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  • Gareth Nyandoro by Nyandoro, Gareth
    Gareth Nyandoro

    Gareth Nyandoro

    Gareth Nyandoro is noted for his large works on paper, which often spill out of their two-dimensional format and into installations that include paper scraps and objects found in the street markets of Harare, where he lives and works. The artist's primary source of...
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  • Beautiful Black Girls Coloring Book: Beautiful Women Portrait With Flowers, Leaves by Lily Sally
    Lily Sally

    Beautiful Black Girls Coloring Book: Beautiful Women Portrait With Flowers, Leaves

    Celebrate the beauty of diversity with this inspiring coloring book! Featuring stunning illustrations of black girls of all ages, this book is perfect for children and adults who want to celebrate and uplift diversity. With this book, you'll get: 30 unique illustrations Inspiring images...
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  • African Art as Philosophy: Senghor, Bergson, and the Idea of Negritude by Diagne, Souleymane Bachir
    Souleymane Bachir Diagne

    African Art as Philosophy: Senghor, Bergson, and the Idea of Negritude

    This critically acclaimed study offers a distinct, incisive look at how Senegalese philosopher Senghor sees in African art the most acute expression of Bergson's philosophy. Léopold Sédar Senghor (1906-2001) was a Senegalese poet and philosopher who in 1960 also became the first president of...
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  • Georgia O'Keeffe: To See Takes Time by O'Keeffe, Georgia
    Georgia O'Keeffe

    Georgia O'Keeffe: To See Takes Time

    A revelatory new volume on the American modernist's lesser-known works on paper, reuniting many serial works for the first timeRecalling a charcoal she made in 1916, Georgia O'Keeffe later wrote, "I have made this drawing several times--never remembering that I had made it before--and...
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  • I Hope So: Sane Wadu by Wadu, Sane
    Sane Wadu

    I Hope So: Sane Wadu

    The first retrospective monograph on one of Kenya's foremost living artists I Hope So: Sane Wadu follows the expansion and development of Wadu's conceptual preoccupations, beginning with an early interest in bucolic scenes of pastoral life which has evolved into incisive social commentary, a...
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  • Awol Erizku: Mystic Parallax by Erizku, Awol
    Awol Erizku

    Awol Erizku: Mystic Parallax

    Mystic Parallax is the first major monograph by rising interdisciplinary artist Awol Erizku. Working across photography, film, video, painting, and installation, his work references and re-imagines African American and African visual culture, from hip hop vernacular to Nefertiti, while nodding to traditions of spirituality...
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  • Women by Ndiaye, Tacko
    Tacko Ndiaye

    Women

    WOMEN is a powerful visual representation of the journey that women travel. It combines aesthetic beauty, symbols, and visual metaphors to trigger emotions and responses to enduring gender inequalities in all areas of life. This book is an urgent call to action that echoes...
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  • Dynasty and Divinity: Ife Art in Ancient Nigeria by Drewal, Henry John
    Henry John Drewal

    Dynasty and Divinity: Ife Art in Ancient Nigeria

    Dynasty and Divinity presents a major part of the extraordinary corpus of ancient Ife art in terra-cotta, stone, and metal, dating from the ninth to the fifteenth centuries. Artists at Ife, the ancient city-state of the Yoruba people of West Africa (located in present-day...
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  • Mwili, Akili Na Roho / Body, Mind, and Spirit: Ten Figurative Painters from East Africa by Handa, Don
    Don Handa

    Mwili, Akili Na Roho / Body, Mind, and Spirit: Ten Figurative Painters from East Africa

    This catalogue showcases a multigenerational group of African artists varied in their backgrounds, thematic concerns, and formal strategies and offers a starting point for critical engagement with the history of painting in East Africa. Mwili, Akili Na Roho: Ten Figurative Painters from East Africa...
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  • Sci-Fi Portraits: Black Women Grayscale Coloring Book by Jones, N. D.
    N. D. Jones

    Sci-Fi Portraits: Black Women Grayscale Coloring Book

    Looking for a unique and captivating coloring book that combines science fiction and fantasy themes with stunning grayscale portraits of Black women? Look no further than this one-of-a-kind coloring book, which features intricate, AI-generated illustrations of strong, powerful women that are sure to inspire...
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  • The Pride Of Africa by Lecapois, Teejay
    Teejay Lecapois

