Illustrating Post-Colonial Africa: Image Meets Texts in West and East African Literature

Speakers will discuss a student led collaborative work in organizing an exhibition (Dec 16 - February 28, Memorial Library) that foregrounds the often-neglected visual artistic labor that accompanied literary texts published in the early postcolonial period in East and West Africa. This talk will explore how African cultural productions have been credited and discredited, preserved and transformed — and how African artists continue to shape the syncretic future of cultural and content creation.