Foreword
Section ፩: Thinking
1. Introduction
2. What is contemporary African art?
3. Insurgent memory and African art
Section ፪: Viewing
4. Mulatu Astatke: The making of Ethio-jazz
5. The magical universe of Zerihun Yetmgeta
6. The seemingly seamless subversion of Sime
7. Songs of the Angels
Section ፫: Knowing
8. Rethinking archiving: Modes of cultural capital in Sam
Nhlengethwa’s collection of art
9. Beyond the construction of crises: The voice of an ordinary
Zimbabwean
Section ፬: Remembering
10. Diaspora connections and discontinuities: The photography
of Chester Higgins
11. In place of a conclusion: Re-centering SPace Currencies in
Contemporary African Art
Biography
Abebe Zegeye is distinguished scholar whose work critically interrogates the meaning, value, and function of contemporary African art. His essays, compiled in Sites of Remembering, reflect a rigorous scholarly engagement rooted in an African perspective and underpinned by an Afrocentric orientation. Through his writing, Zegeye explores the vitality of African memory as a set of discursive practices essential to reclaiming and rescuing content embedded in historical archives, lived realities, cultural rituals, creative expression, and scholarly production.
