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African Arts articles from March 2007
A quarterly journal devoted to the contemporary and traditional arts of Africa. Includes sculpture in wood, metal, ceramic, ivory, and stone, as well as work in fiber, hide, mud, and other materials. Covers architecture, arts of personal adornment, contem
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African Arts archives from March 2007
Forty years of African Arts.(first word)
March 22, 2007... Celebrate African Arts, now entering into its fortieth year! Launched ambitiously in 1967, pledging a bilingual survey of all the traditional and contemporary arts--sculpture, painting, architecture, poetry and other literature, theater, and...
On Ouidah asen.(dialogue)(West African art)(Critical essay)
March 22, 2007... In 1989 Suzanne Preston Blier published an article based on her close reading of the field materials compiled by Melville and Frances Herskovits during their 1931 sojourn in Dahomey. Received negatively by some of Herskovits's close scholarly...
Philip J. Shea: (July 30, 1945-April 5, 2006).(In memoriam)
March 22, 2007... It is not very often that one encounters a truly transnational citizen--one whose worldview and life choices reflect the concept of cosmopolitan citizenship. So it was devastating to those of us who had the good fortune of knowing and...
Ceramic arts in Africa.
March 22, 2007... It has been nearly two decades since African Arts published the special issue on African ceramic arts edited by Maria Berns (1989, vol. 22, no. 2). Since then, there has been noteworthy collaborative research on ceramics in particular regions,...
Early ceramics from Calabar, Nigeria: towards a history of nsibidi.
March 22, 2007... Recent excavations in the region of Calabar, Nigeria, have brought to light an important corpus of archaeological ceramics, including vessels, headrests, and anthropomorphic objects. Interpretation of these ceramics bears upon our understanding...
Marks of identity: potters of the Folona (Mali) and their "mothers".
March 22, 2007... A potter of the Folona region in southern Mali marks the wet clay of her pots with a unique sign, a mark that is passed down from mother to daughter along with favorite tools of the trade and the technical knowledge to employ them (FIGS. 1-2)....
Containers of life: pottery and social relations in the Grassfields (Cameroon).(Viewpoint essay)
March 22, 2007... Pottery production has been a central activity in the kingdom of Babessi since precolonial times. Used extensively as daily cookware, ritual containers, and prestige items throughout the western Grassfields region of Cameroon, Babessi pots have...
Namsifueli Nyeki: a Tanzanian potter extraordinaire.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2007... In the highland town of Lushoto, in the Usambara Mountains of northeastern Tanzania, a market day rarely passes without local potters parading into town carrying loads of earthenware on their heads. Although those who are not regular visitors...
Metaphors, myths and making pots: Chewa clay arts.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2007... In this essay I argue that pottery and other clay forms made by Chewa women in central Malawi collectively reflect recurring themes that resonate throughout Chewa society (FIG 1). My approach is to seek relatedness, searching for the likeness...
Interview with Clive Sithole.(Interview)
March 22, 2007... Clive Sithole was born in 1971, in Soweto. He attended the London International School of Fashion Design in Johannesburg and established a fashion business. In 1996 he moved to Durban and joined the Babumbi Clay Project, where his prominence...
The women of Kalabougou (Mali).(photo essay)(Viewpoint essay)
March 22, 2007... Kalabougou is a village across the Niger River from Segou, Mali The village dates from the time of the Bamana Empire, which thrived in the region from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. There are four quarters in the village, each...
Ewe ceramics as the visualization of Vodun.(research note)
March 22, 2007... On February 12, 2005, members of a Yeve (1) Vodun shrine in the Ewe village of Anlo-Afiadenyigba in southeastern Ghana paid their due respect to Mami Wata as part of their month-long ceremony in honor of Heviesso, the powerful and omnipresent...
Pottery-making in Bonakire, Ghana.(research note)(Critical essay)
March 22, 2007... Bonakire is a predominantly Mo-speaking village located approximately 17km (10 1/2 miles) northwest of the ancient archaeological site of Begho in the Brong-Ahafo region of north-central Ghana. (1) In 1979 I conducted a brief ethnographic study...
Snap Judgments: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography.
March 22, 2007... Snap Judgments New Positions in Contemporary African Photography
International Center of Photography March 10-May 28, 2006
"Snap Judgments: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography," curated by Okwui Enwezor, filled the...
Afrik'arts, Trimestriel d'analyses et de reflexions sur les arts visuels.(Periodical review)
March 22, 2007... Afrik'arts, Trimestriel d'analyses et de reflexions sur les arts visuels
Issues 1-3, August and December 2005, May 2006. First issue in French, second and third in French and English
Subscriptions 18,000 CFA, 45 Euros, 55 US$, 75 Can$,...
Corrections.(Correction notice)
March 22, 2007... Three typos crept into the review, "Asking for Eyes: The Visual Voice of Southeast Africa," by Barbara Blackmun, 39, 1 (Spring 2006):84.
1. The subtitle should read, "Selections from the SANA Art Foundation."
2. The William D. Cannon...