Images

Figure 1.

Mural in front of the National Assembly, right: Bamako city. Portion of a highway mural. Photograph by Donald Hurlbert, Smithsonian Institution

Figure 2.

OMM Design Workshop and Urban Solutions. The foyer of the Constitutional Court, Johannesburg. 2001–04. A "forest" of angled piers in the entrance hall reiterates the idea, first suggested in the logo of the African tradition of dispensing justice from beneath a tree, with their shaded green and brown mosaic cladding evoking a sense of bark and foliage. The wire chandeliers by artist South African artist Walter Oltmann extend the metaphor by being fashioned to resemble leaves.

Figure 3.

Vignette from a wall mural painted c.2004 by Pape Diop and located on the Western Corniche between the artisanal "village" and the Soumbédioune fish market. "'Empire Moride' . . . may be announcing something for the future; perhaps Pape Diop perceives something we do not yet know" (Yelimane Fall, pers. comm. 2006). Dakar, 7/2004, photo by the authors.

Figure 4.

An adekyeredee procession of prestigious funerary goods presented on behalf of the wives of four bereaved sons for their mother-in-law's commemorative funeral rites. Kumasi, 2003. Photo by Suzanne Gott.

Figure 5.

Alioune Bâ Untitled ca. 1997 Courtesy of Cimaise Paris, France

Figure 6.

Jacket of Living in Bondage, the inaugural film of the Nigerian video boom. Photo by Jonathan Haynes