A World in Common: Contemporary African Photography curated by Osei Bonsu Unavailable

In 2004, Africa Remix: Contemporary Art of a Continent opened at Museum Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf and then went on a three-year tour, travelling to London, Paris, Tokyo, Stockholm, and finally Johannesburg. Curated at large by Simon Njami, the exhibition showcased the work of more than eighty artists from twenty-three countries created in the previous ten years.¹Africa Remix was staged off the back of a decade that had witnessed the globalization of the artworld and the emergence of the category of “contemporary African art.”² Several landmark exhibitions were organized in this decade, such as Susan Vogel's Africa Explores (1991) and Okwui Enwezor and Octavio Zaya's In/Sight: African Photographers 1950 to Present (1996), to prove that indeed the continent was a site of modern and contemporary art production. If these earlier exhibitions were staged at a moment in time when modern and contemporary African art was being introduced to...