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  • A arte dos mundos negros

    História, teoria, crítica

    Uma perspectiva que atravessa o tempo, forjando uma história da arte pós-colonial aprofundada e abrangente. Os textos reunidos neste livro atestam o compromisso de Anne Lafont com as novas perspectivas da história da arte. Baseando-se em uma intensa atuação entre pesquisas, curadoria e crítica, a autora traça um panorama sobre as imagens e a cultura material do chamado Atlântico Negro, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Chase After The Wind

    by Ola Adedipe ...
    Spoken words are powerful forces.Read how Pa Olowolagba's children has been battling with the curse their father placed on them. Not justifying what they did to the old man.Enjoy ... Read more

    $2.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Dance of Assassins

    Performing Early Colonial Hegemony in the Congo

    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

    $9.99 USD

  • A la sombra de Occidente

    Identidad y colonialismo en el Mediterráneo

    Series Book 42 - Arte Contemporáneo
    "Cómo se desmonta un discurso cultural construido a lo largo de siglos, a través de unas prácticas artísticas que ponen de manifiesto la complejidad y los problemas del ámbito mediterráneo Históricamente el Mediterráneo ha sido un espacio de entendimiento y confrontación donde Occidente y Oriente han participado en proyectos comunes y se han enfrentado política y militarmente. Sin embargo, desde ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Sala de Aula não cabe no mundo

    Compreendendo a Nagologia Educacional e suas metodologias singulares

    Márcio de Jagun traz as mesmas reflexões a respeito do sistemafilosófico iorubá. A terra não pode ser apartada do ser humano. E esse fundamento vital é alimento para a nagologia educacional nomeada pelo autor. Em suas palavras: “É fundamento da estrutura exúdica, dacultura ioruba, construída a partir da oralidade – a potência da comunicação; da naturalidade – a relação intrínseca com a ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Shovel,A Gun;And A Name

    by Xolani Shezzi ...
    As is often the case in South Africa,a beautiful flower grows out of hard,dry ground.This volume,which arises out of the rough and dusty parts of KZN,has petals,colour,and sheen that will remain with you after reading it.In this debut poetry collection,Shezzi deals with personal and public concerns.He harnesses free verse and unusual images,born out of his chequered and testing experiences,to ... Read more

    $12.85 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A temática da cultura africana e afro-brasileira na literatura para crianças e jovens

    by Eliane Debus ...
    Este livro reúne a produção literária de quatro escritores brasileiros: Joel Rufino dos Santos, Rogério Andrade Barbosa, Júlio Emílio Braz e Georgina Martins; escritores que tematizam cultura africanas/ou afro-brasileira em suas narrativas. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Adinkra – Sabedoria em símbolos africanos

    Adinkra – Sabedoria em símbolos africanos reúne os ideogramas da escrita da civilização asante, cujo povo habita o território que hoje chamamos de Gana. Em um universo filosófico e estético baseado no corpo humano, figuras de animais, plantas, astros e outros objetos, os desenhos incorporam, preservam e transmitem aspectos da história, filosofia, valores e normas socioculturais dessa rica cultura ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Affective Images

    Post-apartheid Documentary Perspectives

    Series series SUNY Press Open Access
    Affective Images examines both canonical and lesser-known photographs and films that address the struggle against apartheid and the new struggles that came into being in post-apartheid times. Marietta Kesting argues for a way of embodied seeing and complements this with feminist and queer film studies, history of photography, media theory, and cultural studies. Featuring in-depth discussions of ... Read more

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  • Africa For Kids: People, Places and Cultures - Children Explore The World Books

    Africa is a big but very magical place. It is home to some of the world’s most interesting people and animals too. This educational book will take you to Africa. It will let you meet the people, taste the food and enjoy the culture too. It’s an imaginary adventure that you will never forget so grab a copy now! ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Africa's Bugged!

    by Ray Harris ...
    An entertaining account of the experiences of Author Ray's personal experiences with the insects of his home country, South Africa, together with incredibly detailed stippled drawings in black ink (and some using watercolours) of these amazing creatures.It is an unusual book in many ways, and a must have for the discerning reader and art lover!Africa Bugged is a sort of 'sequel' to Ray's book ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • African Abstract Art

    These Book has beautiful and flowing africanabstract art hidden in the most mystic,colourful traditional dances . ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • African Art and Agency in the Workshop

