Michaela Coel

Actress

Location: UK

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Cole, Herbert M. Icons: Ideals and Power in the Artof Africa. Washington, D.C: the Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989.

This book looks at fundamental themes in African sculpture, shows a variety of iconic artworks, and describes their role in African society.

[Source: Amazon].

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Cole, Herbert M., and Douglas Fraser, eds. African Art and Leadership. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1972.

Fourteen thought-provoking essays by art historians, anthropologists, and historians analyze the complex interactions between art and leadership in sub-Saharan Africa. Amply and carefully illustrated throughout.

[Source: University of Wisconsin Press].

Cole, Robert Eugene. "The Liberian Elite as A Barrier to Economic Development". 1967. PhD Dissertation, (Northwestern University, 1967).  

This dissertation addresses the Liberian elite as a barrier to economic development.

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Coleman, Katharina P. and Tieku, Thomas K.. African Actors in International Security: Shaping Contemporary Norms. Boulder, USA: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2018. https://doi-org.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/10.1515/9781626377295

What impact have African actors had on perceptions of and responses to current international security challenges? Are there international peace and security norms with African roots? How can actors that lack the power and financial resources of Western states help to shape prevailing conceptions of appropriate behavior in international politics? Addressing these questions, the authors of African Actors in International Security identify and explore the diverse pathways by which African governments, IGOs, NGOs, and individuals can and do influence the normative structure of contemporary international relations.

Source: Book description by publisher

Coleman, Katharina P. and Tieku, Thomas K.. African Actors in International Security: Shaping Contemporary Norms. Boulder, USA: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781626377295

What impact have African actors had on perceptions of and responses to current international security challenges? Are there international peace and security norms with African roots? How can actors that lack the power and financial resources of Western states help to shape prevailing conceptions of appropriate behavior in international politics? Addressing these questions, the authors of African Actors in International Security identify and explore the diverse pathways by which African governments, IGOs, NGOs, and individuals can and do influence the normative structure of contemporary international relations.

Source: Book description from Rienner.com

Delinda Collier

Associate Professor, Art History, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

112 S. Michigan Ave. Suite  605

Chicago | 60603

dcollier@said.educ

Collier, Delinda. Media Primitivism: Technological Art in Africa. The Visual Arts of Africa and Its Diasporas. Durham, N.C: University Press, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478012313

In Media Primitivism, Delinda Collier provides a sweeping new understanding of technological media in African art, rethinking the assumptions that have conceptualized African art as unmediated, primary, and natural. Collier responds to these preoccupations by exploring African artworks that challenge these narratives. From one of the first works of electronic music, Halim El-Dabh’s Ta’abir Al-Zaar (1944), and Souleymane Cissé’s 1987 film, Yeelen, to contemporary digital art, Collier argues that African media must be understood in relation to other modes of transfer and transmutation that have significant colonial and postcolonial histories, such as extractive mining and electricity. Collier reorients modern African art within a larger constellation of philosophies of aesthetics and technology, demonstrating how pivotal artworks transcend the distinctions between the constructed and the elemental, thereby expanding ideas about mediation and about what African art can do.

[Source: Duke University Press].