The Limits of Alternative Africas

From Africa is a Country Sun Nov 16 2014, 14:24:56

Hard on the heels of an anti-climactic election season in the US punctuated by myopic views of the world and cataclysmic what-ifs, the resurgence of Nikolaj Cyon's counterfactual map of Africa circulating on the web last week was a welcome relief from realpolitik run amok. Cyon, a Swedish artist and self-proclaimed revolutionary, asks us to [...]

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