David Hammons’s Sheep Raffl e at Dak’Art 2004: Reading Black Art through Léopold Sédar Senghor’s Négritude

In March 2004, I was invited by my friend Salah Hassan to write an article on David Hammons’s contribution to the Dak’Art Biennale.1 I then invited the artist to lunch in the Village, in New York City, to talk about his installation. Soon after we sat down in Il Buco restaurant, David informed me that he was going to do a sheep raffl e as his contribution to Africa’s biggest art show.