ABSTRACT
The second part of this special issue brings together five scholarly articles and four essays which continue the discussion about photography in Africa begun by the articles and interviews included in the first part and published in March of 2014 (volume 40, issue 1). In the introduction to the March issue, we made the argument that while we live in a world saturated with images, not all images are equally visible. It is only when photographs are activated that they become “moving objects” – images that, as Azoulay (2008) notes, affect us and circulate through time and space. Photographs are activated when they are read with a certain active attention, and when they are allowed to unsettle the world and its many visual iterations.
