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Art and Artists - Africa -

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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 12 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book The Jive Talker: Or How to Get a British Passport by Samson Kambalu
    The Jive Talker: Or How to Get a British Passport - by Samson Kambalu

    £12.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781914613180 | ISBN 10: 191461318x

    A uniquely vivid and wickedly funny memoir of growing up ambitious, creative and sometimes hungry in Malawi, by the award-winning conceptual artist. A uniquely vivid and wickedly funny memoir of growing up ambitious, creative and sometimes hungry ... more

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  • Cover image of book Contemporary African Art by Sidney Littlefield Kasfir
    Contemporary African Art - by Sidney Littlefield Kasfir

    £14.95   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780500293591 | ISBN 10: 0500293597

    Contemporary African art has grown out of the diverse histories and cultural heritage of the African continent and its diaspora. It is not characterized by any particular style, technique or theme, but by a bricolage-like attitude towards art-making, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Women Artisans of Morocco: Their Stories, Their Lives by Susan Schaefer Davis, with photographs by Joe Coca
    Women Artisans of Morocco: Their Stories, Their Lives - by Susan Schaefer Davis, with photographs by Joe Coca

    £29.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780999051719 | ISBN 10: 0999051717

    Gold Winner for the 31st Annual Independent Book Publishers Association Benjamin Franklin Award.   Morocco is a wildly diverse land, a confluence of cultures, and home to myriad ancient craft traditions still thriving today. Women spin wool and w ... more

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  • Cover image of book South Africa: The Art of a Nation by John Giblin and Christopher Spring
    South Africa: The Art of a Nation - by John Giblin and Christopher Spring

    £25.00   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780500292839 | ISBN 10: 0500292833

    South African archaeology preserves some of the earliest evidence of artistic thought and production anywhere in the world. Today, South Africa has an established and vibrant contemporary art scene that is often in dialogue with the deep and recent p ... more

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  • Cover image of book In Black and White: Prints and Posters from Africa and the Diaspora by Gill Saunders, and Zoe Whitley
    In Black and White: Prints and Posters from Africa and the Diaspora - by Gill Saunders, and Zoe Whitley

    £19.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781851777549 | ISBN 10: 1851777547

    Print has always been an art form for everyone – relatively cheap to produce and easy to distribute, and intended to be accessible to all. It links to painting, and creative autographic expression, as well as to a tradition of satire and protest, bot ... more

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  • Cover image of book African Inspirations in Embroidery by Mary Sleigh
    African Inspirations in Embroidery - by Mary Sleigh

    £14.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781906388324 | ISBN 10: 1906388326

    A leading embroiderer with a lifelong love and understanding of African culture and landscape translates the many striking images of Africa into textile art, using embroidery, dyeing and quilting. From the dusky colours of the savannah to the traditi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Africa Remix: Contemporary Art of a Continent by Johannesburg Art Gallery
    Africa Remix: Contemporary Art of a Continent - by Johannesburg Art Gallery

    £21.00   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781770093638 | ISBN 10: 177009363x

    Africa Remix: Contemporary Art of a Continent features the work of more than 85 artists from 25 countries on the African continent and the Diaspora. Considered to be the largest exhibition of contemporary African art ever seen in Europe, it includes ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Legacy of Efua Sutherland by Co-edited by Anne V. Adams & Esi Sutherland-Addy
    The Legacy of Efua Sutherland - by Co-edited by Anne V. Adams & Esi Sutherland-Addy

    £16.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780954702311 | ISBN 10: 095470231x

    This unique book published 11 years after ETS’s death will rekindle an awareness of the cultural dynamism, activism and Diasporic connections that Efua Theodora Sutherland achieved through her lifetime’s work.   Efua Sutherland, Ghana-born ed ... more

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  • Cover image of book African Odyssey: 365 Days by Anup Shah
    African Odyssey: 365 Days - by Anup Shah

    £19.95   hardback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780810993969 | ISBN 10: 0810993961

    Every year, spurred on by the dry season on the African plains in Kenya and Tanzania, close to two million wildebeests, zebras, and gazelles make the epic journey from their breeding grounds in the southern Serengeti to greener, wetter grass on the n ... more

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  • Cover image of book Angola: Journey Through Change by Sean Sutton, Heather Mills and Tim Page
    Angola: Journey Through Change - by Sean Sutton, Heather Mills and Tim Page

    £19.99   hardback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781904587439 | ISBN 10: 1904587437

    For more than forty years Angola has faced conflict. From 1961-1975, there was the struggle for independence from Portuguese rule. This was followed by a period of civil war which, in one form or another, extended until 2001, when the UNITA leader Jo ... more

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  • Cover image of book Images of Defiance: South African Resistance Posters of the 1980s by The Posterbook Collective
    Images of Defiance: South African Resistance Posters of the 1980s - by The Posterbook Collective

    £26.50   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9781919855387 | ISBN 10: 1919855386

    Images of Defiance is a visual record of grassroots mobilisation and resistance, of the struggle to shatter the silence imposed by massive state repression. This book of posters celebrates the Congress movement and the principles it has fought so lon ... more

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  • Cover image of book Reality Bites: An African Decade by Gorrel Espelund, Jesper Strudsholm and Eric Miller
    Reality Bites: An African Decade - by Gorrel Espelund, Jesper Strudsholm and Eric Miller

    £15.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9781919930220 | ISBN 10: 1919930221

    Africa is a fascinating place. It is home to millions of people who can only be described as masters of survival. Among them are remarkable individuals who have excelled in the most challenging of environments, from the deserts of Sahara to the highe ... more

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