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Contemporary African Art: Contested terrain and a troubling aesthetics
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The PotoPoto Aesthetics Established in 1951 By French Mathematician and amateur artist Pierre Lods
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Mode Muntu, Figures carrying water in a fish background, gouache on paper, 1973
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Mode Muntu, Slaved yoked together, gouache on paper, 1973
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Mode, Figures, gouache on cardboard, n.d Jean-Bosco Kamba, Serpent and Birds, Gouache on wood, n.d.
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Roadside Art and a new Internationalism
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Unknown artist, Barber’s Sign—(Salon) shop display, enamel paints on wood
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Open display of the portraits of Christ, and prominent Ghanaian politicians By God Art Works, kumasi Ghana, 1978
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Cheri Samba, Why have I signed a contract?, acrylic on canvas, 1990
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Cheri Samba, (Zairian) Battle Against the Mosquitoes, Acrylic on canvas, 1990
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Tshibumba, Colonial Atrocities, Enamel on board. n.d
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Kane Kwei, Mercedes-Benz shaped coffin, enamel paint on wood, 1989
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Kane Kwei, (Ghanaian) Hen-shaped coffin, wood and enamel paint, 1989
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Kane Kwei, Cocoa-pod shaped coffin, enamel paints on wood, 1970
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Sunday Jack Akpan, installation—chief, soldiers, business man, Cement and enamel paints, 1993
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Sunday Jack Akpan, Portrait of a man in uniform (Nigerian Police) Cement and acrylic paints 1989
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Sunday Jack Akpan, Heads, Cement, enamel paints c.a. 1993
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Emile Guebehi, The Adultery, installation, painted wood, 1992
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An Ndebele woman painting the façade Of her home.
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Francina Ndimande’s House, Mabhoko, South Africa, 1987
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Catholic Church painted by Francina Ndimande, Mabhoko, South Africa, 1987
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Francina Ndimande, Untitled, acrylic on canvas, 1992
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Justus Akeredolu, installation--woman cooking, farmer, wood, n.d.
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Contemporary Benin Queen Mother’s Bust presented by the Nigeria Government To President Jimmy Carter in 1997
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Fake Roped Vessel on a stand After Igbo Ukwu, bronze, n.d.
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Ballpoint pen carved in the 1980 Recycles traditional wood carving modes
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Modernism Modernity African/ Africanity/Africaness Exotic Authenticity Commodity (commodification)
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