Africa

Photographer Jean-Vincent Simonet introduces a new photobook that captures the transforming world of Kitengela Glass, an artistic community in the south of Nairobi, Kenya.

The latest chapter of Eritrea-born artist Dawit L. Petros's long-term investigation of the impact of Italian colonialism and its subsequent imprint on the visual cultures, populations and built environments of Africa, Europe and North America.

A book spanning Cosima von Bonin's work of the last decade, and a personal journey into her private world and references.

First monograph.

2024 repress of KMRU's first release for Editions Mego.

2024 repress of KMRU's first release for Editions Mego.

The notion of primitivism rethought to highlight the role of the African referent in the development of the artistic and literary avant-garde in Europe.

Ludovic Nkoth's exhibition at Fondation Le Corbusier – Maison La Roche, a masterpiece of twentieth-century modern architecture.

Publication based on an exhibition of work by Nigerian-British photographer Akinbode Akinbiyi and South African artist Abrie Fourie both based in Berlin, and curatorial collaboration between Musée de la Musique Georges Ouédraogo, Ouagadougou, and Der Projektraum Scharaun, Berlin. The curatorial emphasis turns the focus to the idea of sound in photography.

Alioune Diagne's project for the first Senegalese Pavilion at the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, 2024.

The first monographic publication dedicated to Souleymane Keïta (1947-2014), a major figure in Senegalese art.

First monograph devoted to the work of the Italian-Senegalese artist Binta Diaw.

The series of portraits of African heads of state unveiled by Kehinde Wiley at the musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac in Paris, an exploratory project around the representation of power on which the painter has been working confidentially since 2012.

The continuation and culmination of a vast project, articulated between an exhibition and a symposium, imagined by South African curator Ntshepe Tsekere Bopape (Mo Laudi), inviting 17 artists from Africa and its diaspora and a group of researchers to evoke black aesthetics and propose an alternative vision of a world without borders.

The continuation and culmination of a vast project, articulated between an exhibition and a symposium, imagined by South African curator Ntshepe Tsekere Bopape (Mo Laudi), inviting 17 artists from Africa and its diaspora and a group of researchers to evoke black aesthetics and propose an alternative vision of a world without borders.

A comprehensive insight into the images of landscape by the Ethiopian-born artist Robel Temesgen.

A complete documentation on a multimedia exhibition by Berlin-based artist Ixmucané Aguila, giving voice to voiceless descendants of victims of genocide in Namibia.

A new series of works by the Senegalese painter, in dialogue with the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen's Impressionist masters.

A volume assembling new and existing documents that revisit, mix and remix moments in the work of artist Christian Nyampeta.

The extraordinary journey of the Ivorian-Burkinabé stylist Pathé'O, icon of African fashion.

The extraordinary journey of the Ivorian-Burkinabé stylist Pathé'O, icon of African fashion (also available in English).

The first retrospective volume on the photography of the internationally acclaimed Nigerian filmmaker, photographer and music-video director Andrew Dosunmu: a sensual and kaleidoscopic celebration of the world's cultural diversity.

Paintings and photocollages by the French artist based in Senegal, Vincent Michéa, which are part of a vast kaleidoscopic iconography, African but also European and American, that reorganizes space and time.

"For those who, despite everything, have decided to live, there will always be a home." A work on the experience of exile and migration, memory and selfhood, from legendary French-Rwandan storyteller Scholastique Mukasonga.

8 years almost to the day after releasing his unique re-interpretation album of his field recordings made in the late 90's in Tanzania, Kink Gong is back with another volume of bushmen madness.

In this compelling rethinking of curatorial practice, renowned museum director, curator, and writer Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung proposes that Pidgin languages and pidginization as a mode of being and doing offer a decolonialized reinvention of communicative practices.

The catalogue of the 13th edition of the Rencontres de Bamako - African Biennale of Photography, focusing on multiplicity, difference, becoming, and heritage.

First monograph of the Kenyan artist.

Curva Cieca Oblio was born out of the collaboration between two artists whose paths have intertwined many times over the course of twenty years. The work of Muna Mussie, who investigates the languages of the visual and performing arts, for this creation on record extends and enters into a fusional dialogue with the rigorous and prismatic sound vision of Massimo Carozzi, also an explorer of the relationships between different languages.

A transnational and transhistorical investigation carried out in the heart of museum and artistic practices between France and Senegal in the 1950s to 1970s, inviting us to decentralize our views in order to consider the globalized history of art of these years in a new light.

The reprint of a document containing the script of Skip Norman's film On Africa (1970).

Monilola Olayemi Ilupeju's debut collection of writing.

An Ongoing-Offcoming Tale comprises abstractions, subversions and poetic ruminations, housed within essays that engage with the lives and practices of over 30 artists.

New monograph of the famous American-Kenyan artist, presenting her bronze and clay sculptures and her recent films.

An iconographic work on the modern architecture of Abidjan which aims to offer a photographic survey of thirty buildings representative of the chosen moment of architecture that followed independence.

A workshop for the memory of Rwanda.

A visual diary of Ibrahim Mahama's impressive work in his native Tamale in Ghana, a community-based project founded on the understanding of art as totalizing, reparatory experience: a catalyzer of energies directed for change and social progress.

Artist-photographer Georges Senga investigates into the figure of Bonaventure Salumu, so-called "pagan hunter", who between the 1940s and 60s received a Christian education from missionaries in Congo, following which he was ordained to priesthood as a Jesuit, moved to Europe, eventually returning to his native village where he became a husband and father.

Artist-photographer Georges Senga investigates into the figure of Bonaventure Salumu, so-called "pagan hunter", who between the 1940s and 60s received a Christian education from missionaries in Congo, following which he was ordained to priesthood as a Jesuit, moved to Europe, eventually returning to his native village where he became a husband and father.

An overview of Dawit L. Petros's expansive suite of works reflecting the lingering effects of colonial brutality and revealing the links between the contemporary resurgence of nationalism and a suppressed colonial past.

A political anthropology of music that is resolutely critical, reflective and accessible, based on a study of the world of Burkinabe rap.

An expanded edition of Ballen’s debut photobook—a charming homage to the spirit of boyhood around the world.

An experience of observation of contemporary African migratory approaches and new theological movements of Christianity on the continent and in particular in Morocco, through texts of researchers but also various testimonies and documents.

An essay on relational politics (the Arabic edition of Felwine Sarr's book).

First monograph devoted to the postcolonial feminist approach of the Berlin-based South African artist.

An anthropologist's view of contemporary African creation.

Contemporary art and performative practices in Africa.