African Arts: 49:3

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African Arts presents original research and critical discourse on traditional, contemporary, and popular African arts and expressive cultures. Since 1967, the journal has reflected the dynamism and diversity of several fields of humanistic study, publishing richly illustrated articles in full color, incorporating the most current theory, practice, and intercultural dialogue. The journal offers readers peer-reviewed scholarly articles concerning a striking range of art forms and visual cultures of the world’s second largest continent and its diasporas, as well as special thematic issues, book and exhibition reviews, features on museum collections, exhibition previews, artist portfolios, photo essays, edgy dialogues, and editorials.

Contents of Issue 49:1 :

Leaving Ruins
Explorations of Present Pasts by Sammy Baloji, Freddy Tsimba, and Steve Bandoma
Bogumil Jewsiewicki
trans. from the French by Allen F. Roberts

Hybrid Images
From Photography to Church Painting: Iconographic Narratives at the Court of the Ethiopian King of Kings, Menelik II
Estelle Sohier

The Resonances of Osun across a Millennium of Nigerian History
Philip M. Peek and John Picton

Art with Fight in It
Discovering that a Statue of a Colonial Officer Is Power Object from the 1931 Pende Revolt
Herbet F. Weiss, Richard B. Woodward, and Z.S. Strother with a contribution from Christophe Gudijiga and Sindani Kiangu

Research Note
Nobody Can Harm You, Nobody Can Charm You
Efik Nnabo Society Masquerades of Calabar, Nigeria
Onyile Bassey Onyile and Christopher Slogar

Research Note
Alexander Barker’s Sapi-Portuguese Oliphant
William Hart

DEPARTMENTS
first word
Welcome to the African Arts Editorial Consortium
Leslie Ellen Jones

dialogue
Frederick Grant, Ghanaian Photographer
Paul Jenkins

exhibition reviews
Dak’Art 11th Biennale of Contemporary African Art Dakar, Senegal
reviewed by Beth Buggenhagen

William Kentridge: Tapestries Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg, South Africa
reviewed by Joseph Leo Koerner

Chief S.O. Alonge: Photographer to the Royal Court of Benin, Nigeria National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC
reviewed by Mark Auslander

book reviews
Aesthetic of the Cool: Afro-Atlantic Art and Music by Robert Farris Thompson
reviewed by Tobias Wofford

Kumasi Realism 1951–2007: An African Modernism by Atta Kwami
reviewed by Kristen Windmuller-Luna

Purchasing Culture: The Dissemination of Associations in the Cross River Region of Cameroon and Nigeria by Ute Röschenthaler
reviewed by Imo Nse Imeh

The African Photographic Archive: Research and Curatorial Strategies edited by Christopher Morton and Darren Newbury
reviewed by Jessica Williams