    “Compelling case studies demonstrate how African workshops have long mediated collective expression and individual imagination.” —Allen F. Roberts, University of California, Los AngelesThe role of the workshop in the creation of African art is the subject of this revelatory book. In the group setting of the workshop, innovation and imitation collide, artists share ideas and techniques, and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • African Art and the Colonial Encounter

    Inventing a Global Commodity

    Series series African Expressive Cultures
    Focusing on the theme of warriorhood, Sidney Littlefield Kasfir weaves a complex history of how colonial influence forever changed artistic practice, objects, and their meaning. Looking at two widely diverse cultures, the Idoma in Nigeria and the Samburu in Kenya, Kasfir makes a bold statement about the links between colonialism, the Europeans' image of Africans, Africans' changing self ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • African Art as Philosophy

    Senghor, Bergson, and the Idea of Negritude

    Translated by Chike Jeffers ...
    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 the Republic of Senegal. In African Art as Philosophy, Souleymane Bachir Diagne uses a unique approach to ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • African Art Now

    by Osei Bonsu ...
    Over the past two decades contemporary African art has taken its rightful place on the world stage. Today, African artists work outside the confines of limiting categories and outdated perceptions; they produce art that is as much a reflection of Africa's tumultuous past as it is a vision of its boundless future.African Art Now is an expansive overview featuring some of the most interesting and ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • African Art Now

    50 Pioneers Defining African Art for the Twenty-First Century

    by Osei Bonsu ...
    This deluxe hardcover survey, featuring profiles of 50 artists on the rise, is the definitive guide to contemporary African art.With African artists attracting sizable audience numbers to museums, setting sky-high auction records, and appearing in mainstream press, it has become impossible to overlook the cultural significance of contemporary African art today. Author and curator Osei Bonsu's ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • African Art Reframed

    Reflections and Dialogues on Museum Culture

    Once seen as a collection of artifacts and ritual objects, African art now commands respect from museums and collectors. Bennetta Jules-Rosette and J.R. Osborn explore the reframing of African art through case studies of museums and galleries in the United States, Europe, and Africa.The authors take a three-pronged approach. Part One ranges from curiosity cabinets to virtual websites to offer a ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • African Art, Interviews, Narratives

    Bodies of Knowledge at Work

    Edited by Joanna Grabski, Carol Magee ...
    Series series African Expressive Cultures
    Joanna Grabski and Carol Magee bring together a compelling collection that shows how interviews can be used to generate new meaning and how connecting with artists and their work can transform artistic production into innovative critical insights and knowledge. The contributors to this volume include artists, museum curators, art historians, and anthropologists, who address artistic production in ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • African Artists under Mission Patronage

    Focus on Tanzania

    The development, promotion, and status of African art and African artists in twentieth-century Africa is linked to several stakeholders and agencies, including Western Christian missions. Fadhili Safieli Mshana, in African Artists under Mission Patronage, surveys how mission patronage of African artists influenced twentieth-century African art, presenting specific case studies of Oye-Ekiti ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • African Cinema: Manifesto and Practice for Cultural Decolonization

    Volume 2: FESPACO—Formation, Evolution, Challenges

    Series series Studies in the Cinema of the Black Diaspora
    Challenging established views and assumptions about traditions and practices of filmmaking in the African diaspora, this three-volume set offers readers a researched critique on black film.Volume Two of this landmark series on African cinema is devoted to the decolonizing mediation of the Pan African Film & Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO), the most important, inclusive, and ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • African Cinema: Manifesto and Practice for Cultural Decolonization

    Volume 1: Colonial Antecedents, Constituents, Theory, and Articulations

    Series series Studies in the Cinema of the Black Diaspora
    Challenging established views and assumptions about traditions and practices of filmmaking in the African diaspora, this three-volume set offers readers a researched critique on black film.Volume One of this landmark series on African cinema draws together foundational scholarship on its history and evolution. Beginning with the ideological project of colonial film to legitimize the economic ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

  • African Cinema: Manifesto and Practice for Cultural Decolonization

    Volume 3: The Documentary Record—Declarations, Resolutions, Manifestos, Speeches

    Series series Studies in the Cinema of the Black Diaspora
    Challenging established views and assumptions about traditions and practices of filmmaking in the African diaspora, this three-volume set offers readers a researched critique on black film.Volume Three of this landmark series on African cinema spans the past century and is devoted to the documentation of decoloniality in cultural policy in both Africa and the Black diaspora worldwide. A compendium ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • 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 focus exclusively and extensively on the question of humanism in African art and culture.This ... Read more

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