Stories Collection

  1. Oh, have you heard, and it was not long ago, how they killed the sweetest singer of c...
  2. With flashlight, knife and .45, bravado deserted skirmishes ago, I drop into what cou...
  3. In a cinema accustomed to equating gritty with real, oppression with existence, and a...
  4. I spent a recent Saturday getting my hair done. The whole day. For me, the monthly ha...
  5. Cast Karen Jennings. Black coed at predominately white college. Full of racial prid...
  6. It is through eyes shaped both by expectations and disappointments that I choose to s...
  7. where does the slave woman's face find reflection ... the mirrors of broken-winged bi...
  8. Night's late Night's dark Even the dogs Done stopped their bark Most everyone sane Do...
  9. My father was in the backyard working with the bricks and concrete blocks and weather...
  10. I'm about how words work up a gumbo of culture stamped and certified African delivere...
  11. The purpose of this essay is to support the premise that an idea is born, nurtured, a...
  12. I've seen her everywhere. Wearing her hats, walking and talking fast, taking care of ...
  13. Cast Bird, the Musician. A mute personification of Charlie "Yardbird" Parker. The o...
  14. On Daufuskie, the invaders relish the Indian history - trading lives like coon hides ...
  15. Angular in vision Feminine in aura Masculine in concept Fundamental in landscape A ...
  16. Why I totes on my head Why you wanna know Why I totes on my head It's sensible for sh...
  17. "The Mississippi rolls because there are skeletons rocking in cypress knee chairs und...
  18. I after 45 years of writing letters & calling Estelle sent word to find a contracto...
  19. I done Converted God To a father and a friend So He could see The trouble "we" is in ...
  20. The New Orleans Recreation Department used to provide separate and unequal playground...
  21. My first knowledge of the great Mississippi came as a child when my father packed us ...
  22. Cast Amina. African American woman. Late 30s, early 40s. A single head of household...
  23. My mother's mother died at forty-six my mother at forty-nine mid-life crisis for me b...
  24. The park, Four o'clock, We'll settle it then, Were the words that lashingly leaped fr...
  25. The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), at the Maine College of Art (MECA) near the ...
  26. An earlier exhibition, which I missed, again curated by Mimi Wolford, "The Color...
  27. Out of this experience she codirected and coproduced, with the South African Vuyile C...
  28. Herskovits, Melville J. 1941. The Myth of the Negro Past. New York: Harper and Brothe...
  29. Frans M. Olbrechts: 1899-1958 In Search of Art in Africa Edited by Constantine Petrid...
  30. Playful Performers April 9-December 12, 2004 Smithsonian/National Museum of African A...
  31. Black President The Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti New Museum of Contemporary ...
  32. Simon Ottenberg. seeing with Music The Lives of Three Blind African Musicians. Seattl...
  33. University of Iowa Museum of Art Iowa City, Iowa A curator reinstalling a museum's ...
  34. COPYRIGHT 2006 The Regents of the University of California COPYRIGHT 2006 Gale Group...
  35. More than simply allowing mail to get from one point to another, postage stamps can c...
  36. UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History Los Angeles, California May 19-November 17, 20...
  37. Edited by Martha G. Anderson and Philip M. Peek UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural Hist...
  38. LITERATURE AND THE ARTS Ann Hecht. The Art of the Loom: Weaving, Spinning and Dyeing ...
  39. AS YOU READ THIS, YOU HAVE A SINGULAR ADVANTAGE OVER THE PERSON WHO WROTE IT: YOU ALR...
  40. Family therapy educators frequently encourage self-reflection in their students and c...
  41. Tiefer, L. (1995). Sex is not a natural act and other essays. Boulder, CO: Westview, ...
  42. University's exhibit on kente involves local students and helps museums fulfill their...
  43. There has been in recent scholarship the now-fashionable tendency to theorize non-Eur...
  44. Anonymous. 1962. "African Writers Meet." West African Review 33 (417):17-19...
  45. Ali Mazrui has noted the immense power of the written word in the colonial history of...
  46. Cecil Todd, on the other hand, refused to acknowledge that the legacy of Margaret Tro...
  47. by Kizito Maria Kasule Makerere University Sunanda Sanyal's comprehensive examina...
  48. Writing a paper such as this is not an easy task. Sanyal has managed to give a balanc...
  49. McPherson, Margaret. 1964. They Built for the Future: A Chronicle of Makerere Univers...
  50. (4.) As early as 1902, for instance, a government memo had pondered the possible cons...
  51. (12.) Ignatius Sserulyo, personal interview, Kampala, September 18, 1997; Kiure Franc...
  52. COPYRIGHT 2006 The Regents of the University of California COPYRIGHT 2006 Gale Group...
  53. The complexity of the history of modern art in Africa is no big news. Not only was in...
  54. Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology Harvard University Cambridge, Massachuset...
