FOUNDED 1994

Founding Publisher
Okwui Enwezor

Editors
Okwui Enwezor
Salah Hassan

Senior ditor
Chika Okeke-Agulu

Associate Editors
Sarah Adams • Carl Hazelwood
Nancy Hynes • Derek Murray • Sunanda Sanyal

Consulting Editors
Rory Bester • Isolde Brielmaier • Coco Fusco
Michael Godby • Elizabeth Harney • Kendell Geers
Thomas Mulcaire • O. Donald Odita • Gilane Tawadros
Frank Ugiomoh

Managing Editor
Jeffery McCord

Designer
Ramez Elias

Advisory Board
Norbert Aas • Florence Alexis • Elsabet Giorgis • Sandra Klopper
Rashid Diab • Manthia Diawara • Ibrahim El Salahi • dele jegede
Kellie Jones • David Koloane • Bongi Dhlomo Mautloa
Ali Mazrui • Gerardo Mosquera • Helen Evans Ramsaran
Janet Stanley • Freida High • Obiora Udechukwu
Gavin Younge • Octavio Zaya

Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art is published biannually by Nka Publications, under the auspices of Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University a Non-Profit Institution.
Individuals subscriptions are available for $45 per year and $90 per year for Institutions. Special Issues priced at $25.
Subscribers outside the USA add $20 for air mail.
Please send submissions and inquiries to:

The Editors:
Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art
Toboggan Lodge
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853

phone: 607.255.0696
fax: 607.254.4271

E-mail: nka_journal-mailbox@cornell.edu
Website: http://www.nkajournal.org

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Copyright © 1999 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art
ISSN: 1075-7163
All opinions express herein belong to the authors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the editors. Nka endeavors to provide an atmosphere of openness in its policies and welcomes opinions that might not cohere with the stated purposes of the journal.

Nka wishes to acknowledge support for the publication of the journal through generous grants from the Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts and The Prince Claus Fund For Culture and Development: The Hague, Netherlands.

PUBLISHED IN CONJUNCTION WITH
AFRICANA STUDIES AND RESEARCH CENTER
AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY