Wax Prints of the Sahel: Cloth Portraits of Contemporary African History

by Debra S. Boyd

Wax Prints of the Sahel features colour photographs that depict original commemorative cotton cloths. Messages written on the cloths serve a griot function that aims to entertain and to educate the reader-viewer. Each cloth illustrates how commemorative wax prints are a means of preserving African cultural history for future generations.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1569027382
• ISBN13: 9781569027387
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Africa World Press
• Length: 154 Pages