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	Essays on Ernest Mancoba from the catalogue of In the name of all humanity the African spiritual expression of Ernest Mancoba. ERNEST MANCOBA, IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE by Dr Z Pallo Jordan HAND IN HAND IN A TAPESTRY OF STARS by Elza Miles ERNEST MANCOBA, A NEW AFRICAN ARTIST by Ntongela Masilela ERNEST MANCOBA’S DIALOGUE WITH AN ANCIENT FUTURE Parts 1 & 2 by Bridget Thompson RENEGOTIATING UBUNTU by Glenn Ujebe Masokoane FUNERAL ORATION AND EXHIBITION SPEECH by Wonga Mancoba Catalogue can be ordered by contacting enquiries@artubuntu.org. Further reading Araeen, Rasheed. 2002. A challenge for Africa: an open letter to African thinkers, theorists and art historians. Artthrob News. http://artthrob.co.za/04june/news/araeen.html Araeen, Rasheed. 2003. Dak’Art 1992-2002: The problems of representation, contextualisation, and critical evaluation in contemporary African art as presented by the Dakar Biennale. Third Text, 17(1):93- 106. Araeen, Rasheed. 2005. Modernity, Modernism, and Africa’s place in the history of art of our age. Third Text, 19(4):411-417. Araeen, R. 2004. The success and the failure of black arts, Third Text, 18:2. Barron, Chris; 2002. Ernest Mancoba sculptor of the Black Madonna. Sunday Times – Obituaries. 3 November. Clewing, Ulrich. 2003. The unconscious motion of hues. House of world cultures. http://www.culturebase.net/artist.php?1442 Cotter, H. 2002. From the ferment of liberation comes a revolution in African art. New York Times, Sunday 17 February. Dhlomo, H.I.E. 1939 Why study tribal dramatic form, Traansvaal Native Education Quarterly, March 1939. Diop, C.A. 1978. Black Africa - The economic and cultural basis for a federal State. New York. Lawrence Hill. Ekpo, Denis. 1996. How Africa misunderstood the west, the failure of anti-west radicalism and postmodernity. Third Text, 35:Summer. Ekpo, D. 2005. The abortion of Africa’s modernity, Third Text, 19:4, July 2005. Enwezor, O. (ed). 2001. The short century: Independence and liberation movements in Africa 1945-1994. New York: Prestel. Gikandi, S. 2003-2004. The short century: On modernism and nationalism. New Frontiers, 51:Winter. Jorn, Asger. (compiler). 2001. Folk Art in Greenland. Cologne: Walther King. Masilela, Ntongela. 2004. New Negro modernity and new African modernity. Paper presented at the‘Black Atlantic: literatures, histories, cultures’ forum, held in Zurich, January. 1-72. Masilela, Ntongela. (no date) The New African Movement. http://www.pitzer.edu/new.african.movement/general/african.htm Miles, E. 1995. Ernest Mancoba: A resource book. Johannesburg: Johannesburg Art Gallery. Miles, Elza. 1994. Lifeline out of Africa. Cape Town: Human & Rousseau. Miles, Elza. 1997. Land and Lives. Cape Town: Human & Rousseau. Miles, Elza. 2003. Ernest Mancoba an Appreciation. Journal of Contemporary African Art 18. Miles, Elza. 1994. L’ Ancetre – Archives Johannesburg Art Gallery. June. Obrist, Hans Ulrich. 2003. Ernest Mancoba: an interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist. Journal of Contemporary African Art, 18 (Spring/Summer). Oguibe, Olu. 2002. Appropriation as nationalism in modern African art. Third Text, 16(3):243-259. Oguibe, Olu. 2005. The true location of Ernest Mancoba’s modernism. Third Text, 19(4):419-426. Romanyshyn, Robert. 1984. The despotic eye: An illustration of Metabletic Phenomenology and its implications in The changing reality of modern man – Essays in honour of JH van den Berg, edited by D Kruger. Cape Town: Juta:87-109. Third Text. 2005. Modernity, Modernism, and Africa’s place in the history of art of our age. 19:4. Third Text. 2005. The true location of Ernest Mancoba’s modernism. 19:4. Thompson, Bridget. 2005. The African spiritual expression of Ernest Mancoba. Third Text, 19 (4): 420- 422. ^ top of page		more information His formative years The decision to leave Paris The Cobra movement Return to France Mancoba's philosophy Recognition Coming home Key events in Ernest Mancoba's life Further reading