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When the Generals Ruled and Black Culture Mattered Less

Abdias do Nascimento

When the Generals Ruled and Black Culture Mattered Less

Abdias do Nascimento was a prominent Afro-Brazilian scholar and radical theater maker who…

Douglas Hodge and Letitia Wright in Black Mirror (2011)

Netflix

Find Out Why Black Twitter Is Going Mad Over Black Mirror

Black Mirror's latest episode Black Museum is a fitting analogy for how Black…

Charles Nkosi. Soweto at dawn, 1979. Watercolor and ink; 42 x 44 cm. Fort Hare University De Beers Collection, taken from De Jager, E.J. 1992. Images of Man: Contemporary South African Black Art and artists, University of Fort Hare Press: Alice, pg 184. © Charles Nkosi.

C& and art21 magazine

The Black Theology in Sokhaya Charles Nkosi’s Paintings

Intertwining religion, Black existentialism, and the emergence of Black consciousness, Black theology is…

Scholars, Museum Directors, Curators and Artists at the International Conference on African Cultures, 1962. Courtesy of the National Gallery of Art in Zimbabwe.

A Groundbreaking Congress in Zimbabwe

How the ICAC Highlighted the Global Influence of Artists from Africa in 1962

In the 1960s in Southern Rhodesia, the International Congress of African Culture made…

Ben Enwonwu © The Ben Enwonwu Foundation

Conference: Positioning Nigerian Modernism

Unveiling Hidden Truths

Honoring Ben Enwonwu at Tate Modern with the international conference “Positioning Nigerian Modernism,”…

Henry Tayali, Destiny, 1975-80, oil on canvas, 58cm x 89cm. Courtesy of Zukas Family

Focus Zambia: Henry Tayali

Outside the Spotlight

C& author Andrew Mulenga remembers an artist that has shaped the contemporary Zambian…

Délio Jasse, The Lost Chapter, Nampula, 1963, 2016. Photographic emulsion and screenprint on Fabriano paper. Courtesy the artist and Tiwani Contemporary, London

C& and Aperture Magazine

Délio Jasse’s Endless Archive

Looking to vintage photographs and alternative processes, the Angolan Portuguese artist engages the…

School of Engineering at KNUST (Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology), Kumasi (Ghana), 1956. Photo: James Cubitt. Courtesy of Alexia Webster.

C& Print Issue #7

Department of Now

The teaching methods at Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology has…

Amira Moraloki, FAKA, 2017. Courtesy the artist and FAKA

C& and Aperture Magazine

Screen Legends

South Africa’s new media artists are transforming the digital world. Khanya Mashabela explores…

Lubaina Himid, A Fashionable Marriage, 1986. Exhibition view, The Place Is Here, Nottingham Contemporary, 2017. Photo Andy Keate. Courtesy of the artist and Hollybush Gardens.

Post-Brexit Perspectives

The Place Is Here. The Time Is Now.

An exhibition at Nottingham Contemporary examined just how the neglected discourse around artists…

Issa Samb/Joe Ouakam and installation view of Issa Samb's work © Ibrahima Thiam

Obituary

Issa Samb “Joe Ouakam” All-Round Artist

Our author Aboubacar Demba Cissokho pays tribute to iconic artist Issa Samb who…

Kanye West. Famous, 2016. Video Still.

Pop Culture & Fine Art

Kanye West and the Hyperrealism of Fame

Artists like Vincent Desiderio or Ron Mueck are famous for their exploration of…


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