Okwui Enwezor

Okwui Enwezor © Andreas Gerbert In the first issue of the magazine Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, which he founded in 1994, in New York, Okwui Enwezor opened his preface with these words: “One of the problematic aspects of visiting museums, art galleries, and other sites of cultural valuation, in Europe and in the United States, is the pervasive absence in these highly policed environments, of art by contemporary African artists. Not only are the works of these artists (many of who..