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_{Posted on Thursday 16-8-2007}Africa Remix: Showing a modern Africa

_{A rouged and eye-linered woman, resplendent in straw hat, stilettos and multi-coloured trouser suit, looks back at us with a directness that is all the more disconcerting for the fact that "she" is not only a man, but black and African. While cross-dressing, nudity and eroticised self-dramatisation have been commonplace in Western art for centuries, we don't necessarily expect to encounter them in Africa – and certainly not combined in the work of one snake-hipped young man from the Central African Republic.}

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