The World · 03

Africa & The African Diaspora

Not one history and certainly not one style: eight artists connect material, portraiture, colonial inheritance, migration and contemporary life across a global diaspora.

01Amoako BoafoThe figure becomes touch.02El AnatsuiMetal behaves like cloth; waste behaves like history.03Ibrahim El-SalahiModernism grows from memory, calligraphy and spiritual form.04Julie MehretuThe map becomes a record of speed, conflict and collective movement.05Lynette Yiadom-BoakyeShe paints people who never existed - and gives them lives we can almost remember.06Wangechi MutuThe body rebuilt from the images that consume it.07William KentridgeHistory advances through erasure, revision and return.08Yinka ShonibareEmpire dressed for the party.