Images and empires: visuality in colonial and postcolonial Africa

Introduction: An amazing distance: pictures and people in Africa / Paul S. Landau

"Our mosquitoes are not so big": images and modernity in Zimbabwe / Timothy Burke

The sleep of the brave: graves as sites and signs in the colonial eastern Cape / David Bunn

Tintin and the interruptions of Congolese comics / Nancy Rose Hunt

Cartooning Nigerian anticolonial nationalism / Tejumola Olaniyan

Empires of the visual: photography and colonial administration in Africa / Paul S. Landau

Portraits of modernity: fashioning selves in Dakarois popular photography / Hudita Nura Mustafa

Mami Wata and Santa Marta: Imag(in)ing selves and others in Africa and the Americas / Henry John Drewal

"Captured on film": bushmen and the claptrap of performative primitives / Robert J. Gordon

Decentering the gaze at French colonial exhibitions / Catherine Hodeir

The politics of bushman representations / Pippas Skotnes

Omada art at the crossroads of colonialisms / Paula Ben-Amos Girshick

Bad copies: the colonial aesthetic and the Manjaco-Portuguese encounter / Eric Gable

Conclusion: Signifying power in Africa / Deborah D. Kaspin.

Introduction: An amazing distance: pictures and people in Africa / Paul S. Landau

"Our mosquitoes are not so big": images and modernity in Zimbabwe / Timothy Burke

The sleep of the brave: graves as sites and signs in the colonial eastern Cape / David Bunn

Tintin and the interruptions of Congolese comics / Nancy Rose Hunt

Cartooning Nigerian anticolonial nationalism / Tejumola Olaniyan

Empires of the visual: photography and colonial administration in Africa / Paul S. Landau

Portraits of modernity: fashioning selves in Dakarois popular photography / Hudita Nura Mustafa

Mami Wata and Santa Marta: Imag(in)ing selves and others in Africa and the Americas / Henry John Drewal

"Captured on film": bushmen and the claptrap of performative primitives / Robert J. Gordon

Decentering the gaze at French colonial exhibitions / Catherine Hodeir

The politics of bushman representations / Pippas Skotnes

Omada art at the crossroads of colonialisms / Paula Ben-Amos Girshick

Bad copies: the colonial aesthetic and the Manjaco-Portuguese encounter / Eric Gable

Conclusion: Signifying power in Africa / Deborah D. Kaspin.