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Title: | Some Thoughts on the Problems of the Artists in Contemporary Africa |
Author: | Coates, Ross |
Year: | 1978 |
Periodical: | Journal of African Studies (UCLA) |
Volume: | 5 |
Issue: | 3 |
Period: | Fall |
Pages: | 301-306 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Subsaharan Africa Africa |
Subjects: | writers arts Architecture and the Arts |
Abstract: | The contemporary visual arts in Africa are invariably treated as though they existed in a political vacuum. While it is not uncommon for Africanist journals to include studies of African literature in terms of a revolutionary struggle of tho continent, and when writers such as Wole Soyinka and Dennis Brutus issue a manifesto committing African literature to the struggle for national identity and to the 'fulfillement' of the aspirations of the African peoples toward a just creative and progressive society', the visual artists are silent. The purpose of this article is to suggest possible reasons for this silence and to offer a series of questions as a basis for a discussion of the role problems that tha African artist faces. Notes. |