Ideas of Africa

This book examines the work of 20th century and contemporary African and Diasporic portrait photographers within the context of the construction of Africa as a political idea.

Featuring more than a hundred photographs by renowned artists of the time, such as Felicia Abban, Seydou Keita, Malick Sidibé and Jean Depara, and by contemporary artists of African descent, such as Samuel Fosso, John Edmonds and Njideka Akunyili, this important publication explores modes of Pan-African possibility in powerful ima