
OKWUI ENWEZOR
THE EASE WITH WHICH, given the chance, he repeatedly accomplished what in retrospect seemed so obviously right and necessary as to be self-evident may have been received as a gesture of contempt by those who lacked the opportunity or the spine to have taken the initiative before him. But I know he did not intend it that way; he simply saw what needed to be done and did it: noticed that there was no venue for calling attention to the work of postcolonial African artists, and so started an art magazine that did; noticed that so-called international exhibitions were actually self-aggrandizing vanity