This pioneering history examines the major themes and accomplishments in African art from the past fifty years,achieving an impressive balance between the critical re-examination of frequently discussed artists ,groups and workshops and the introduction of less publicised or more recent material. Postcolonial art in Africa has built seamlessly upon already existing structures in which the older ,precolonial and colonial genres of African art were made .It is in this sense ,and in the habits and attitudes of artists towards making art rather tan in any adherence to a particular