Beyond Aesthetics: Use, Abuse, and Dissonance in African Art Traditions by Wole Soyinka

Beyond Aesthetics: Use, Abuse, and Dissonance in African Art Traditions by Wole SoyinkaAn intimate reflection on culture and tradition, creativity and power, that draws on a lifetimes commitment to aesthetic encounter The playwright, poet, essayist, novelist, and Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka is also a longtime art collector. This book of essays offers a glimpse into the motivations of the collector, as well as a highly personal look at the politics of aesthetics and collecting. Detailing moments of first encounter with objects that drew

abolitionism and feminism stand shoulder-to-shoulder in fighting a common cause: the end of the carceral state

a US airman

especially if it's Cheropa

Dark Continent

A celebration of modern life in Soweto

aphinde athwale

Queen Afua teaches us how to love and rejoice in our bodies by spiritualizing the words we speak

just off Burlington Street

its subject was also homecoming: the birds on their long journeys home

Is it the curly moustache of a fellow passenger that is the impetus for Titus' fisticuff fight with bandits on the train roof

Deeply traumatized after returning to find his village a charred ruin and his family dead

Told with heart-stopping clarity