Note: Catalog from an exhibition organized by Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, held at the Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, September 1, 2017-March 24, 2018; National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, May 9-September 3, 2018; and Fowler Museum, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, October 21, 2018-February 10, 2019 , Includes bibliographical references , Acknowledgments / Kathleen Harleman, Prita Meier and Allyson Purpura , Guest foreword / His Excellency Ambassador Robinson Njeru Githae , Provocations from the coast: toward a networked history of Swahili Coast Arts / Prita Meier and Allyson Purpura , At home, at sea: onboard a dhow in the Western Indian Ocean / Nidhi Mahajan , Through the Black Country, the sources of the Thames around the Great Shires of Lower England and down the Severn River to the Atlantic Ocean / Allan deSouza , The Waraqa: the biography of an obligation / Fahad Bishara , From shore to shore: people, places, and objects between the Swahili Coast and Lake Tanganyika / Stephen J. Rockel , Thoughts on navigating Swahili horizons / Edward A. Alpers , The Sultana in New York: a Zanaibari vessel between two worlds / Jeremy Prestholdt , The "Colonial Moment" in the lives of objects from the Swahili Coast / Sarah Longair , The many narratives of the Kiti cha enzi: unresolved strands of dispersal and meaning around the Indian Ocean / Nancy Um , Reflections on the artistry and history of Swahili carved doorframes in the collection of the Lamu Museum / Athman Hussein , Plural semiotic visions on the Swahili Coast / Janet McIntosh , Swahili permutations: ngoma and identity in the Lamu Archipelago / Rebecca Gearhart Mafazy , Beyond consumption: aesthetic glorious deeds and the generation of translocal society on the Swahili Coast / Paola Ivanov , On the mimetic qualities of bowls on the medieval Swahili Coast / Jeffrey Fleisher , Beyond the betweens: the Swahili Coast as sensed from the hinterland / Allen F. Roberts , Cloth's many waterways: Indian Ocean textiles and the deep histories of exchange / Pedro Machado , The art of the trade: merchant and production networks of kanga cloth in the colonial era / MacKenzie Moon Ryan , The inscribed object: the textures and textuality of writing in Eastern Africa / Ann Biersteker , Photography as a wish-fulfilling machine: photo studios on the East African Coast / Heike Behrend , The Swahili world: where the horizons meet / Abdul Sheriff , Checklist of the exhibition ; Contributor biographies.

Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-232) and index , Remembering Bill Siegmann , Forests in the imagination of the Upper Guinea coast , Extending the stage : photography and Sande intitiates in the early twentieth century , "By their fruits you will know them" : Sande mask carvers identified , Spirits from the forest : Dan masks in performance and everyday life , Brass casting in Liberia , Ritual recycling : modern uses of ancient stone sculptures in the Upper Guinea forest region , William Siegmann, advocate for connoisseurship , Catalogue of objects , Appendix : A historiography of the term nòwo

Note: The eyes of understanding - Kongo Minkisi , Resonance, transformation and rhyme - the art of Renée Stout

Note: Dt. Ausg. u.d.T.: Geary, Christraud M.: Mandu Yenu. - Franz. Ausg. u.d.T.: Geary, Christraud M.: Mandou Yenou