With over 300 photographs by more than fifty photographers, Africa Stateof Mind is a mesmerizing introduction to the creative figures at the heartof one of the world's most dynamic photography scenes. Gathering togetherthe work of an emergent generation of photographers from across Africa andits diaspora, Africa State of Mind is both a summation of new photographicpractice from the last decade and an exploration of the ways in whichcontemporary photographers from the continent are exploring ideas of Africanness' to reveal Africa to be a psychological space as much as aphysical territory a state of mind as much as a geographical place.D ispensing with the western colonial view of Africa in purely geographicor topographic terms, Ekow Eshun presents Africa State of Mind in four parts:Hybrid Cities; Zones of Freedom; Myth and Memory; and Inner Landscapes.Each theme, introduced by a text by Eshun, presents selections of work by anew wave of African photographers who are looking both outward and inward:capturing life among the sprawling cities and multitudinous conurbations ofthe continent, turning the legacy of the continent's history into the sourceof resonant new myths and dreamscapes and exploring questions of gender,sexuality and identity. Each of the photographers seeks to capture theexperience of what it means, and how it feels, to live in Africa today.