Bio

Andrea Frohne is assistant professor at Ohio University in the School of Art and the School of Interdisciplinary Arts, which carries a Ph.D. track in African Arts and Literatures.

Abstract

Representing sports in contemporary African art: Global flows through Pan-Africanism, Transnationalism, and Colonialism
Representations of sports in artworks by Julie Mehretu, Kwesi Owusu-Ankomah, and Yinka Shonibare express national identity, transnational flows, and colonial networks.  A linking of the three artists’ works illustrates a complex and cyclical trajectory of politics of globalization as exemplified in the sports world.