Annette Schemmel provides a highly illuminating case study of the major actors, discourses and paradigm that shaped the history of visual arts in Cameroon durin
Special features of this book: follows a geographical organization across the continent; each chapter is reader friendly with clear, accessible sub-headings; re
Little has been published about African women artists to date. This is due to a general Western hegemony over the construction of histories and discourses, but
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, artists working for the royal court of Bamum, in Cameroon, created elaborate bead-covered thrones and stools, wooden
What happens when the art world encounters the law and vice versa? This book describes these collisions with a critical eye through a combination of primary sou