Towards an art history of precontemporary Africa. Preliminary thoughts for a state-of-the-art assessment

Interest in African art developed at several moments during the 20th century and it continues to evolve through these early years of the present century. Generally speaking, this interest spread first in Europe and in North America, but subsequently in Africa. In all of these places, traders and collectors, and occasionally museums, took part in redefining the subject. In France, since President Macron’s speech on 28 November 2017 at the University of Ouaga 1 – Joseph Ki-Zerbo in Ouagadougou—...