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A museum within a museum: Meschac Gaba’s interactive show Museum of Contemporary African Art at the Tate in London.
AFRICAN ART

Triumph for African modernism

The seminal exhibition by Meschac Gaba at Tate Modern dispels ­notions that African art is about the traditional or ­ethnographic.

  • Jeremy Kuper
5 min read
Sudanese artist Ibrahim el-Salahi poses for a photograph in front of his painting entitled ‘Reborn Sounds of Childhood Dreams’ at the Tate Modern in London.
MESCHAC GABA

Tate Modern opens doors to African visionaries

Exhibitions of works by artists from Sudan and Benin have reflected a step change towards Tate’s more globalised view of modern art.

  • Jonathan Jones
3 min read
JESUS CHRIST

Architecture of the everyday

Africa’s reigning king of the avant-garde Meschac Gaba combines the outlandish with the mundane, writes Percy Zvomuya.

  • Percy Zvomuya
5 min read