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Critical Interventions
Journal of African Art History and Visual Culture
Volume 13, 2019 - Issue 1: Twenty-first Century Contemporary Art in Ghana
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Black Stars – Contextualizing the Rise of blaxTARLINES: Contemporary art of the late 20th to the early 21st Centuries in Ghana

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