...Secretariat Dak'Art, Biennale l'Art africain contemporain, 19 ave. Albert Sarraut, B.P. 3865, Dakar, Senegal

afrik'arts is an intellectually challenging and handsome new magazine that blazes paths and fills some gaps. Its editors seek to provide publishing opportunities to complement the artistic events of Dak'Art, the Biennale of Contemporary African Art--hence the "k'a" in the magazine's name. As Dak'Art Secretary General Ousseynou Wade explains in his preface to the first issue of afrik'arts, "each edition of the event that is Dak'Art is an occasion to nourish debate about artistic expression in Africa by interrogating its [that is, the Biennale's] history and its present reality [and] by analyzing its potential and its stakes in the preservation of diversity. To prolong and deepen such debate seems a necessity today--a mission to take up" through afrik'arts. As stressed by Mme Safiatou Ndiaye Diop (Senegalese Minister of Culture and Historical Patrimony) in her own preface, this "new tool for the promotion of African creation" will welcome reflections produced in Africa and the rest of the world--with a distinct accent on the former.

The first three issues of afrik'arts are an auspicious beginning to such an ambitious undertaking. The magazine has a large "coffee-table" format, just a little smaller than that...

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