Art Moves Africa – Retracing Roots and Tracing New Routes: Mobility and Touring in North Africa

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Methodology
2.2
Limitations
1.
The study is of course not exhaustive.
It namely does not cover the
complex problematics of travel to/
from rural areas. It concentrates on
capital cities, which are the locales most likely to
be covered by AMA grants. Further study is necessary
to offer a more comprehensive perspective
on mobility to/from other large cities in the region
as well as rural areas.
2.
The term “North Africa” has an unstable meaning
(see Section 2.1) and as such the scope of the study
does not capture all the realities that the term may
refer to. For example, this study does not cover
Sudan (covered in the 2012 and 2015 studies on
East Africa).
3.
Research was conducted in French and English. As
such, it is possible that certain potential interlocutors
were not reached and that information was not
identified or included. One interlocutor declined to
grant an interview because it would not be conducted
in Arabic.
4.
Interviews were not always completed in full due
to time considerations. The questionnaire was
long and conversations were very often rich and
wide-ranging. Certain questions were often excluded
in the interest of capturing the most essential
information and respecting interlocutors’ time.
5.
Research was desk-based rather than field-based.
As such it was not possible to meet respondents
simultaneously, nor to visit spaces, studios, venues,
etc.