111pp., colour illus., hardback, London, 2024
Published to accompany the exhibition, The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure, National Portrait Gallery, London, 2024.
Artists include Wangechi Mutu (Kenyan-American), Michael Armitage (Kenyan-British), Toyin Ojih Odutola (Nigerian-born, New York-based) and Godfried Donkor (British-Ghanaian).
Writer, curator and journalist Ekow Eshun is former Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts. His books include In the Black Fantastic, The New African Portraiture, Black Gold of the Sun and Africa State of Mind.