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Course name
African Art
Institution
Pace University
Instructor
Sophia Kitlinski
Wikipedia Expert
Brianda (Wiki Ed)
Subject
Art History
Course dates
2023-09-09 00:00:00 UTC – 2023-12-18 23:59:59 UTC
Approximate number of student editors
22


This course is an introduction to the visual arts of West, Central, East, and Southern Africa, from the Nubians in the Nile Valley to the Yoruba people in Nigeria and the Kuba people in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The course will provide an overview of the range of artistic expression among selected ethnic and cultural groups. Diverse media, including wood, ivory, and stone sculpture, metalwork, ceramics, and textiles, will be studied within their social and cultural contexts. The course will examine the everyday and ceremonial uses of art objects, their religious use such as in rites of passage and initiation, funerary and other rituals, and ancestral cults, as well as the social functions of art objects (including bodily adornment and clothing) as expressions of gender roles, systems of hierarchy, methods of social control, and the power of kingship. For their Wikipedia articles, students will create or expand Wikipedia articles related to 20th- and 21st-century African artists and cultural movements.

Student Assigned Reviewing
Moram Hassan Lola Keyezua Georges Adéagbo, Gideon Appah
Ab36761p Wole Lagunju Omar Ba, Cyrus Kabiru
Riapace20. Virginia Chihota [[1]], Wole Lagunju
Km79358n Cyrus Kabiru Dumile Feni, [[2]]
Dihstortion Dawit Abebe Anawana Haloba, Mwangi Hutter
Jometcalf13579 Clay Apenouvon Wim Botha, Lola Keyezua
Ssimmons05 Anawana Haloba Rachidi Bissiriou, Abdoulaye Konaté
Jnaidoo03 Dumile Feni Clay Apenouvon, Virginia Chihota
Nariyahg Mwangi Hutter [Feni/11098540/Dumile Feni.aspx], Stephen Kapata
Avlain Rachidi Bissiriou Kofi Antubam, Dawit Abebe
Alicenev05 Stephen Kapata Moshekwa Langa, Georges Adéagbo
Gabbypace Gideon Appah Omar Ba, Cyrus Kabiru
SushiKiddo23 Georges Adéagbo Gideon Appah, [[3]]
Deborah Kehnny Kofi Antubam Wole Lagunju, Dumile Feni
Ld61305n Moshekwa Langa [[4]], Anawana Haloba
CoumbaS Omar Ba Mwangi Hutter, Wim Botha
Dylan Reddish Abdoulaye Konaté Lola Keyezua, Rachidi Bissiriou
YogurtBear123 Georges Adéagbo Abdoulaye Konaté, Clay Apenouvon
Slightlyplus Ndidi Emefiele Virginia Chihota, Dumile Feni
YL14663p Wim Botha Stephen Kapata, Kofi Antubam