ABSTRACT
Africa's encounter with modernity differed from Western experiences, and manifestations of modernism thus developed along different trajectories on the African continent than in other parts of the world, in particular in Europe. It is problematic to view modernism as a purely Western construct, as any application of modernism on African artistic and aesthetic practice would then indicate a Eurocentric approach to understanding this time period in Africa, a foreign construct forcefully applied to a continent with its own very specific historiographies.