    The Pride Of Africa

    Long ago, the Ancients wielded absolute power thanks to Technology which rendered them almost God-like. The Planet Earth was theirs to rule from their colossal metallic cities. In their hubris, they destroyed themselves. North America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Oceania, Australia, Latin America...
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  • The New African Portraiture: Shariat Collections: Kunsthalle Krems by Steininger, Florian
    Florian Steininger

    The New African Portraiture: Shariat Collections: Kunsthalle Krems

    A treasure trove of portraits from more than 20 African and African-descendant contemporary paintersThis catalog showcases over 20 figurative artists from the African continent and diaspora. While the artists assembled represent a diverse array of styles, they all explore complex questions of identity, aesthetics...
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  • Where Is Africa: Volume 1 by Admassu, Emanuel
    Emanuel Admassu

    Where Is Africa: Volume 1

    A multidisciplinary illustrated reader unpacking imperialist representations of Africa by promoting dialogue, memory and everyday practice, and reimagining cultural institutions and the arts--from museums to academia, from architecture to artIn 2017, curator and art historian Anita N. Bateman and architect and professor Emanuel Admassu...
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  • Meschac Gaba by Greenberg, Kerryn
    Kerryn Greenberg

    Meschac Gaba

    Born in Benin in 1961, Meschac Gaba moved to the Netherlands in 1996 to take up resi­dency at the Rijksakademie. There, he conceived Museum of Contemporary African Art 1997-2002, an ambitious work that took five years to complete and cemented his reputation as one...
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  • Insignificant Things: Amulets and the Art of Survival in the Early Black Atlantic by Rarey, Matthew Francis
    Matthew Francis Rarey

    Insignificant Things: Amulets and the Art of Survival in the Early Black Atlantic

    In Insignificant Things Matthew Francis Rarey traces the history of the African-associated amulets that enslaved and other marginalized people carried as tools of survival in the Black Atlantic world from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. Often considered visually benign by white Europeans, these...
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  • Postcolonial Modernism: Art and Decolonization in Twentieth-Century Nigeria by Okeke-Agulu, Chika
    Chika Okeke-Agulu

    Postcolonial Modernism: Art and Decolonization in Twentieth-Century Nigeria

    Written by one of the foremost scholars of African art and featuring 129 color images, Postcolonial Modernism chronicles the emergence of artistic modernism in Nigeria in the heady years surrounding political independence in 1960, before the outbreak of civil war in 1967. Chika Okeke-Agulu...
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  • Central Nigerian Art Revisited: Mumuye and Surrounding Peoples by Strybol, Jan
    Jan Strybol

    Central Nigerian Art Revisited: Mumuye and Surrounding Peoples

    - Jan Strybol examines the sculptural traditions of a number of peoples in central Nigeria. In addition to wood sculptures, he also pays attention to objects in bronze, iron, terracotta and other materials; art forms that have been very underexposed and have almost vanished...
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  • Language, Thought, Art and Existence: New and Recollected Creative Nonfictions and Essays:: New and Recollected Creative Nonfictions and Essays by Mwanaka, Tendai R.
    Tendai R. Mwanaka

    Language, Thought, Art and Existence: New and Recollected Creative Nonfictions and Essays:: New and Recollected Creative Nonfictions and Essays

    This is a multidisciplinary collection comprising 21 critical and personal essays and several artworks and photos that centre around the topics of language, thought (philosophies), art and existence. Seventeen essays appeared in the previous edition of this book, and I have added four new...
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  • Egypt: the Book of Time by Gfoeller, Michael
    Michael Gfoeller

    Egypt: the Book of Time

    Egypt: the Book of time is the most innovative book on ancient Egypt to appear in many years. It contains beautiful color photographs of ancient temples and monuments and their hieroglyphic inscriptions, along with English translations of the inscriptions done by the author. This...
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  • adult coloring books for african american women: coloring book,8.5''x11'', african american coloring books for teens/african american coloring books f by Rowe, Hildegard
    Hildegard Rowe

    adult coloring books for african american women: coloring book,8.5''x11'', african american coloring books for teens/african american coloring books f

    Why You Will Love this BookRelaxing Coloring Pages. Every page you color will pull you into a relaxing world where your responsibilities will seem to fade away...Beautiful Illustrations. We've included 100 unique images for you to express your creativity and make masterpieces. Which colors...
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  • Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum: All My Seven Faces by Sunstrum, Pamela Phatsimo
    Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum

    Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum: All My Seven Faces

    The first monograph on the decorative, Afrofuturist tableaux of Pamela Phatsimo SunstrumThis debut monograph on Botswana-born, Johannesburg- and Toronto-based artist Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum (born 1980) accompanies a mid-career survey at the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati (CAC). Presenting the largest display of works by the...
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  • Forest Wildlife: Wildlife Coloring Book by Adam, Jon
    Jon Adam

    Forest Wildlife: Wildlife Coloring Book

    Coloring Book with markerd-zone Featuring Beautiful Forest Animals, Birds, Trees, butterflies and Wildlife for Stress Relief and Relaxation40 hand-drawn images exclusively designed to stimulate your artistic ambition Enjoy with forest wildlife coloring book, you can create polished artwork in just a few easy steps...
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  • Wall Art Decor: African Proverbs: 50 Instant Ready to Frame Black & White African Proverbs Illustration Art Prints for Your Home & Off by P2g Solutions
    P2g Solutions

    Wall Art Decor: African Proverbs: 50 Instant Ready to Frame Black & White African Proverbs Illustration Art Prints for Your Home & Off

    Wall Art Decor: African Proverbs - Ready-to-Frame Black & White Art Prints GREAT GIFT IDEA: Features quotes, proverbs and wisdom from various parts of Africa including Nigeria, Ghana, Mali, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, and much more GREAT FOR ARTISTS - Decoupage, collage, & mixed media...
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  • Visual Arts in Cameroon. A Genealogy of Non-formal Training 1976-2014 by Schemmel, Annette
    Annette Schemmel

    Visual Arts in Cameroon. A Genealogy of Non-formal Training 1976-2014

    Annette Schemmel provides a highly illuminating case study of the major actors, discourses and paradigm that shaped the history of visual arts in Cameroon during the second part of the 20th century. Her book meticulously reconstructs the multiple ways of artistic knowledge acquisition -...
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  • Robin Rhode: Tension by Rhode, Robin
    Robin Rhode

    Robin Rhode: Tension

    The Cape Town-born, Berlin-based multidisciplinary artist Robin Rhode (born 1976) engages photography, performance, drawing and sculpture to create arrestingly beautiful narratives that are brought to life using materials such as soap, charcoal, chalk and paint. Coming of age in a newly post-apartheid South Africa,...
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  • Rabbit Coloring Book: Animal Stress-relief Coloring Book For Adults and Grown-ups by Balloon Publishing
    Balloon Publishing

    Rabbit Coloring Book: Animal Stress-relief Coloring Book For Adults and Grown-ups

    GREAT GIFT IDEAS COLOURING BOOKS FOR GROWN-UPS This incredible Adult Coloring Book by best-selling artist This book is the perfect way to relieve stress and while enjoying beautiful and highly detailed images. Product Details: Printed single sided on bright white paper Perfect for all...
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  • Gusii Soapstone Industry: Critical Issues, Opportunities, Challenges & Future Alternatives by Onyambu, Mallion K.
    Mallion K. Onyambu

    Gusii Soapstone Industry: Critical Issues, Opportunities, Challenges & Future Alternatives

    As is the case with most African indigenous industries, not much research has been done on the Gusii soapstone industry. Consequently, the main aim of this book is to fill the identified gap. Specifically, this book traces the origin of the Gusii soapstone industry,...
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  • The Legendary Uli Women of Nigeria: Their Life Stories in Signs, Symbols, and Motifs by Sanders, Robin Renee
    Robin Renee Sanders

    The Legendary Uli Women of Nigeria: Their Life Stories in Signs, Symbols, and Motifs

    "Ambassador Sanders imaginatively combine phenomenology and ethnographic methods to shine light on a world treasure worthy of both scholarly exploration and cultural amplification. Her scholarship, a mixture of style and substance, voyeuristically grants us access to the lives of the legendary Uli women of...
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  • The Great Ruwaha by Cormack, Ian
    Ian Cormack

    The Great Ruwaha

    Author: Ian CormackISBN-10: 147977135XISBN-13: 9781479771356Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/22/2013Pages: 224Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.74lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.51d
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  • Performing Power: Ethnic Citizenship, Popular Theatre and the Contest of Nationhood in Modern Kenya by Outa, George Odera
    George Odera Outa

    Performing Power: Ethnic Citizenship, Popular Theatre and the Contest of Nationhood in Modern Kenya

