‘I like pushing boundaries’: Yinka Shonibare on his landmark art show in Madagascar
23 Apr 2025
The central attraction of Shonibare’s exhibition is his immersive installation 'The African Library', which contains about 6,000 books that are displayed in African wax prints. Created in 2018, the library is an archive of celebration of anticolonial revolutionary leaders, such as Nelson Mandela and Kwame Nkrumah, but also of musicians and sports stars of differing generations such as Margaret Singana, Smockey and Patrick Vieira. The intellectual project behind the library is to recalibrate our understanding of independence history and how African stories are still being written today.
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