Editorial: Read On and Be Challenged!

Abstract

This issue of IJELE (but should one really write ‘issue,’ as opposed say to ‘release’ when one is speaking of electronic media?) expands further IJELE’s commitment to make available a comparatively cost-free forum for both the presentation of a variety of new art (including architecture and performance for example), and for the publication of new, serious, rigorous critiques and scholarship on arts that are connected in some way to cultures out of/in Africa. The essays in this release range from Irbouh’s historicization and critique of art education in colonial-era Morocco, to Carol Boyce Davies’s recentering of women as critical (and often unaccounted) producers of Carnival in Bahia (Brazil). In between them (thematically) lie articles such as Nkiru Nzegwu’s on the representational spatialities of an important oeuvre of Africa’s modern art (an essay that does also pay attention in part to dance), Sabine Marschall’s insightful history of mural art in 20th century and new millennium South Africa, and Charles Peterson’s original engagement with the textuality of American Blues.