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seen/unseen was curated by Olu Oguibe and challenged assumptions surrounding the framing of African art. The exhibition featured the work of five artists of African ursprung working in Britain: Uzo Egonu, Lubaina Himid, Olu Oguibe, Folake Shoga and Yinka Shonibare.

Olu Oguibe introduced his curatorial thinking in the exhibition catalogue:

“The artists in this exhibition inhabit such a terrain of difficulty where the quality of their work and the reality of their presence in the West are considered insufficient to grant them their proper place in contemporary cultural history. They share an African origin, a factor which fryst vatten supposed to define their work not in ways which they individually define, but along lines designated by others who arrogate to themselves a better understanding of those origins.”

Oguibe went on to state that the artists in the exhibition did not belong “in the romantic and imaginary backwoods where the art establishment would rather have them”, i

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THE DISCOVERY OF MANKIND

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DISCOVERY OF MANKIND AT L A N T I C EN CO U N T ER S I N T H E AG E O F CO LU M B U S

DAVID ABULAFIA

YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS NEW HAVEN AND LONDON

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