Art and architecture in postcolonial Africa This work examines the complexity of popular artistic culture in the era of African nationalism with a special focus on the influential independence era in Ghana. Discussed are architecture museum exhibitions political displays nationalist ideologies artistic practices and the intangible forms of art Provided by publisher Exhibiting Ghana: display documentary and spectacle in Ghana Displaying Asante: Asante ideology and alternative representations of the nation Imagining architecture: the structure of nationalism in Accra Imagining architecture II: treasure storehouses and constructions of Asante hegemony Envisioning Ujamaa: architecture of Dodoma and Dar es Salaam Reversing the gaze: exhibition postapartheid art and the politics of display Representations of the body in postcolonial Africa The gaze tradition and African art history Envoi: expressive culture and performativity in the diaspora