
Digital Table of Contents
What Tell Freedom Now
2019
45.2
Kimberly Quiogue Andrews, Khanyisile Mbongwa & Douglas Kearney, Guest Editors
Cover Art: See Editor’s Note and Artist’s Statement (opens in a new page)

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DIGITAL
Eye Heard That: Bonus Materials
Douglas Kearney, Julie Ezelle Patton, Duriel E. Harris, LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, and Davu Seru
Noncedo Gxekwa
Images by Noncedo Gxekwa,
with additional images appearing in “Water” by Koleka Putuma
COUNTER/NARRATIVES: AN ASAP/10 ROUNDTABLE IN CONVERSATION WITH JOHN KEENE
Introduction: Narratives & Counternarratives
Kimberly Quiogue Andrews, Guest Editor
in relation: a semi-cento with, for & about john keene (et al.)
Evie Shockley
John Keene’s Narrative Economy
Phillip Brian Harper
Seismosis/Semiosis: Shaking Up Black Meaning
Tyrone Williams
Keener Sounds
Aldon Lynn Nielsen
Refusing Access
Susan Cooke Weeber
Thoughts & Responses
John Keene
WHAT DO WE TELL FREEDOM, NOW? EMANCIPATION & ART
Introduction: What Do We Tell Freedom, Now?
Khanyisile Mbongwa, Guest Editor
THINKING ABOUT EMANCIPATION: AFRICAN INDEPENDENCE
Timeline of African Countries Receiving Independence
Tomorrow, There Will Be More of Us: 2020 Curatorial Statement
Khanyisile Mbongwa, Dr. Bernard Akoi-Jackson & Nontobeko Ntombela
QUEER, not yet here
Kopano Maroga
My feet ached for liberation
Vuyi Qubeka
BIENNALES, TRIENNALES & ART FESTIVALS IN AFRICA
Healing through Revealing: Research as an Emancipatory Praxis
Rashieda Witter
Locating the Role of African Film Festivals under Pan-African Ideologies
Silas Miami
The Second Johannesburg Biennale
Carol Becker
Kampala Art Biennale in Retrospect
Martha Kazungu
On Emancipation, Freedom & Art
Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh
The Bienniale Phenomenon in the Congolese Context
Jean Kamba
TOWARDS TOMORROW
To Imagine Is To Be: Towards the Stellenbosch Triennale
Dr. Mike Tigere Mavura
Stellenbosch Triennale Artist Announcement 2020
Water
Koleka Putuma
Stellenbosch Triennale 2020: Selected Works
SEE WHAT I’M SAYING IS: WRITING + IMAGE
Introduction: See What I’m Saying Is: Writing + Image
Douglas Kearney, Guest Editor
MAMA’S GUN COVER SECTION
Penitentiary Philosophy
Aleshea Harris
Didn’t Cha Know
Justin Phillip Reed
Her Life (The Black Girl’s) in Unedited Episodes
Anastacia-Reneé
… & On
Rosamond S. King
Cleva
Yona Harvey
Sugah Heys Back (An Interlude Disguised as Exegesis)
Rone Shavers
Booty
Danez Smith
Hesi
Cathy Thomas
A.D. 2000
Saretta Morgan
come live
Duriel E. Harris
Orange Moon
Aziza Barnes
Bag Lady: The Yam Remix
LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs
Time’s A Wastin’
Alexis Pauline Gumbs
It’s Halfway Through the School Year (After “Green Eyes” By Erykah Badu)
Treasure Shields Redmond
UNPROMPTED, BUT ON-TIME
a king ailey on ery corner
avery r. young
From The Lineage of A Kneegrow Series
Hello, My Name Is… (2012)
Hello, My Name Is… (2012)
Hello, My Name Is… (2012)
I Will Become The Kneegrow (2016)
The Lineage of A Kneegrow Pt. 1 (2010)
Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle
A Genealogy of Roses & Other Names
M or a Chemical Equation for Dismemberment
A Body of Work: SPINE
A Body of Work: HEAD(ER)
Chaun Webster
from The Black & White Sonnet Series
giovanni singleton
Scores
Davu Seru
Place from Where My Mother Was Taken
But I Can’t
Marion Hall
from RE•ÄL’
Darrel Alejandro Holnes & Joseph Malfettone
In Blackblues There Is This We
Lillian-Yvonne Bertram
from Undex
M. NourbeSe Philip
Dollar Straight/Dollar Box
Jonah Mixon-Webster
Ti Ador(n)o
Shayla Lawson
from Olio Notebooks
Tyehimba Jess
from r-a-g
Yolanda Wisher
Not Just Many Bodies of Water…
Julie Ezelle Patton
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