Ideas of Africa: Portraiture and Political Imagination

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This book examines the work of 20th century and contemporary African and Diasporic portrait photographers within the context of the construction of Africa as a political idea.

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Oluremi C. Onabanjo is the Peter Schub Curator of Photography at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Brent Hayes Edwards is a professor of African American and theories of the African diaspora at Columbia University, New York.

Momtaza Mehri is a Somali-British poet and essayist.

V.Y. Mudimbe is a Congolese philosopher, author, and the Newman Ivey White Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Literature at Trinity College, Duke University, Durham.

Yasmina Price is a writer, researcher, and PhD student in the Departments of African American Studies and Film & Media Studies at Yale University, New Haven.