In theory, this course is supposed to be a Comprehensive Survey of African Art, from prehistory to the present day. But it’s not going to be that. Africa is too vast, too diverse, too complex for us to explore its stories of contact with other cultures, stories of struggle, stories of redemption. along with our almost inevitably distorted views of what African people are and what they do, have transformed the continent and its peoples to the core. When we look at “African Art,” we are telling stories to ourselves. We must This course will examine some of those stories.