AFRICAN ART, the ARAK Collection, artist and artwork selection by Nneoma Angela Okorie, with contributions by Barnabas Ticha Mubhuti and Nneoma Angela Okorie

319pp., colour illus., hardback, Skira, Milan, 2025

ISBN: 9788857253480

The ARAK Collection is housed in Doha, Qatar. ARAK is an acronym for the name of the collector, AdbulRahman AlKhelaifi. 

Artists represented include Dumisani Mabaso, David Koloane, Kagiso Patrick Mautloa, Lehlogonolo Mashaba, Durant Sihlali, Mongezi Ncaphayi, Samuel Oyebode, Zolile Phetshane, Pule Satsoma, Angelique Bougaard, Thina Dube, Mashir Kresenshun, Manyatsa Monyamane, Duduzile Dudubloom More, Odirile Khune Motsiri, Bambo Sibiya, Zenáeca Singh. Shakes Temban, Eli Kobeli, Asanda Kupa, Joe Maseko, Phoshoko David Mogano, Xolile Mtakatya, Natasha Mulundu, Velaphi George Mzimba, Frank Ross, Malibongwe Shangase, Gerald Tabata from South Africa; Daniel Chimurure, Isheanesu Dondo, Ronald Mutemeri and Sky Salanje from Zimbabwe; Nelly Guambe, Siswe Khoza and Mario Pedro Soares from Mozambique; Aktofel Ilovu, Maria Mbereshu, Elizabeth Shinana and Rudolf Seibeb from Namibia; Banele Khoza from Eswatini; Samson Mini from Lesotho, and Thebe Phetogo from Botswana.

Ashraf Jamal is a Senior Research Associate in the Visual Identities in Art & Design Research Centre, University of Johannesburg, and a board member of the ARAK Collection. He is co-author of Art in South Africa: The future present; co-editor of Indian Ocean Studies: Social, cultural and political perspectives; and author of Predicaments of Culture in South Africa; In the World: Essays on South African art, and Strange Cargo: Essays on art.

Nneoma Angela Okorie is a curator, writer and researcher based in Accra, Ghana.

Barbara Ticha Muvhuti is an art historian and writer, and member of the RIT research project of The Fletcher School at Tufts University, USA.