Constructing Consciousness: Diasporic Remembrances and Imagining Africa in Late Modernity (Critical Essay‪)‬

Abstract Several simultaneous aesthetic movements have emerged in the African Diaspora that critically explore and reference Africa to address the questions of 'history, migrations and trans-national practices'. This paper critically examines some of these recent processes of deploying and displaying particular African aesthetic forms in North American museums to raise questions about the re-telling of Africa's past in the Western museum.