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Colonialism Didn’t Just Steal Africa’s Art. It Took Africa’s Architecture, Too.

Historian Itohan I. Osayimwese's new book examines the legacy of cultural displacement and the looting of Africa’s built ...
Rutland Herald

Artist, Kehinde Wiley portrays effects of colonialism in Africa

SAN ANTONIO For Kehinde Wiley, a portrait can be a lot more than just a portrait. In "The World Stage: Africa Lagos Dakar," Wiley critiques the effects of African colonialism, transforms ordinary men ...

'It doesn't look African' - challenging stereotypes at Tate Modern

But here at Tate Modern, her focus is African Modernism and Afro-Surrealism - movements she says are rarely spotlighted in ...
Salon

Taylor Swift’s fantasy Africa: Glorifying colonialism in art is a political act, like it or not

Yes, there are more important things in the world than Taylor Swift videos. No, we do not have to be outraged over everything. But when one of the most powerful and influential artists in contemporary ...
The Economist

The struggle to tell the story of colonialism

IT IS A magnificently bizarre hybrid. Still officially called the Royal Museum for Central Africa, but better known as the Africa Museum, it cannot help but ooze colonial triumphalism, despite recent ...
The Conversation

Moffat Takadiwa’s landmark exhibition uses found materials to comment on Zimbabwe’s colonial hangover

Lifang Zhang is a PhD candidate in Art History and a member of Arts of Africa and Global Souths research programme at Rhodes University. Her PhD research is partly funded by NRF and Andrew W. Mellon ...
The Conversation

Congo Style: how two dictators shaped the DRC’s art, architecture and monuments

Ruth Sacks receives funding from the National Arts Council for research in the Congo conducted while undergoing a PhD at the University of the Witwatersrand. Years ago, while I was in Belgium on an ...