The Green Snake is on the Roof
What is an African artist?
What is an African film?
What is an African narrative?
What is an African aesthetic?
There are certain ways of speaking about Africa.
Is it about the artist and what the artist makes?
Or the categories they fit into?
African artist, are you a: post-modern, ‘international’, ‘postcolonial’, ‘globalized’, ‘post-apartheid’, ‘anti-’, ‘post-’, ‘political’, ‘’struggle’, ‘feminist’, ‘third-world, ‘other’, ‘exotic’, ‘magical’, ‘identity’, ‘resistance’, ‘township art’, ‘multi-cultural’, ‘local’ artist?
How do postcolonial and postmodernist theories facilitate the creative and critical engagement of artists
working in Africa? Do they? And how do they address the specific challenges faced by the geo-political
construct that is Africa?
