The debate surrounding trendy art in Africa has been all the trend both inside Africa and out of doors the continent from the beginning of the century till the last decade of the XX century. We document and disseminate untold stories that breakthrough stereotypes and reveal a strong need amongst artists, curators, researchers, organisations to proceed to trade and be inspired by other’s efforts to promote free inquiry and dialogue, as good testimonies to the worth of cultural trade and the power of diversity.

As curator Pablo León de la Barra has written, contemporary artwork that confronts the failure of modernism usually does so by evaluating the movement’s storied past with current neoliberal equivalents.” On this part, artists tackle modernism’s disjointed legacy by exploring the cut up between its lofty ideals and its imperfect realities.