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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.
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