-response brought over by enslaved people, New York artist Charlotte Ka, sounds a call. Through her multimedia exhibition, "Cowries, Crosses and Black-eyed Peas," Ka voices metaphorical calls to awaken, to heal, and to hope. Like the musicalform, the aesthetic...

... Everyshadow, fold, and DOI 10.1215/10757163-4271838DOI Publications ©2017 Nka by Journal of Contemporary African Art African Contemporary of Journal Me, You and Our Voice...

... and thereby, in effect, give her a viable voice. Already, then, we are knee-­deep in the muck of racial politics in multicultural South Foe, 2008. Poster multiple (back), 16 × 20 in. Africa and of the deeper historical trajectories of Photo: Brendan Fernandes Black Atlantic slavery, commerce...

... unknown in the Anglophone world. tion is extinguished and becomes spectral. From the first line to the last, the reader of the I do not remember exactly when I first read Notebook is captivated by a singular voice. It Aime Cesaire's most celebrated work, the long...