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N’Goné Fall | Providing a space of freedom

Interview with curator and art critic N’Goné Fall on the situation of women artists from Africa … The Soapbox: In your article for Global Feminisms from 2007 you wrote about the role of women still being restricted after most African states achieved independence in the 1960’s. How did women perceive this phase? Have there been […]

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Amanda Tumusiime | Art and gender

In her dissertational thesis Art and gender. Imag[in]ing the new woman in contemporary Ugandan art Amanda Tumusiime has investigated the tendency in Ugandan art to define and construct men and women in such a way as to match them with patriarchal confines. In the complex Ugandan society the character of women is described on the […]

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