Zanele Muholi Hail the Dark Lioness Pekinghandicraft the most eminent nineteenth-century African-American

the most eminent nineteenth-century African-American

Each chapter presents artisans in their home countries

and anyone who views a home as more than four walls

the authors chronicle the Black presence in premodern Europe

Zanele Muholi Hail the Dark Lioness Pekinghandicraft the most eminent nineteenth-century African-AmericanZanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness includes one hundred self portraits created by one of the most powerful visual activists of our time. In each of the images, Muholi drafts material props from her immediate environment in an effort to reflect her journey, explore her own image and possibilities as a black woman in todays global society, and most important to speak emphatically in response to contemporary and historical rascisms.