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Africa Modern
Creating the contemporary art of a continent

Item date(s): 2017

Lady Linda Wong Davies  - (foreword by)
Thomas Heatherwick  - (foreword by)
Ekow Eshun  - (introduction by)


Pages: 297pp
Size: 240mm


Publisher: KT Wong Foundation
ISBN: 978-1-5272-1257-2

Additional notes:
Published in association with Wallpaper

Ref: SA/2189

Articles

Medicine in the grave
 Ashraf Jamal (essay by)
   p16

Why Africa needs art museums
 Valerie Kabov (essay by)
   p26

Cape Town: port city
 Tom Trevor (essay by)
   p32

All is in flux: Africa's self-help cities
 Ekow Eshun (essay by)
   p79

On art and ambition
 Sisonke Msimang (essay by)
   p118

The legacy of slavery
 Ngugi wa Thiong'o (essay by)
   p128

Tomorrow is now: emerginb artists shaping a new Africa
 Helen Jennings (essay by)
   p134

Africa in the new century
 Achille Mbembe (essay by)
   p144

The story of a building
 Thomas Heatherwick (essay by)
   p39







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