The African Sniper Reader Author:Simon Njami, Olu Oguibe, Oldadele Bamgboye, Loulou Cherinet, Kendell Geers, Yinka Shonibare, Mounir Fatmi, Lisa Brice, Tracey Rose, Kay Hassan, Berni Searle, Moshekwa Langa, William Kentridge, N'Dilo Mutima, Aime Ntakiyica, Soly Cisse, Toma Muteba Luntumbue This anthology emerged from a series of solo exhibitions by Kendell Geers, Olu Oguibe, Oldadala Bamgboya, Mounir Fatmi, and Loulou Cherinet--all artists with connections to Africa and living abroad. Reaching beyond the dialectic of difference typical of so many exhibitions of "non-Western" artists, this collection by a 21st-century generation (a... more »ll participants are between ages 35 and 42) aims to construct a new definition of contemporary African positions. These essays here are written by a diverse group of artists, writers, educators, and critics, including Cameroonian Curator, Simon Njami and Olu Oguibe, Associate Professor of Art and African American Studies at the University of Connecticut« less