Introduction : Africa and the ambivalence of seeing / Patricia Hayes and Gary Minkley Ambivalent mediations : photographic desire, anxiety, and knowledge in nineteenth-century Central Africa / Isabelle de Rezende Empty photographs : ethnography and the lacunae of African history / Patricia Hayes Unstable forms : photography, race, and the identity document in South Africa / Ingrid Masondo The pass photograph and the intimate photographic event in South Africa / Gary Minkley Photographic genres and alternate histories of independence in Mozambique / Drew Thompson Photography, mass violence, and survivors : the Cassinga Massacre of 1978 / Vilho Shigwedha Images of ambivalence : photography in the making of Omhedi, Northern Namibia / Napandulwe Shiweda The profane and the prophetic at a South African beach / Phindi Mnyaka Photographing Asọ Ebì : of surfacism and digitality / Okechukwu Nwafor Boko Haram insurgency and a new mode of war in Nigeria / George Emeka Agbo Mirrors and waters : the practice and the visual in Beninese Mami Wata cults / Jung Ran Forte Coda : an expanded milieu / Patricia Hayes. |