Africa

A book / DVD documenting a collaborative project by Cameroonian artist Barthelemy Toguo and Senegalese Soly Cissé in Dakar.

This artist's book gathers a collection of notes, excerpts, documentation, artworks and interviews that documents Bugge's reading experience of Conrad's Heart of Darkness as well as her own artistic practice.

Artist's book documenting a project developed by Tere Recarens with the inhabitants of Bamako during a series of visits to Mali.

Limited edition of the artist's book by William Kentridge (ink and brush drawings and collages on books pages), with an original lithograph.

Audio project documenting the artist's travels in West Africa, pursuing cultural differences, the place of music, and the languages used to get at sound. Includes texts and audio CD.

Camel Zekri (electroacoustic guitar), Thierry Madiot (bass trombone and trumpets), Daunik Lazro (baritone saxophone) and Dominique Répécaud (electric guitar) reach a rare degree of balance between softness and roughness, between lightning and harmony.

Positions in contemporary African art.

An essay on Paul Tisseyre Ananké, the military officer in saharian French colonies and writer, which proposes a linguistic and biographic approach, accompanying the reedition of Ananké's book, denouncing the horrors of the French colonisation in Africa.

Some 45 narratives by children presented in the form of a monologue. Edited from numerous interviews and conversations recorded on playgrounds in South Africa, Peter Friedl creates a hybrid genre that is both fictionalised speech and serious counter-voice.

36 studies from 1998 to 2002.

The meeting, on the Niger River, between contemporary improvised music and African musical traditions.

The first artist monograph featuring the work of Swiss-Guinean artist Namsa Leuba.

An augmented reissue of the guide to the Tiskiwin museum in Marrakech, created by collector and anthropologist Bert Flint following his various travels through Transsaharian Africa.

The misappropriated notion of care and the paths for its rehabilitation.

Seven musicians and producers from East Africa and Europe experiment on new sounds together, inspired by a large variety of artistic environments and soundscapes.

Catalogue conceived for the 12th Edition of the Bamako Encounters, the principal event dedicated to contemporary photography and new imagery in Africa.

A long-term photographic study on the sociopolitical evolution of the Sahelo-Saharan region since 2008.

This publication presents a comic strip made by a 20-year old Nathalie Du Pasquier in remembrance of a six months journey in Gabon. Inspired by a clipping from a Gabonese daily, the cartoon tells the colorful story of a clumsy Don Giovanni. This edition features an introductory text by the artist, the translated strip, and a facsimile of the comic book in original French version.

This publication emerges from Uriel Orlow's Theatrum Botanicum (2015–18), a multi-faceted project encompassing film, sound, photography, and installation, which looks to the botanical world as a stage for politics, in South Africa and Europe. It brings together documents on the project, and a series of commissioned essays.

Borrowing its title from an unfinished documentary film on post-independence Guinea-Bissau, this reader stems from a conference which brought together artists, writers and researchers to address issues related to the people's struggle for independence from Portuguese colonialism and subsequent nation building. The contributors also engage in a reflection on the experimental use of archives in their research.

Monographic catalogue structured around installations by Vincent Meessen which examine the influence of the Situationist International in Sub-Saharan Africa, notably through figures such as Lungela Diangani eand Omar Blondin Diop. This richly illustrated book documents both the IS's relationship with the African continent and the artist's discursive, collaborative and para-curatorial activity of the past four years.

With exceptional contributions of artists, academics and musicians, Benga, A Kenyan Kaleidoscope investigates the future of East African music and avant gardes in the limelight of a digitalization of artistic practises.

This catalogue is part of a project investigating the decentralization of the hegemonic and indisputable model of western artistic modernity in the current geo-political scenario. It attempts to reflect on the construction that the West has made of Africa through works from major collections on Italian colonial history, as well as from Fondation Cartier in Paris. It also includes texts from key postcolonial figures W. E. B. Du Bois, Édouard Glissant, and Léopold Sédar Senghor.

First monograph documenting a three-year research on the mineral mica that became the ground for multidisciplinary outcomes, including poems, intricate drawings, modular sculptures that form systems of display, and performances.

A twenty-year survey of works by Julie Mehretu, considered as one of the foremost painters of her generation.

A vibrant tribute to Kenya's musical signature genre Benga.

Anthology of urban and tribal music from the late Ethiopian Empire, first issued in 1971. Presented as two volumes—vol. 1, Mindanoo Mistiru (“What is the Unknown?”), and vol. 2, Gold from Wax (referring to the two layers of meaning in Amharic poetry)—these recordings covers over 70 languages and 200 dialects. Recorded by Ragnar Johnson and Ralph Harrisson.

Anthology of urban and tribal music from the late Ethiopian Empire, first issued in 1971. Presented as two volumes—vol. 1, Mindanoo Mistiru (“What is the Unknown?”), and vol. 2, Gold from Wax (referring to the two layers of meaning in Amharic poetry)—these recordings covers over 70 languages and 200 dialects. Recorded by Ragnar Johnson and Ralph Harrisson.

At the heart of this book is a solo exhibition of the work of M'barek Bouhchichi in Rabat, and the artist's first attempt at directly confronting the wound of growing up black in Morocco. With contributions by an anthropologist, a filmmaker, and a writer from Africa, this volume puts recent transformations of Moroccan society into perspective. Beyond studying inequality and spatial segregation, what is at stake is the possibility of transfiguring the stigma of racism through art and research.

Kaleidoscope's summer issue is a special edition entirely devoted to art produced in (or related to) the African continent today, from Egypt to South Africa via Ethiopia and Nigeria.

Editor in chief, Kendell Geers subverts the code of the magazine and appropriates BC as a subversive hacker, saturating the pages of FUCK, sexes and crucifixions.

Artist's book (ink and brush drawings and collages on books pages).

The first full length survey of the work of Kendell Geers.

New monograph of the Beninese painter.

An unprecedented dialogue between the bronze works of the American-Kenyan artist associated with the Afrofuturist movement and the treasures of the Borghese Gallery, a temple of Renaissance beauty.