Title & Author:

The short century : independence and liberation movements in Africa, 1945-1994 / edited by Okwui Enwezor ; with essays by Chinua Achebe [and others].

Publication:

Munich ; New York : Prestel, ©2001.

Description:

496 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm

Notes:
Catalog of an exhibition organized by the Museum Villa Stuck, Munich and held at the Museum Feb. 15-Apr. 22, 2001 and at other venues.
Catalog of an exhibition organized by the Museum Villa Stuck, Munich and held at the Museum Villa Stuck Feb. 15-Apr. 22, 2001; at the House of World Cultures in the Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, May 18-July 22, 2001; at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Sept. 8-Dec. 30, 2001; and at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center and the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Feb. 10-May 5, 2002.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The short century : independence and liberation movements in Africa, 1945-1994 : an introduction / Okwui Enwezor -- The surreptitious speech / Valentin Y. Mudimbe -- Beyond settler and native as political identities : overcoming the political legacy of colonialism / Mahmood Mamdani -- Modern African art / Chika Okeke -- Independence and liberation movements in Africa, 1945-1994 / Marilyn Martin -- A moment of hope : cultural developments in Nigeria before the first military coup / Ulli Beier -- Colonial pretense and African resistance, or subversion subverted : commemorative textiles in sub-Saharan Africa / John Picton -- Postcoloniality, performance, and photographic portraiture / Lauri Firstenberg -- City and citizenship / Rory Bester -- The ambiguous modernisms of African cities / Gwendolyn Wright -- Architecture and nationalism in Africa, 1945-1994 / Nnamdi Elleh -- Independence, highlife, liberation wars : Lagos 1950s and 1960s / Wolfgang Bender -- Theater and the performance of the nation in Africa / John Conteh-Morgan -- The anatomy of resistance in South African theater / Maishe Maponya -- Interview with Chinua Achebe / Obiora Udechukwu -- The weapon of culture : negritude literature and the making of neocolonial Africa / Chinweizu -- The modernity of African cinema / Mark Nash -- African cinema and decolonization / Manthia Diawara -- Kwame Nkrumah ; Patrice Lumumba ; Sékou Touré ; Kwame Anthony Appiah ; Gamal Abdel Nasser ; Nelson Mandela ; Frantz Fanon ; Amilcar Cabral ; Léopold Sédar Senghor ; Julius Nyerere ; Alioune Diop ; Rajat Neogy ; Njabulo Ndebele ; Jean-Paul Sartre ; Aimé Césaire ; Ben Enwonwu ; Wole Soyinka ; Jean Rouch/Ousmane Sembène.
Dust jacket.
Library copy: selected for the Multidisciplinary Research Project on "Centring Africa: Postcolonial Perspectives on Architecture", 2019-2021, developed by the CCA with the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Summary:

Art, cloth/posters, photography, architecture, music, theater/literature, film, anthology of Africa.

ISBN:

3791325027 (hardcover)
9783791325026 (hardcover)
3791323903 (softcover)
9783791323909 (softcover)

Subject:

Arts, African 20th century Exhibitions.
Arts Political aspects Africa Exhibitions.
Arts africains 20e siècle Expositions.
Africa.
exhibitions.
writers.
arts.
Arts, African.
Arts Political aspects.
Kunst.
Neokolonialisme.
Verwestersing.
Africa History Exhibitions.
Afrique Histoire Expositions.
Africa History 20th century Exhibitions.

Form/genre:

Nonfiction.
Exhibition catalogs.
exhibition catalogs.
History.
Exhibitions (form)
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Enwezor, Okwui.
Achebe, Chinua.
Museum Villa Stuck.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 294973
Call No.: BIB 240895
Status: Available