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  • The Face of Sunset

    African Art of Life, Transformation, and Death

    by Arthur Bourgeois, Scott Rodolitz ...
    In Central African thought, Sunset is the time of uncertainty and transformation – the time between day and night, black and white. The Color red, in the triadic system is often the transformative color, acting as the bridge between the two worlds; light and darkness, life and death, good and evil. The face of Sunset is the face of transformation; the face of that which changes things from one ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • One Hundred Sonnets

    by Arthur Bull ...
    This collection, Arthur Bull sixth poetry book, isa series of mediations on topics that range from from history to art, justice to love philosophy to laughter, grief to memory, each one a tiny essaie. The chapters titles are: philosophy, history, laughter, art, nature, grief, memory. ... Read more

    $15.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Skidmark Calligraphy

    by Arthur Bull ...
    Arthur Bull has selected the best of his published poetry and has added new works to show his engagement with the world, great minds, and important causes over the past thirty years. He writes, "For some poets, making a selection like this is apparently a very difficult task, but that has not been the case for me: I simply chose the ones I like. This is a bit like having a favourite mutt that ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Tuareg Jewelry

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    by Helene E. Hagan, Lucile C. Myers ...
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  • A Dance of Assassins

    Performing Early Colonial Hegemony in the Congo

    by Allen F. Roberts ...
    A Dance of Assassins presents the competing histories of how Congolese Chief Lusinga and Belgian Lieutenant Storms engaged in a deadly clash while striving to establish hegemony along the southwestern shores of Lake Tanganyika in the 1880s. While Lusinga participated in the east African slave trade, Storms' secret mandate was to meet Henry Stanley's eastward march and trace "a white line across ... Read more

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  • African Stories by Moonlight

    by Celestine E. Ebegbulem ...
    Introduction to African Stories by Moonlight. The most memorable evenings I had as a child were those in which, together with other children, I listened to adults tell us stories which were often accompanied with rhythmic and delightful songs. When I started raising my own family in the city, my children looked forward to those nights when we would regale them with those stories and songs. I ... Read more

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  • The Facet of Black Culture

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    by Elias Yussif ...
    The Facet of Black Culture is a very unique book that talks about culture of the black people, the birth of a person to his final departure to our ancestors and how his property will be shared if he or she has any. This book begins with the brief history of some ethnic groups in Africa, particularly Ghana. In this chapter you will learn how some of the ethnic groups moved from their original ... Read more

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  • Public Art in South Africa

    Bronze Warriors and Plastic Presidents

    Edited by Kim Miller, Brenda Schmahmann ...
    Series series African Expressive Cultures
    How does South Africa deal with public art from its years of colonialism and apartheid? How do new monuments address fraught histories and commemorate heroes of the struggle? Across South Africa, statues commemorating figures such as Cecil Rhodes have provoked heated protests, while new works commemorating icons of the liberation struggle have also sometimes proved contentious. In this lively ... Read more

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  • Postcolonial Modernism

    Art and Decolonization in Twentieth-Century Nigeria

    by Chika Okeke-Agulu ...
    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 traces the artistic, intellectual, and critical networks in several Nigerian cities. Zaria is particularly ... Read more

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  • Portraiture and Photography in Africa

    by Raoul Birnbaum, Jürg Schneider, Erin Haney, Erika Nimis, Z. S. Strother, Christraud M. Geary, Isolde Brielmaer, Liam Buckley, Jean Borgatti, Rowland O. Abiodun, Candace M. Keller, Till Förster ...
    Beautifully illustrated, Portrait Photography in Africa offers new interpretations of the cultural and historical roles of photography in Africa. Twelve leading scholars look at early photographs, important photographers' studios, the uses of portraiture in the 19th century, and the current passion for portraits in Africa. They review a variety of topics, including what defines a common culture of ... Read more

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  • In Senghor's Shadow

    Art, Politics, and the Avant-Garde in Senegal, 1960–1995

    by Elizabeth Harney, Nicholas Thomas ...
    Series series Objects/Histories
    In Senghor’s Shadow is a unique study of modern art in postindependence Senegal. Elizabeth Harney examines the art that flourished during the administration of Léopold Sédar Senghor, Senegal’s first president, and in the decades since he stepped down in 1980. As a major philosopher and poet of Negritude, Senghor envisioned an active and revolutionary role for modern artists, and he created a well ... Read more

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