    Performing Power... attempts a comparative re]examination of the 'nation' and its various contestations from the perspective of the more recent popular theatre tradition in Kenya. It is substantially a re-think and interrogation of entrenched assumptions about the postcolony and its realities, often typified by...
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  • An African Journey Through Its Art by Lifshitz, Fima
    Fima Lifshitz

    An African Journey Through Its Art

    This book is about a journey; Africa is its destination. It offers exploration, discovery and learning about the continent and its inhabitants. The book provides a vicarious journey to Africa through its history and into the present day. It is an emotional and aesthetic...
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  • Insignificant Things: Amulets and the Art of Survival in the Early Black Atlantic by Rarey, Matthew Francis
    Matthew Francis Rarey

    Insignificant Things: Amulets and the Art of Survival in the Early Black Atlantic

    In Insignificant Things Matthew Francis Rarey traces the history of the African-associated amulets that enslaved and other marginalized people carried as tools of survival in the Black Atlantic world from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. Often considered visually benign by white Europeans, these...
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  • African Cultural Production and the Rhetoric of Humanism by Vetinde, Lifongo J.
    Lifongo J. Vetinde

    African Cultural Production and the Rhetoric of Humanism

    A broad range of cultural works produced in traditional and modern African communities shows a fundamental preoccupation with the concepts of communal solidarity and hospitality in societies driven by humanistic ideals. African Cultural Production and the Rhetoric of Humanism is an inaugural attempt to...
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  • The Occult & Folklore Coloring Book by Lore, Duchess Of
    Duchess Of Lore

    The Occult & Folklore Coloring Book

    An original coloring concept from cult artist Duchess of Lore. Discover over 30 intricate artworks to color in, from the brilliant mind of artist Duchess of Lore. With evocative subjects inspired by the occult, myth, legend and folklore, readers will find intricate, beautiful line...
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  • Modernist Art in Ethiopia by Giorgis, Elizabeth
    Elizabeth Giorgis

    Modernist Art in Ethiopia

    Short-listed for the Fage & Oliver Prize for outstanding scholarly work published on Africa.Finalist, African Studies Association Book Prize.Finalist, ASA Bethwell A. Ogot Prize for best book in east African studies.If modernism initially came to Africa through colonial contact, what does Ethiopia's inimitable historical...
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  • African Heritage Playing Cards Series: Adinkra Legacy by Menzise, Jeff
    Jeff Menzise

    African Heritage Playing Cards Series: Adinkra Legacy

    This book accompanies an original deck of playing cards created, designed, illustrated and produced by the author (only available via www.mindonthematter.com). These playing cards use African Adinkra symbols from the Akan culture in place of the spades, clubs, diamonds, and hearts. Each symbol and...
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  • Congo Style: From Belgian Art Nouveau to African Independence by Sacks, Ruth
    Ruth Sacks

    Congo Style: From Belgian Art Nouveau to African Independence

    Congo Style presents a postcolonial approach to discussing the visual culture of two now-notorious regimes: King Leopold II's Congo Colony and the state sites of Mobutu Sese Seko's totalitarian Za?e. Readers are brought into the living remains of sites once made up of ambitious...
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  • Art and Religion in Africa by Hackett, Rosalind I.
    Rosalind I. Hackett

    Art and Religion in Africa

    The artistic and religious traditions of Africa constitute a primary example of the intelletual and cultural vitality of this vast and fascinating continent. Art plays a vital role - especially when oral traditions dominate - in expressing and communicating ideas about the relationships between...
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  • Kudzanai-Violet Hwami by Hwami, Kudzanai-Violet
    Kudzanai-Violet Hwami

    Kudzanai-Violet Hwami

    The photo-collage-inspired paintings of rising star in contemporary figurative artLondon-based Zimbabwean artist Kudzanai-Violet Hwami (born 1993) makes large-scale, visually fragmented paintings, often featuring tender depictions of Black subjects. Known for her collage aesthetic, Hwami draws inspiration from archival and online imagery, as well as...
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  • Reshaping the Field: Arts of the African Diasporas on Display: Exhibition Histories 13 by Adusei-Poku, Nana
    Nana Adusei-Poku

    Reshaping the Field: Arts of the African Diasporas on Display: Exhibition Histories 13

    A critical anthology on the mediation of Blackness through pivotal historical art exhibitionsThe 13th volume of Afterall Books' Exhibition Histories series explores Black identity through key historical moments that have created ruptures in the framing of Blackness, emphasizing how Black artists have been viewed...
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  • From Bayreuth to Burkina Faso: Christoph Schlingensief's Opera Village Africa as Postcolonial Gesamtkunstwerk? by Hegenbart, Sarah
    Sarah Hegenbart

    From Bayreuth to Burkina Faso: Christoph Schlingensief's Opera Village Africa as Postcolonial Gesamtkunstwerk?