  55. Other unusual artworks in the Ancestral-Personal Sphere were designed to care for inf...
  56. Therefore, this section blended easily into the handsome presentation of the final Gl...
  57. The catalogue is available for $20.00 plus shipping from artsfoundation@hotmail.com, ...
  58. Blier, S. Preston. 1995. African Vodun: Art, Psychology and Power. Chicago: Chicago U...
  59. The Mapula Embroidery Project is in the Winterveld, an area that is about 45 km (28 m...
  60. In Modernity at Large, Arjun Appadurai posits media as one of the major diacritics wh...
  61. Lusaka National Museum January 27 March 17, 2005 A government cultural officer of i...
  62. Michael D. Harris. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. 296 pp., ...
  63. Professor Till Forster (University of Basel): Johanna Agthe had been a distant coll...
  64. "Never again became wherever again." President Paul Kagame of Rwanda (Dai...
  65. African art enthusiasts generally associate the Vienna Museum fur Volkerkunde with it...
  66. Yinka Shonibare Double Dutch Edited by Jaap Guldemond and Gabriele Mackert, with Ba...
  67. In the volatile circumstances in which the Zulu-speaking people of southern Africa ha...
  68. With the exception of a few objects from the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervu...
  69. As you enter the Ghanaian fishing port of Elmina, between the pounding surf and the m...
  70. African Art, African Voices Long Steps Never Broke a Back Philadelphia Museum of Art ...
  71. Surfaces: Color, Substances, and Ritual Applications in African Sculpture The African...
  72. Creating Their Own Image A History of African-American Women Artists Aronson Gallerie...
  73. A genuine advocate of Africa, Merrick Posnansky continues to find new ways to promote...
  74. Information subject to change * western states (by closing date) Basquiat Jul...
  75. Moving in Time Images of Life in a Democratic South Africa George Hallett, editor; ...
  76. "En Afrique, chaque vieillard qui meurt est un bibliotheque qui brule." In ...
