With over 270 photographs, Africa State of Mind is avibrant survey of contemporary image-makers, each ofwhom is forging unique visions of Africa that presentthe continent not simply as a physical place, but as apsychological state.Across four thematic sections Hybrid Cities, InnerLandscapes, Zones of Freedom, and Myth and Memory Ekow Eshun looks at the modern image-making practiceand explores how African photographers individuallyperceive and engage with ideas of Africanness'. This isa timely survey of life in the continent's sprawling citiesand ever-changing landscapes, which also addressesthe legacies of colonialism and postcolonialism, andquestions of gender, sexuality and identity. What doesit mean to be African'?For all with a connection with contemporaryphotography and a desire to see the cultural focusshifted in the post-colonial age, Africa State of Mindis an essential introduction to the visual output of acontinent on the rise. Africa captured by a new generation of home-grownphotographers' Wallpaper* A kaleidoscopic view of Africa' Aesthetica