    Opera Village, a participatory art experiment by the late German multimedia artist Christoph Schlingensief, serves as a testing ground for a critical interrogation of Richard Wagner's notion of the Gesamtkunstwerk. Sarah Hegenbart traces the path from Wagner's introduction of the Gesamtkunstwerk in Bayreuth to...
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  • Denyse Thomasos: Just Beyond by Thomasos, Denyse
    Denyse Thomasos

    Denyse Thomasos: Just Beyond

    "Denyse Thomasos forged a form of abstraction that depicted the unspeakable and unimaginable confinement in slave ships and prisons." -Adrienne Edwards, New York TimesThis is the first ever retrospective publication on Trinidadian Canadian painter Denyse Thomasos (1964-2012). Thomasos' often monumental canvases with overlapping gridded...
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  • Omar Victor Diop by Mussai, Renee
    Renee Mussai

    Omar Victor Diop

    - Eloquent portraits and self-portraits by a contemporary African studio photographer that expand on the tradition of Malick Sedibé and Seydou Keita Since 2012, Dakar-born Omar Victor Diop has been hailed by the art world for his stunning, color-saturated studio photography. His conceptual projects...
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  • David Goldblatt: Ex Offenders at the Scene of Crime by Goldblatt, David
    David Goldblatt

    David Goldblatt: Ex Offenders at the Scene of Crime

    The origins of this book lie in David Goldblatt's (1930-2018) simple observation that many of his fellow South Africans are the victims of often violent crime. And so began Ex Offenders at the Scene of Crime, for which Goldblatt photographed criminal offenders and alleged...
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  • Israel's Transformative Black Artists by Moore, Charles
    Charles Moore

    Israel's Transformative Black Artists

    Israel's Transformative Black Artists is a book about 7 Ethiopian Jewish artists and their work. These artists practice and participate in Judaism, live in Israel (or at some point did), and create beautiful paintings, drawings, photographs, and graphic designs.Author: Charles MooreISBN-10: 1955496072ISBN-13: 9781955496070Publisher: Petite...
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  • Words: A Collation by Kentridge, William
    William Kentridge

    Words: A Collation

    An exploration of phrases and excerpts that inspire a major contemporary artist. Over the past several years, renowned South African artist William Kentridge has made a collection of particular phrases and sentences that have called out to him from the pages of whatever he...
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  • The Akhenaten Colossi of Karnak by Manniche, Lise
    Lise Manniche

    The Akhenaten Colossi of Karnak

    Some of the most fascinating sculptures to have survived from ancient Egypt are the colossal statues of Akhenaten, erected at the beginning of his reign in his new temple to the Aten at Karnak. Fragments of more than thirty statues are now known, showing...
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  • Archaeology and Oral Tradition in Malawi: Origins and Early History of the Chewa by Juwayeyi, Yusuf M.
    Yusuf M. Juwayeyi

    Archaeology and Oral Tradition in Malawi: Origins and Early History of the Chewa

    First comprehensive account of the origins and early history of the Chewa as revealed by oral tradition and archaeology that allows a more accurate picture of a pre-literate society. The Chewa are the largest ethnic group in Malawi, representing a third of the population...
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  • Sue Williamson and Lebohang Kganye: Tell Me What You Remember by Lewis, Emma
    Emma Lewis

    Sue Williamson and Lebohang Kganye: Tell Me What You Remember

    Two acclaimed South African artists offer a cross-generational dialogue on history, memory, and the power of self-narration Three decades after the dismantling of apartheid began, South Africa's so-called "born free" generation has reached adulthood and its artists have used their work to navigate their...
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  • The Geometries of Afro Asia: Art Beyond Solidarity by Kee, Joan
    Joan Kee

    The Geometries of Afro Asia: Art Beyond Solidarity

    A groundbreaking method for writing art history, using the language of geometry. How do we embark on a history of art from the assumption of a global majority, outside of essentializing categories like race or hollow proclamations of solidarity? With this book, Joan Kee...
    $95.00
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