Introduction : rethinking beauty / Sarah Nuttall -- Picasso, Africa and the schemata of difference / Simon Gikandi -- Variations on the beautiful in Congolese worlds of sound / Achille Mbembe -- Two thoughts on drawing beauty / William Kentridge -- The place of beauty : reflections on Elaine Scarry and Zakes Mda / Rita Barnard -- Quelle Liberte : art, beauty and the grammars of resistance in Douala / Dominique Malaquais -- Fresh stories / Pippa Stein -- The love of the body : Ousmane Sow and beauty / Els van der Plas -- Inheritance / Mark Gevisser -- Let's eat : banquet aesthetics and social epicurism / Celestin Monga -- Let's cook! / Francoise Verges -- On the slipperiness of food / Cheryl-Ann Michael -- Afro-aesthetics in Brazil / Patricia Pinho -- Yoruba aesthetics and trans-Atlantic imaginaries / Kamari Maxine Clarke -- Urban imaging : the Friche waiting to happen / Rodney Place -- Things ugly : Ghanaian popular painting / Michelle Gilbert.

Two stories : old man with garden at the rear end of time and the fat Indian girl / Mia Couto -- Seeing the familiar : notes on Mia Couto / Isabel Hofmeyr.