Introduction
Forming a field: colonial collecting, racial omissions, and national rivalries
Celebrating form: from primitive to primitivism
Creating visibility and value: photography and its effects
Discovering the African artist: tradition and tribality in the post-Cold War era
Acknowledging the contemporary: new forms, new actors
Extending the horizon: Africa in the Americas
Intervening the canon: the postmodern, the popular, and the authentic
Challenging representation: postcolonial critique and curation
Undoing the empire: duress, defiance, and decolonial futures
Epilogue.