An International Collaboration

The exhibition, which originated at the Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, was organized in collaboration with an interdisciplinary advisory team of specialists working in sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa, and Europe. The exhibition includes major loans from the Ahmed Baba Institute of Higher Learning and Islamic Research, the Direction Nationale du Patrimoine Culturel, L’institut des sciences humaines de Bamako, and the Musée National, all in Mali, the Ministry of Culture and Communication and the Bank Al-Maghrib Museum in Morocco; and the National Commission for Museums and Monuments in Nigeria. The Aga Khan Museum has contributed several artworks to this international collaborative venture, which after its residence in Toronto will travel to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art in Washington, D.C. A version of the exhibition will be displayed in Mali, Morocco, and Nigeria after its North American run.