Images and Empires: Visuality in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa

Figurative images have long played a critical, if largely unexamined, role in Africa—mediating relationships between the colonizer and the colonized, the state and the individual, and the global and the local. This pivotal volume considers the meaning and power of images in African history and culture. Paul S. Landau and Deborah Kaspin have assembled a wide—ranging collection of essays dealing with specific visual forms, including monuments, cinema, cartoons, domestic and professional photo...