  77. Island Thresholds Contemporary Art from the Caribbean The Peabody Essex Museum, Salem...
  78. Karmen Gei Written and directed by Joseph Gai Ramaka, produced by Richard Sadler 82 m...
  79. Personal Affects Power and Poetics in Contemporary South African Art by David Brodi...
  80. The Indigenous and the Foreign in Christian Ethiopian Art On Portuguese-Ethiopian Con...
  81. During the week of October 18, 2004, Pamela Allara, Kyle Kauffman, and I organized a ...
  82. Information subject to change * western states (by closing date) Material Differe...
  83. The Art of Ife A Descriptive Catalogue and Database by Frank Willett with a chapter...
  84. Your recent issue of African Arts (37, 2) contains an article and a letter to which I...
  85. Coexistence: Contemporary Cultural Production in South Africa by Pamela Allara, Maril...
  86. The exhibition "Beads of Life: Eastern and Southern African Adornments" pre...
  87. In my dairy of January 1990 I noted down: "I met with Lema Gwete, the chief dire...
  88. Bamana: The Art of Existence in Mali edited by Jean-Paul Colleyn New York: Museum for...
  89. There are circumstances in which looking itself is a source of pleasure, just as, in ...
  90. Der Mond als Schuh: Zeichnungen der San The Moon as Shoe: Drawings of the San edite...
  91. Under the cloudy skies that marked the declining days of the rainy season, the 1993 E...
  92. Masken: Gesichter aus anderen Welten Museum Rietberg, Zurich December 7, 2003-March...
  93. Information subject to change * western states (by closing date) Asking for Eye...
  94. Griots at War Conflict, Conciliation, and Caste in Mande Barbara G. Hoffman Blo...
  95. This article draws together several years of fieldwork-based research into the urban ...
  96. African Theater Women Jane Plastow, ed. James Currey, Oxford; Indiana University Pres...
  97. I caught up with Marilyn Houlberg last November in Port-au-Prince. We had co-curated ...
  98. In and Out of Focus Images from Central Africa, 1885-1960 Christraud Geary, with ...
  99. In 1990, I first traveled to Lower Congo (zone of Kimvula) to participate in the dail...
  100. In traditional highland Ethiopia, handicraft workers were not considered part of main...
  101. My Ethiopia Recent Paintings by Wosene Worke Kosrof Christa Clarke Neuberg Muse...
  102. Uniformed traditional "holy dance" makes the Nazareth Baptists most conspic...
  103. A Project of the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, in collaboration with the In...
  104. Although mechanically reproduced, electronically illuminated signs commonly proclaim ...
  105. Information subject to change * western states (by closing date) Asking for Eye...
  106. This short paper examines the life and work of a single Tanzanian folk artist, Fundi ...
  107. Fela: From West Africa to West Broadway Edited by Trevor Schoonmaker Palgrave Mac...
  108. Rorke's Drift Empowering Prints Philippa Hobbs and Elizabeth Rankin Double Storey...
  109. Stamp imagery is a fruitful object of study on numerous grounds. Stamps are the work ...
  110. The Ordeal of the African Writer by Charles R. Larson Zed Books Ltd., distributed by ...
  111. During the Exposition Coloniale Internationale of Paris in 1931, France issued six co...
  112. Joseph-Aurelien Cornet died at the residence of the Christian Brothers in Ciney, Belg...
  113. A few blocks from Libreville's Musee national des Arts et Traditions stands the Centr...
  114. I first met Jean Rouch in the summer of 1976 in Niamey, the capital of the Republic o...
  115. The images on postage stamps are not chosen at random; in fact, since the issuing of ...
  116. Veil Veiling, Representation, and Contemporary Art Edited by David A. Bailey and Gila...
  117. The Sala Mpasu are a people who have repeatedly reinvented themselves during the twen...
  118. When Suzanne Blier first asked me to address the Arts Council of African Studies Asso...
  119. When I first met Amy Futa in the African Arts office on the shabby tenth floor of UCL...
  120. Cleveland Museum of Art In 2003 the Cleveland Museum of Art reopened its African ar...
  121. Kabulonga, Lusaka, Zambia February, 2004 Just one month before Friday Tembo--one of...
  122. The recent comments on Ugandan artist Jak Katarikawe by the notable East Africanist s...
  123. The craft industry has seemed to promise much to a transforming South Africa. A spraw...
  124. Fang: An Epic Journey Written and directed by Susan Vogel. Prince Street Pictures, In...
  125. Changes in heritage legislation in South Africa, as elsewhere, speak to the present a...
  126. We in South Africa are still too close to the apartheid era to be able to comment aut...
  127. The starting point of the exhibition After Apartheid: 10 South African Documentary Ph...
  128. An American observer might be somewhat bemused by the number of events (not excluding...
  129. Two exhibitions organized to celebrate South Africa's ten years of democracy raise cr...
  130. Since the late 1990s, collectors of southern African art have become increasingly cau...
  131. Thamsanga (Thami) Mnyele (1948-1985) devoted his short life as an artist to two polit...
  132. Musulmanes, Musulmans au Caire, a Teheran, Istanbul, Paris, Dakar Parc de la Villet...
  133. Bongi Dhlomo is an artist, art educator and art administrator. Trained at Rorke's Dri...
  134. Information subject to change * western states (by closing date) Botanica Los A...
  135. South Africa is a player on the world stage and on sports fields. Where once it had t...
  136. Even today, Paul Stopforth is best known in South Africa for his graphic anti-aparthe...
  137. Dan Ge Performance Masks and Music in Contemporary Cote d'lvoire Daniel B. Reed Bloom...
  138. Engaging Modernities Transformations of the Commonplace Anitra Nettleton, Julia C...
  139. The story of South Africa's liberation is most often told in the grand narrative of t...
  140. Notes inadvertantly omitted from Elsbeth Court's dialogue in the Summer 2004 issue. ...
  141. Family Stories of South Africa Nine Family Histories National Cultural History Museum...
  142. Queering Creole Spiritual Traditions Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Particip...
  143. Congo in Cartoons 102 Paintings by Tshibumba Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen (KIT...
  144. Moroccan Life Niloo Imami Paydar and Ivo Grammet, general editors. Statement by His M...
  145. "Getting Pictures Right: Context and Interpretation" was the title of a sym...
  146. Forms of Wonderment The History and Collections of the Afrika Museum, Berg en Dal Edi...
  147. Last November 27 the eminent German anthropologist Hans Himmelheber peacefully passed...
  148. This special issue of African Arts features highlights of a symposium held at the Met...
  149. The extraordinary objects in the exhibition "Genesis" reflect the concern o...
  150. My invitation to the symposium at the Metropolitan Museum of Art was occasioned by my...
  151. This exhibition of eighty seats from sub-Saharan Africa, on loan from the Barbier-Mue...
  152. In and Out of Focus Images from Central Africa, 1885-1960 National Museum of African ...
  153. It has been pointed out many times that every human group in the world today has its ...
  154. A famous social scientist once said, "In science as in love, an overemphasis on ...
  155. Historians using oral traditions must continually grapple with traditions of origin, ...
  156. Creation myths reflect the unique contexts of their inception, revelation, and later ...
  157. I would like to comment on two photographs that appeared in Christraud Geary's articl...
  158. On my first visit to the Dogon, in 1990, when I arrived at Sangha, Mali, as a lecture...
  159. The record-breaking heat became the primary topic of conversation this past summer at...
  160. A performer wearing a large mask of a woman's face looked out flirtatiously from bene...
  161. New York art collectors Fred and Rita Richman, who have longstanding business ties to...
  162. The Museum for African Art New York, New York April 10 October 6, 2003 Entering the...
  163. Information subject to change * western states (by closing date) Mexican Trees ...
  164. Any serious collecting ... must come down to an aesthetic decision, which is what con...
  165. The island republic of Madagascar, lying some 400 kilometers off the coast of east Af...
  166. At his memorial service held at the National Museum of African Art (NMAfA) in October...
  167. Rarely in a lifetime do we have the privilege and good fortune to know and to work wi...
  168. Among the essays honoring the life and achievements of Roy Sieber, this may be one of...
  169. National Museum of African Art Smithsonian Institution Washington, D.C. April 14-Sept...
  170. Art First New York and Hall & Knight New York City December 4, 2002-January 20, 2003 ...
  171. It is only via the act of knowledge that the object becomes what it truly "is." Sla...