Chika Okeke-Agulu is an artist, curator, and Associate Professor in the Department of Art & Archaeology and the Center for African American Studies at Princeton University. He is a coauthor of Contemporary African Art since 1980 and coeditor (with Okwui Enwezor and Salah M. Hassan) of Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, also published by Duke University Press.
List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction. Postcolonial Modernism 1
1. Colonialism and the Educated Africans 21
2. Indirect Rule and Colonial Modernism 39
3. The Academy and the Avant-Garde 71
4. Transacting the Modern: Ulli Beier, Black Orpheus, and the Mbari International 131
5. After Zaria 183
6. Contesting the Modern: Artists' Societies and Debates on Art 227
7. Crisis in the Postcolony 259
Notes 291
Bibliography 313
Index 327