Tag:The Art of Mali Olatunji: Painterly Photography from Antigua and Barbuda

Preface and Bio

Mali Olatunji & Paget Henry

Photography
The Art of Mali Olatunji: Painterly Photography from Antigua and Barbuda Excerpted from the Preface by Mali Olatunji & Paget Henry, Professor of Sociology & Africana Studies, Brown University The Art of Mali Olatunji is the story of an original…

The Art of Mali Olatunji: Painterly Photography from Antigua and Barbuda

Mali Olatunji and Paget Henry (Hansib Publications Limited, Hartford, Hertfordshire, 2014)

Art
Reviewed by Teodros Kiros This remarkable book, which elegantly blends commentaries and interpretations of “painterly photographs”, as the authors dub their work, is a feast for the imagination and a fountain of aesthetic thought. The photographs are made and not…

Paget Henry and African Ontology

Teodros Kiros

Philosophy
Ontology is the study of Being, existence and becoming, and Africans have long held their commitment to Ontology far longer than their Western counter parts. African Ontology as part of African philosophy has continued to organize African life since it…