"This is a stimulating book, which covers much new material Scholarship on sub-Saharan Africa is very thinly theorized. Few scholars seem to have the range to make connections with art practice elsewhere and generally offer interpretations which struggle to get beyond ethnographic documentation. Few monographs engage with the wider debates. This book is an exception."
--John Mack, Professor, University of East Anglia (UK)

African Dream Machines takes African headrests out of the category of functional objects and into the more rarefied category of "art" objects. Styles...