Nov 12th 2019

Pax Africana: The Southern Question

@ Smart Museum of Art

5550 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637

Opening Tuesday, November 12th, from 5:30PM - 7:30PM

Join Hlonipha Mokoena, PhD as she reflects on Pax Africana: The Southern Question exploring how Meleko Mokgosi’s large-scale paintings open up novel histories of southern Africa’s contested political ideas and traditions.

Mokoena is currently an Associate Professor at WISER (Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research) at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.

This program is co-presented by the African Studies Workshop and Smart Museum at the University of Chicago.

Image: Meleko Mokgosi, Bread, Butter, and Power, 2018, Oil paint on canvas. Courtesy the artist and Honor Fraser, Los Angeles. Photo © Monica Nouwens.

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