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NkaJOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN ARTFOUNDED 1994FOUNDING PUBLISHEROkwui EnwezorEDITORSOkwui EnwezorSalah M. HassanChika Okeke-AguluASSOCIATE EDITORSSarah Adams • Carl Hazelwood • Nancy HynesDerek Conrad Murray • Sunanda SanyalCONSULTING EDITORSRory Bester • Isolde Brielmaier • Coco FuscoKendell Geers • Michael Godby • Elizabeth HarneyThomas Mulcaire • O. Donald Odita • Gilane TawadrosFrank UgiomohMANAGING EDITORJennifer Savran KellyADVISORY BOARDNorbert Aas • Florence Alexis • Rashid DiabManthia Diawara • Elsabet Giorgis • Freida Highdele jegede • Kellie Jones • Sandra KlopperDavid Koloane • Bongi Dhlomo Mautloa • Ali MazruiGerardo Mosquera • Helen Evans RamsaranIbrahim El Salahi • Janet Stanley • Obiora UdechukwuGavin Younge • Octavio ZayaCover: GEORGE OSODI, Oil Pipelines.A young boy walks between oil pipelines in Okrika, Nigera.From the Oil Rich Niger Delta series, 2006, a 200-imageinstallation. The Margulies Collection and the collectionof the Neue Galerie, Kassel.Courtesy the artist and Z Photographic Ltd.4 FROM THE EDITORChika Okeke-Agulu6 STEVE MCQUEEN’S GIARDINIA FAIRY TALET. J. Demos14 HISTORY IN OUSMANE SEMBÈNE’SGUELWAAR AND CEDDOAwam Amkpa and Gunja SenGuptaCONTENTSNUMBER 27, 201022 THE PROBLEM IS MOREMENTAL THAN ECONOMICOUSMANE SEMBÈNEIN CONVERSATION WITHSAMBA GADJIGONka wishes to acknowledge support for the publication of the journalthrough generous grants from the Andy Warhol Foundation for theVisual Arts, the Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development,The Hague, Netherlands, and David Hammons.Andy Warhol Foundation28 PALE REFLECTIONS ANDFABLES OF LIFEGEORGE OSODI’S “REAL PEOPLE”OF THE NIGER DELTAFrank A. O. UgiomohNka is published by Duke University Presson behalf of Nka Publications.

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