Nka 24 Spring/Summer 2010

From the Editor Salah M. Hassan

ARTICLES
BLACK IS, BLACK AIN'T: A HISTORIC PRELUDE Amy Mooney
BIRTH OF THE COOL  Trevor Schoonmaker
The Art of War, Or COCO FUSCO’S Occupation Jonathan Beller
SELF-PORTRAIT/SELF-VISION: THE WORK OF SAMUEL FOSSO Ingrid Hölzl

THE LADY IN THE SWAMP: ART AS POLITICAL EPHEMERA Dominique Malaquais

THE BLACK ATLANTIC: IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: Artistic Passages, Circulations, Revisions Peter Erickson
COLOR IN THE REPRESENTATION OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN TOWNSHIPS Michael Godby
TRACES AND ECHOES: Mixed Media Paintings of KALIDOU SY  Joanna Grabski
AIMÉ CÉSAIRE (1913–2008) ARCHITECT OF NÉGRITUDE Locksley Edmondson
AIMÉ CÉSAIRE: THE POET'S PASSION Édouard Glissant
LOSING CÉSAIRE Natalie Melas
NICHOLAS HLOBO in Conversation with JOOST BOSLAND Joost Bosland
ZINEB SEDIRA: SAPHIR Richard Dyer
NET FROM THE WARP Courtney J. Martin
THE FRAGILE PERSISTENCE OF MEMORY Bettina Malcomess
ADGER W. COWANS: Running Deep with Photography Dowoti Désir
LALLA ESSAYDI: An Interview Ray Waterhouse
BERNI SEARLE’S: Soliloquies on Strength and Solitude Laurie Ann Farrell
CROSS-CULTURAL PATTERNS: “Cloth is like a DNA swatch”1 Lydie Diakhaté
REVIEWS
YINKA SHONIBARE: GARDEN OF LOVE Amanda Gilvin
SAMTA BENYAHIA: LE POLYGONE ET LE DÉDALE 

Sylvie Couderc